There's an immense appeal in bringing some pompous twit to my supposed level. Reminding him that the brain isn't as simple as his textbooks and his doctorate lead him to believe.
Punch them or ignore them, the damage is completed. Often it sticks right in to the bone. And you can't explain to the 'jerks' what they did wrong when they were simply being themselves.
You know, you can just tell someone. Then if it isn't going to work out, you can at least do yourself a favor and move on. Guess with you it's kinda late, though, huh?
It's hard to move on when you've invested so much of yourself into someone else. Or just the idea of them. You define yourself by their presence in your life.
In the end, there's so little left of you anymore.
That's what happened to Rosiel. At least part of it.
I don't want that happening to Kira.... [Maybe it's not possible, though. He's been chasing after Alexiel for so long, and he has her. Kira's probably safe. It's here Setsuna's stopped thinking of this in terms of himself and Sara.]
Are you okay with that...with her not being around?
[Because, last time Setsuna checked, in love, whether sane or not, there was a craving, almost a need, to be around the other person at times. He still feels that for Sara, even now.]
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When did you become a licensed therapist, Set-chan?
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You'd probably kill yours, wouldn't you?
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I'd get him to kill himself.
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Kinda scary.
Surprised, though. Wouldn't you want the satisfaction? Or is there some appeal in knowing you made someone off themselves?
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There's an immense appeal in bringing some pompous twit to my supposed level. Reminding him that the brain isn't as simple as his textbooks and his doctorate lead him to believe.
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Are they really all pompous?
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Hardly.
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I think you're just paranoid. I refuse to believe all of 'em are like that.
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Yes, of course you would. Oozing goodwill as you are.
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If you're one freak, then I'm another.
But really, all you are is clueless boy desperate to love and be loved. [ It might sound poetic, if his tone weren't so bleak. ]
[ He was like that too, once. ]
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[A light chuckle.] I'm not that desperate. But there's nothing wrong with it, you know.
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[ His gaze dims. ]
It is when you don't get anything out of it. It just eats you alive from inside out. Leaves you as something less than whole.
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[But his chipper mood softens, turning to something light, soft, and empathetic.]
Karl.... [It, actually, never managed to do that with Setsuna, so he might not understand. Oh, no. He does. Maybe better than he thinks.]
That's when it twists to cruelty. When it corrupts. Turns to hatred and destruction.
But it doesn't have to be like that. That's when you just punch them for being jerks!
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Punch them or ignore them, the damage is completed. Often it sticks right in to the bone. And you can't explain to the 'jerks' what they did wrong when they were simply being themselves.
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You know, you can just tell someone. Then if it isn't going to work out, you can at least do yourself a favor and move on. Guess with you it's kinda late, though, huh?
Hatter's way wouldn't work for you, either.
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In the end, there's so little left of you anymore.
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I don't want that happening to Kira.... [Maybe it's not possible, though. He's been chasing after Alexiel for so long, and he has her. Kira's probably safe. It's here Setsuna's stopped thinking of this in terms of himself and Sara.]
How much of you is left, Karl?
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Just the rage. Just the hatred and the insanity.
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This is the most lucid you've been in a while. [Lucid with Saya around. Interesting. Most.]
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[ It's only in her presence, overwrought and confused, that he loses all reason. Only when he's being kept away from her. ]
[ But in the City, in the manor, she's always under his nose. There's a sense of -- if not reassurance -- than appeasement in that. ]
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[Because, last time Setsuna checked, in love, whether sane or not, there was a craving, almost a need, to be around the other person at times. He still feels that for Sara, even now.]
[He's worried, though, for Karl.]
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