>>95927133
emotionally stunted doesn't mean they got no emotions, thoughts or opinions.
>most of the ones we hear and read about directly contradict this
because they're an exception and constrast against the others, you dumb bitch.
Main marine characters are usually fringe guys in some way or another. And even then, they're still autistic killing machines.
That's also why for more than 20 years it has become a trope to pair human women with inhuman Astartes.

You'd knew this if you had actually read SM stories instead of wiki shit or GW's shallow marketing and codex propaganda about how they are.