...okay, so, this is not going to sound any less pulled out of my ass at all, but I came up with this theory in my head just now and I like it so it is going to be your answer.
Gus is Destruction's.
By which I mean, Gus was meant to be Destruction's, but Destruction abdicated his position before Gus' time came around. Still, there's a level on which Gus that knows he's missing *something*, and he tries to find it by absorbing information about the world. All that passion on unrelated geeky minutiae... in another universe, he would be focussed on finding new ways to make things burn, brighter and hotter and more completely than previous generations had imagined.
Shawn, poor guy, is Desire's, and you'd be forgiven for looking at their antics and thinking he and Gus are a matched pair. But what Gus is yearning for - in the hidden place where his soul was never fully finished - isn't in Desire's purview.
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Date: 2011-01-29 08:18 am (UTC)Gus is Destruction's.
By which I mean, Gus was meant to be Destruction's, but Destruction abdicated his position before Gus' time came around. Still, there's a level on which Gus that knows he's missing *something*, and he tries to find it by absorbing information about the world. All that passion on unrelated geeky minutiae... in another universe, he would be focussed on finding new ways to make things burn, brighter and hotter and more completely than previous generations had imagined.
Shawn, poor guy, is Desire's, and you'd be forgiven for looking at their antics and thinking he and Gus are a matched pair. But what Gus is yearning for - in the hidden place where his soul was never fully finished - isn't in Desire's purview.