There's tons of people here that are good at it. That's what the CDC does. Hire people to do this. Usually they gotta have a bit of experience on the old resume first.
[They'd seen the potential even in the likes of him, and many, many others even more pacifist than him. Everyone got sucked down the murder drain, or they suffered the consequences. Optimus Primed out of this world, so to speak.
He does shoot her a look. It borders on a scowl.] It's not just concern, okay? It's flat out logic. Two's better than one. And we work well together.
[She's changing gears though. He half wonders if it's a tactic to get him to back down, yet even as the thought occurs he squashes it down. Akame's softer inside than she likes to admit, and there's a thread of strain to the query that only those who'd spent years with the girl can pick out amidst the deadpan.]
It wasn't...[Oh man. Years later and his throat still sticks up on him sometimes.] I didn't want to leave. I was glad you came. I wouldn't have left unless you came with me...
[He'd been such a coward. Trying to spare the natives when he knew they'd be dead from planetary detonation within a month. These days he knew what a real mercy was. Peter tugs on a lock of hair, tucking it behind his ear. That's not even the whole of it either.]
I would have died a lot quicker without you, honestly. I think....like in some respect... [His lungs seemed to have pulled tight.] I was teetering between things. I was pretty panicked and I couldn't kill them, and I didn't want to be there, but I was scared anyway of actually committing to it. Either they would have got the drop on me or I'd...like...but you showed up, and then it was a little easier to keep going. To remember that going on was an option.
[His proud march has dwindled to a thoughtful gait, melancholy trailing after with a grip on his sleeves. It's embarrassing to admit that he was so utterly gutless that he'd thought it was gonna be his only option. The least noble way out of a ruthless contract. Couldn't even go out fighting.
Peter shakes his head.]
That's the last time I thought like that, though. I know better now.
okay. okay. i can do this.......fingers hit the keyboard trembling
[They'd seen the potential even in the likes of him, and many, many others even more pacifist than him. Everyone got sucked down the murder drain, or they suffered the consequences. Optimus Primed out of this world, so to speak.
He does shoot her a look. It borders on a scowl.] It's not just concern, okay? It's flat out logic. Two's better than one. And we work well together.
[She's changing gears though. He half wonders if it's a tactic to get him to back down, yet even as the thought occurs he squashes it down. Akame's softer inside than she likes to admit, and there's a thread of strain to the query that only those who'd spent years with the girl can pick out amidst the deadpan.]
It wasn't...[Oh man. Years later and his throat still sticks up on him sometimes.] I didn't want to leave. I was glad you came. I wouldn't have left unless you came with me...
[He'd been such a coward. Trying to spare the natives when he knew they'd be dead from planetary detonation within a month. These days he knew what a real mercy was. Peter tugs on a lock of hair, tucking it behind his ear. That's not even the whole of it either.]
I would have died a lot quicker without you, honestly. I think....like in some respect... [His lungs seemed to have pulled tight.] I was teetering between things. I was pretty panicked and I couldn't kill them, and I didn't want to be there, but I was scared anyway of actually committing to it. Either they would have got the drop on me or I'd...like...but you showed up, and then it was a little easier to keep going. To remember that going on was an option.
[His proud march has dwindled to a thoughtful gait, melancholy trailing after with a grip on his sleeves. It's embarrassing to admit that he was so utterly gutless that he'd thought it was gonna be his only option. The least noble way out of a ruthless contract. Couldn't even go out fighting.
Peter shakes his head.]
That's the last time I thought like that, though. I know better now.