If you read the link I've posted in another comment, along with anything else he's posted on his blog, you'll soon realize he quite literally thought he was a d

If you read the link I've posted in another comment, along with anything else he's posted on his blog, you'll soon realize he quite literally thought he was a demigod reincarnated and that such mad riptides surely couldn't affect him due to all of the pure manliness he exuded.