asexualizing:

despite being made into a monster for his love, despite being cheated on by his closest friends, despite being shunned from society by the same people who once admired him for ever daring to question society, james flint still believes in the inherent goodness of people. he believes giving power to the people is the only way to change the world. he believes that taking away what hurts people will also take away the veil of nastiness these people have put up. he does what he does for people. even though humanity has given him so many reasons to hate it, he doesn’t. he believes in people. he cares for people.

he told thomas that a man trying to change the world fails for everyone else in it, and i think falling for thomas and thomas’s love and their shared desire for a revolution, had turned that thought not to an obstacle but a solution. to change the world you need the people in it. and for that to happen, you have to consistently, persistently love people.