The way this whole place functions should bother me, but... strangely, it does not. We are being given things... like pets, in a way, with guidelines. And when we break those guidelines, no one else is responsible for the outcome but ourselves.
[ more in line with what he was thinking, anyway. even if he keeps circling back to why rin. that's what he gets most hung up on. the game just started, and already a kid ]
[He is thoughtful for a moment since he isn't sure if Livio is going to like his answer.]
I've only known them for a week or two, so no, but they are precious themselves. Rang is a beautiful and misunderstood creature trapped by the negative legends humans have forced him to have. Matsui and Buzen are wonderful historical treasures which don't see their own importance in the world.
They deserve just as much of a chance as anyone else.
[ at least, in the way d would think. he's not d's kind of monster. he pauses, here, almost doesn't say anything more, but then: ] I'm a freak, and a lab rat, but a human.
[ his tattoo..... he allows this, but d might get the sense that that eye's gaze is slightly more intense than his right ]
I do. We've talked about this before. [ it feels like it's been years since that first convo, but.... ] Mankind has the capacity to change, but they have to want to.
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I didn't. I don't think it was my place. But they were found, so tomorrow they will be erased.
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Does it bother you?
[ the killingifcation of rin... ]
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Does that make sense?
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It doesn't to me. What guidelines did Rin break? How does letting someone else face erasure for your team's crime count as taking responsibility?
[ it's one thing to see it as a legitimate competition to get a second chance at life, but this he doesn't get ]
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We have a rulebook full of guidelines to follow.
[He glances at Livio.]
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[ more in line with what he was thinking, anyway. even if he keeps circling back to why rin. that's what he gets most hung up on. the game just started, and already a kid ]
Is yer team precious to you?
[ d can be hard to read sometimes ]
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I've only known them for a week or two, so no, but they are precious themselves. Rang is a beautiful and misunderstood creature trapped by the negative legends humans have forced him to have. Matsui and Buzen are wonderful historical treasures which don't see their own importance in the world.
They deserve just as much of a chance as anyone else.
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And you, Mister D? Is yer own life precious to you?
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No. [Which is an honest answer.] It is necessary and important for the duty I carry, but it is not precious in the grand scheme of things.
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The duty you carry?
[ come, d, exposition before your death ]
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Yes. To run the pet shop I inherited from my grandfather.
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Pets, huh...
[ looking at t-chan. ]
And ya have rules to follow there?
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Let me ask you this first: are you human, Mr. Livio?
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I am.
[ at least, in the way d would think. he's not d's kind of monster. he pauses, here, almost doesn't say anything more, but then: ] I'm a freak, and a lab rat, but a human.
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[He reaches up to brush his fingers over Livio's left eye.]
How awful humans can be to each other.
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I do. We've talked about this before. [ it feels like it's been years since that first convo, but.... ] Mankind has the capacity to change, but they have to want to.
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[He puts his hands back in his lap.]
That is my duty. To make sure mankind changes. Before our world turns into your world.
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[ but he gets what d is trying to say here, so he doesn't really argue. ]
T-chan and your other pets are part of that?
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But the animals will protect me and the shop to the death. They aren't forced to, but they do so because it is their home. Because they understand.
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