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levelshift) wrote2024-04-26 02:03 pm
levelshift) wrote2024-04-26 02:03 pm
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un: Accelerator
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un: Accelerator
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I'm not sure, either. Sometimes the missions don't make any sense. There was one were we needed to build a car and race it, but Aurora made it clear it didn't matter who won.
I don't fucking know.
[It was frustrating, even if the engineering part of the mission was pretty fun.]
[It was frustrating, even if the engineering part of the mission was pretty fun.]
[Well, about that.............]
Eventually, yeah. What about you, were you able to stick near your parents?
[It's not as if he knows Clark or Lois that well, but it's pretty clear from the kinds of people they are that they'd be worried about Jon.]
Eventually, yeah. What about you, were you able to stick near your parents?
[It's not as if he knows Clark or Lois that well, but it's pretty clear from the kinds of people they are that they'd be worried about Jon.]
[Shit. He had been alone when he was killed, and even though his situation was different (it had been his own fault to begin with) he's still concerned.]
And you were okay? You and Robin?
And you were okay? You and Robin?
It's good that he has a friend like you around now. You being here probably makes all of this easier.
[Especially at this younger age. Younger Damian is a whole lot less socially competent compared to his older self.]
[Especially at this younger age. Younger Damian is a whole lot less socially competent compared to his older self.]
[Ugh, this is a question he wishes he could avoid.]
No. No one else from my universe has ever ended up here.
No. No one else from my universe has ever ended up here.
Fine.
[Even calling them acquaintances feels like a lot....]
Yeah, I know people like that here. There are a lot of good people in Etraya.
[Even calling them acquaintances feels like a lot....]
Yeah, I know people like that here. There are a lot of good people in Etraya.
Don't get the wrong idea, brat. I'm not a good person.
[ Did he say it wrong? Did his message get through? He wants Accelerator to understand. He knows how hard it is to accept that sort of thing, he knows how it stings that people see him as more than he is. Harold's unerring faith, the way he can't see himself in the picture Harold has painted of him. But here he is on the other side of that fence, seeing for once what he doesn't understand in Harold. ]
Does it feel like the right thing now?
Does it feel like the right thing now?
No. [He says that, but then he has to stop, his face screwing up in concentration, and he drags a rough hand through his hair.] I don't know. You two are good people, so wanting to help you isn't wrong, but....
[But if helping them means hurting and killing some random innocent person, well, that muddies the water. Right now it feels like it had been the wrong thing to do, and at the time it had felt right, so he's left with a confusing mix of self-disgust and an irrational desire to do better for them next time.
It sucks.]
It's fucking complicated. I don't know how to answer that.
[But if helping them means hurting and killing some random innocent person, well, that muddies the water. Right now it feels like it had been the wrong thing to do, and at the time it had felt right, so he's left with a confusing mix of self-disgust and an irrational desire to do better for them next time.
It sucks.]
It's fucking complicated. I don't know how to answer that.
I know, I know. Since we're done with the mission, I'm free whenever.
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