I always assumed that the Normandy thing was a silent protest, but more than I think of it being partially involuntarily and strong feeling being what makes him struggle with not vamping up, more I like the thought. I clicks. There is not that sense of stretching and twisting the info we have to make it somehow fit into the explanation. It does well with his mannerism, that small pause he often takes before reacting, and how he seems so detached when not mortal.
That would make his meds... mood stabilizers?
An interesting thought, and it would totally explain why Helen thought he probably had stopped taking them, keeping the situation in mind... Or they are just something to lessen the effect the moods have on him.
That would make his meds... mood stabilizers?
An interesting thought, and it would totally explain why Helen thought he probably had stopped taking them, keeping the situation in mind... Or they are just something to lessen the effect the moods have on him.
Anyway, this is from wikia.... looked pretty accurate to me.
[Cabal agents approach the corner and Helen pistol-whips one in the face. The second agent grabs her wrist and Tesla shoves him up a wall by the throat.]
TESLA: [deep voice] Leave her alone.
[Helen sees that Tesla’s eyes have gone black and his teeth are pointed as he raises a now-clawed hand to threaten the agent and growls. She turns to point her gun at Tesla instead of the agent.]
HELEN: Nikola, that’s enough!
[Tesla visibly relaxes, his eyes change back, and he throws the agent to the ground. Helen briefly tracks the agent’s fall before again aiming her gun at Tesla. Tesla chuckles and grins as he walks toward the wall nearer to Helen.]
TESLA: Well, that was exciting, huh?
HELEN: A little too much so. You haven’t stopped taking your medication, have you?
TESLA: No, no, no. I just, I just got a little excited. [briefly glances down at gun that Helen is still pointing at him] Come on, Helen, I don’t feed on humans. I made that vow long ago and I intend to keep it.
[Helen still looks frightened and suspicious, but lowers her gun.....]
My spin on the scene is -- Helen thinks Nikola has lost control with the Cabal guy and is afraid/distrustful of him. The medication helps him maintain control. But whether it's control over the emotions that cause him to vamp out or control over an urge to feed on humans I'm not sure. Feeding on humans must have been an issue in the past, because Nikola made a vow not to do it. Whether he actually did it or just wanted to, we're never told. It seems like Helen is afraid he might feed on her, because she continues to point the gun at him even after he's mostly calmed down. Only after he reminds her of his vow does she lower the gun. So the medication must be to help him control his actions during the transformation, including a desire to feed on humans. ???? This is starting to make my brain hurt.
his meds never came up again in good or bad... I think the most probable answer is that the line was included to hint that Nikola wasn't only an old friend but an old patient too. Apparently Nikola was supposed to stay dead after dear Johnny so kindly told him he had gone too far, so there was little reason for the writers to start waterproofing the whole Sanctuary vampire info that Nikola spoke in that ep... In a way it is a good thing, very inspiring for a ff writer... But yeah, I avoid these explanations, they aren't fun at all
Is it true that they didn't plan to have Tesla as a recurring character until they liked him so much in The Five? I think I vaguely remember MW or DK saying something like that, but I'm not positive.
But you have to remember we've never seen Nikola do that either, but I think he gets the urge to sometimes especially when he was first injected by the source blood. I do have the feeling that he HAS attacked someone before the medication and I wrote a fic about it, but I think it's not the same as is food source still. As far as attacking someone, I think that helped in having Johnny try to pin the Ripper murders on him which caused Tesla to be more guarded and restrained when they women started getting killed.
Was anything said on the show about John trying to pin the murders on him? Or was that just in your fanfic?
When I look back over what I've written it seems like I contradict myself all over the place, but it's just because I don't know the answer, from what we've been given. And I'm still not sure.
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