[okay. she will just come and sit with him. she doesn't know what happened to him in the fade, but she does know what she saw happen.]
There is a me who has done terrible things too, and she is standing right here. I don't remember all of them, but I know I have been cruel and I have tortured and I have killed and I have caused suffering for people for no reason other than that I was made to believe I had to be that sort of person.
You are not alone in feeling horror about the things you are capable of when pushed to extremes.
[It's supposed to be comforting and in some ways it is. But was he really made to believe he was that person? Or was it just someone who could act on feelings that he'd always home.]
I don't know. I feel some of those things. I don't... I don't want to be alone. I want someone to want me next to them.
[a little wince at that, as something very envious rattles her. that same feeling, really, just a little differently shaped. why is it something so many can take for granted, when she never has.]
I know I am not a cute boy, but I want you next to me.
[He wants to smile for her. He knows that's the right thing to do. But instead a tear starts to run from single visible eye and he sniffles and wipes it away.]
[it's just a fleeting thought, not even truly her own. she pushes it away.]
It didn't, but I think last time I envied Fidelio, because he kept his own mind, he did all the right things. And now I'm quite aware that isn't an enviable position to be in, either.
I don't even know if I was entirely helpless. [i mean she did kill a bunch of them.] But... I feel sorry for the girl that I was.
[some version of her who never had contemplated all of her friends bursting into monsters and picking up a sword and putting them down was traumatized by all of this.]
The point is, I hated watching that happen to all of you.
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There is a me who has done terrible things too, and she is standing right here. I don't remember all of them, but I know I have been cruel and I have tortured and I have killed and I have caused suffering for people for no reason other than that I was made to believe I had to be that sort of person.
You are not alone in feeling horror about the things you are capable of when pushed to extremes.
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I don't know. I feel some of those things. I don't... I don't want to be alone. I want someone to want me next to them.
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I know I am not a cute boy, but I want you next to me.
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I want you near me too.
[He just presses his face into her shoulder.]
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What that place did... none of us could have easily resisted. I was on guard, because it happened to me last time.
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I'm sorry it happened to you again.
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[it's just a fleeting thought, not even truly her own. she pushes it away.]
It didn't, but I think last time I envied Fidelio, because he kept his own mind, he did all the right things. And now I'm quite aware that isn't an enviable position to be in, either.
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[some version of her who never had contemplated all of her friends bursting into monsters and picking up a sword and putting them down was traumatized by all of this.]
The point is, I hated watching that happen to all of you.