Talk:Leonidas Flameheart/@comment-24262164-20140113173708/@comment-5726563-20140114055237

Kids are much more malleable, and can respond to tragedy better than adults sometimes. There have been many cases of adults emotionally broken, where the child takes over the care, both in real life and in various forms of fiction. Everyone has their own way of dealing with stuff. With some, they realize they need to protect the only family they have left, and thus shut off the feelings, so as to be able to function. This is not healthy in the slightest, but it is an effective reason.

Sort of like cauterizing a wound. It takes care of bleeding, so you can focus on the task at hand, but if you aren't careful you could get infected, and die much more easily than the wound alone. So this is effectively a stopgap measure. It takes care of the problem for now, but you are going to have to be careful and take care of the problem for good eventually, or it will tear you apart. It may be years down the line, but it will come back eventually.