Sally said: Blake doesn't lash out *physically* in anger (verbally, he can dismember with the best of them) because he does have that ability to divorce the action from the emotion. One of my own personal fanonical rules - "Blake Would Never, Ever, Ever so much as Raise a Hand to Avon. And Avon Knows It,"

• was a straight reaction to a string of fanfic where Blake was portrayed as

endlessly losing his temper and beating up on Avon, because I simply don't see him ever doing that to *any* of his crewmates

While I feel that his personality is such he would not cuff them about, there is also a very pragmatic reason for him to refrain from violence. He leads by their consent; there is nothing to keep them from mutiny should he behave badly. And even if the entire crew thought he was justified in kicking Avon's backside, Blake would know there would, sooner or later, be a misfire of a weapon, or a teleport accident.