>>39459061James can actually be pretty fucking scary when he gets serious as you realize just how much of James persona is pure fakery and how compatient he actually is especially with a rifle in his hands. He also acts the idiot but he isn't one, hes actually very knowledgeable about pokemon having created his pokedex on cue cards in meticulous detail a feat that would have required a shit ton of research.
I think the James we know is largely a mask he created to protect himself from Jessabelle, one he still puts up because Jesse looks a lot like her and I don't mean in just appearance