King Kong: The Eighth Wonder of the World
Cursed with Glorious Purpose for Jack Driscoll
First mate of the USS Venture. Driscoll suffers through past trauma due to surviving the attack on Pearl Harbour in 1941. His voice is somewhat gruff, due to closing himself off to others caused by the trauma, but becomes more open and gentle when his feelings for Anne Darrow develop.
You don’t like him either, huh? Good. For a minute, I thought I was the only one.
*scoffs* Frankly, Miss Darrow, all this butting into other people's business will do is eventually get you into a load of trouble. And furthermore, if you know what’s good for you, you’d do best to stay out of my way AND my business throughout the rest of this voyage, or else you’re going to regret it.
That’s putting it lightly… I could have killed someone… I almost risked everything we came here for. But… I just couldn’t bear the thought of what they might have done had we allowed them to take you.