Avoiding loss of life isn't supposed to be about mission parameters.
[ What a depressing thing to have to say. ]
You spent time among them. You're escorting Empress Youmi. Do you mean to tell me you feel nothing for those people you would be so eager to obliterate?
pretty sociopathic. She's reconsidering her life choices right now. At first she wants to reach for 'I don't believe you' because she knows he has a human heart inside of him; she's seen it. But that's not the same thing as letting it ... actually connect to other real people. He's afraid of her, for crying out loud. Not because she attacked him (twice) but because he's vulnerable with her.
And in that way, this ... it makes sense.
A sociopathic kind of sense, but she can understand where it's coming from. And that's really more horrifying than any of it. She can imagine how fucked up it must be in there to work that kind of logic, and how fucked up his life must have been to get him there. Luke trying to kill him is the tip of the iceberg. She hasn't forgotten 'He and that she-witch made me.' There's a lot to unpack there.
Though she reaches for some kind of judgment or derision, instead she just comes up with ... sorrow? It's not just abstract understanding, extrapolated from the fragments he's shown her. It's the feeling that she can feel pouring off of him through the bond when they connect. In the inn, especially. If she felt that all the time, what would she be like? Probably akin to what the temporal insects had shown them. ]
[If he could throw the magitek away, he probably would. Instead he just grits his teeth and stews angrily, before deciding not to reply and return his focus to the escort.]
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[ What a depressing thing to have to say. ]
You spent time among them. You're escorting Empress Youmi. Do you mean to tell me you feel nothing for those people you would be so eager to obliterate?
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[Sorry that your crush is a sociopath.]
They would not mourn any of us. We are outsiders.
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pretty sociopathic. She's reconsidering her life choices right now. At first she wants to reach for 'I don't believe you' because she knows he has a human heart inside of him; she's seen it. But that's not the same thing as letting it ... actually connect to other real people. He's afraid of her, for crying out loud. Not because she attacked him (twice) but because he's vulnerable with her.
And in that way, this ... it makes sense.
A sociopathic kind of sense, but she can understand where it's coming from. And that's really more horrifying than any of it. She can imagine how fucked up it must be in there to work that kind of logic, and how fucked up his life must have been to get him there. Luke trying to kill him is the tip of the iceberg. She hasn't forgotten 'He and that she-witch made me.' There's a lot to unpack there.
Though she reaches for some kind of judgment or derision, instead she just comes up with ... sorrow? It's not just abstract understanding, extrapolated from the fragments he's shown her. It's the feeling that she can feel pouring off of him through the bond when they connect. In the inn, especially. If she felt that all the time, what would she be like? Probably akin to what the temporal insects had shown them. ]
I'm sorry.
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