I have a place to go back to. This is what you have. I'm going to protect it--and you--no matter what. What happens to me here, it doesn't really matter. When I go back, I'll go back, and I'll be fine. If some crazy scientist is planning on doing anything, I'm not gonna let it happen.
It's because you're dead back home that I'm doing this.
[ he's. not gonna touch that whole 'not good enough' thing. ]
[ he doesn't even want to be here, this shitty place in shitty outer space and he definitely doesn't want riku to protect him. but he doesn't say that because riku is Good and likes helping people and the whole thing is moot anyway. so he's not gonna touch that part either. ]
Yes, it does matter. What's gonna happen to all your friends if something happens to you? You think they want to see you getting hurt for their sake all the time?
Maybe. But it's good that it was you instead of someone else like Larxene.
[ it's out before he can take it back and his breath hitches just slightly, as if realizing his mistake. but he doesn't try to take it back because this is a fundamental truth: what better way to die than to be destroyed by your original? replicas were doomed from existence and the closest bonds he's had were with riku and namine.
[ there's a rough sound, short and indignant. he's still unsure how to to feel about him, but the fact that he was indirectly the cause of riku's death doesn't really help his opinion of him. ]
voice;
I have a place to go back to. This is what you have. I'm going to protect it--and you--no matter what. What happens to me here, it doesn't really matter. When I go back, I'll go back, and I'll be fine. If some crazy scientist is planning on doing anything, I'm not gonna let it happen.
It's because you're dead back home that I'm doing this.
[ he's. not gonna touch that whole 'not good enough' thing. ]
voice;
Yes, it does matter. What's gonna happen to all your friends if something happens to you? You think they want to see you getting hurt for their sake all the time?
voice;
voice;
You died?
voice;
Y... yeah.
[ quickly; ]
It was nothing. Definitely not as bad as yours. [ distract distract distract ]
voice;
[ calling bullshit. ]
Mine wasn't that bad. What happened?
voice;
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Maybe. But it's good that it was you instead of someone else like Larxene.
[ it's out before he can take it back and his breath hitches just slightly, as if realizing his mistake. but he doesn't try to take it back because this is a fundamental truth: what better way to die than to be destroyed by your original? replicas were doomed from existence and the closest bonds he's had were with riku and namine.
he wouldn't have wanted it any other way. ]
voice;
... I guess.
[ a pause; ]
I pushed Axel out of the way when a building was collapsing.
voice;
How did you come back?
voice;
voice;
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But with the system offline, now... I think we'd stay dead.