I think there was probably a time when Dan challenged the excesses of Rorschach's paranoia and propensity for tin-foil hat proselytizing, but at some point he just started ignoring it. I always imagine him as a little chibi owl, flapping his wings uselessly against the winds of crazy.
I'm still in the camp that Rorschach used to chatter like a magpie at Nite Owl, and that the crazier moments were mostly outweighed by his 'see how well read I am!' trivia dumps. So it was several years before Dan stopped thinking, Wait, what? No, that has to be a joke. The guy just spent 20 minutes analyzing Ozy's name in terms of the Shelley poem, there's no way he could honestly believe Communists are brainwashing the fetuses of unwed teenage mothers in the womb using pop music...
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Date: 2009-10-14 07:16 pm (UTC)I'm still in the camp that Rorschach used to chatter like a magpie at Nite Owl, and that the crazier moments were mostly outweighed by his 'see how well read I am!' trivia dumps. So it was several years before Dan stopped thinking, Wait, what? No, that has to be a joke. The guy just spent 20 minutes analyzing Ozy's name in terms of the Shelley poem, there's no way he could honestly believe Communists are brainwashing the fetuses of unwed teenage mothers in the womb using pop music...