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I really don't think it's all that deep personally, but it's a nice outlook on the situation with the whole PTSD thing, never even considered that myself. Though my take away from the Laurie Jared situation was that Jared just SAID he missed for the sake of playing an "oopsie I killed your friend instead" card. I'd wager he DID have PTSD only BEFORE he got powers due to the Jake abuse and our own. But now that he DOES have powers I think he felt overly confident trying to taunt us cause he knew Charlie and Cole were backing him. Laurie dies, cool; no reason for him to push getting further under your skin (i.e doesn't attack), but if Laurie lives suddenly things aren't going his way anymore so he wants to still piss you off SOMEhow (i.e attacks you, lash out history).My thing about it was that he claimed that we were lucky that he missed when in reality, he never intended to hit us. In both scenarios, he claimed that the MC was definitely his first target but he somehow hits Laurie. That's why I said it meant one of two things. Either his aim was actually trash and he somehow hit Laurie in the neck. Or, he was actually scared to attack the MC but pretended like he was always the target when that wasn't the case. The MC is huge compared to the others, the chance of you missing him but hitting the smaller target in Laurie is slim to none, especially since he hit him the 2nd time around.
The only time he has the courage to actually attack the MC is after we used our power to fix Laurie. If Laurie dies, he does nothing afterwards but trash talks. The MC isn't the weakest amongst Laurie, Deryl and Alice. So after hitting Laurie, why would he suddenly attack the MC and not Alice, for example? She's the 2nd weakest there. That's why I think he never intended to attack the MC first and only tried it when he thought he used up his power. Because, without us saving Laurie, he doesn't dare try to attack anymore.
Me personally, I think Jared's suffering from PTSD because of all the bullying the MC did to him. Like you said, his goal was probably to target the weak links of the group but he's boasting about how we're lucky he missed when he probably was scared to attack the MC in the first place.
I'm honestly not worried about him, personally. I feel like it would go against the established rules for us to worry about a Level 1 to Level 2 at most character. We're Level 3 now, we have that power. I don't think it should be trivialized by weaker characters being the exception to the rule. The gap has been fully formed and he should be insignificant to us. That's not being cocky or arrogant. That's being realistic about the growth we had and the gap that's been solidified by crossing that huge threshold. So unless he brute forced his way to level 3 somehow, the MC shouldn't really have to worry about him, in my opinion.
As much as I hate to say it Jared is actually "kind of" smart, he just cares very little about effort or interest enough for him to actually use his knowledge. If he wanted to hit us, he would've, but he wanted to get under our skin instead, which I also have to admit worked more so than anyone else in this game so far.