>And yeah, what a legacy. He's ridiculously chill for a guy in a
>martial arts vengeance flick.

Well, he's not sure about cold, but he does believe revenge is a dish that is best served methodically, and like Paul Masson, he will sell no wine before its time. I mean, look at what happened to Ryu when he went after that guy what killed his sensei before he'd unlocked all his supermoves. :)

More seriously: As was mentioned obliquely in an early episode, he and Rose actually had a significant falling-out over the whole idea that he was being cultivated as an anti-Bison weapon once. He seems to be down with it in "The Contract", but at some point toward the end of high school he decided that was a truly daft lifepath to be on and essentially bagged the whole thing to go to college instead, and he and Rose didn't speak for several years.

While in college he met Zoner, and they ended up starting Trailing Edge Air Lines. There came a point early in TE's history when something we have not yet seen rather woke him up to the reality of what a world without, at the very least, some check on Bison's ambitions would be like. At that point he sort of got back to work, as it were - but he very deliberately works not to get obsessive about it. It could be argued that he's a bit in denial about it, but he would prefer to think he's taking a Zen approach. One thing he's picked up from some of his colleagues over the years, and that Rose has never been as good at as you would really hope for in a sensei, is that you have to let these moments arrive when they're ready, then exist in them.

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