[ i thought about making this a joke tag again just to see if you would finally kick me from your life but i will spare you this time
It's a short answer, and not that much of a suprising one, but it manages to slap him across the face all the same, prompting a disbelieving exhale that manages to rise above the torrential maelstrom of misery threatening to suck them both in. ]
Are you always this self-centered?
[ Don't actually answer that. ]
If anything happens it'll be because of my own actions, not because of you. [ As it always has been and always will be. ] I chose this path for myself. If I get hurt, if I die again, [ because he won't discount that possibility especially with the way he is now, unharmonized and powerless ] it'll be no one's fault but my own.
[ Not Dokja's, not whichever person on the opposing side threatening harm, not even Yima or Cyrus or whatever greater power had brought him here to this place. (Though he certainly isn't feeling particularly kind-hearted towards either of them at the moment.) For someone who's always been straining at the leash and allowed freedom only at the whims of someone else, to be told yet again that his fate might lie in someone else's hands, even tangentially, stings.
There's a curl of bitterness that wraps around him, turning his voice quiet and sharp. ]
Don't take that away from the people around you. Don't invalidate their choices by making it all about you.
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It's a short answer, and not that much of a suprising one, but it manages to slap him across the face all the same, prompting a disbelieving exhale that manages to rise above the torrential maelstrom of misery threatening to suck them both in. ]
Are you always this self-centered?
[ Don't actually answer that. ]
If anything happens it'll be because of my own actions, not because of you. [ As it always has been and always will be. ] I chose this path for myself. If I get hurt, if I die again, [ because he won't discount that possibility especially with the way he is now, unharmonized and powerless ] it'll be no one's fault but my own.
[ Not Dokja's, not whichever person on the opposing side threatening harm, not even Yima or Cyrus or whatever greater power had brought him here to this place. (Though he certainly isn't feeling particularly kind-hearted towards either of them at the moment.) For someone who's always been straining at the leash and allowed freedom only at the whims of someone else, to be told yet again that his fate might lie in someone else's hands, even tangentially, stings.
There's a curl of bitterness that wraps around him, turning his voice quiet and sharp. ]
Don't take that away from the people around you. Don't invalidate their choices by making it all about you.