Why are you looking at me like I know? Do I look like the kind of person who pays attention to every little coming and going of all the random people who end up here to you?
In their heads, they saw you just last month. But it's been a year since you've seen all of them. Maybe you're not even the same person. It's... weird. I don't like it.
even emerging out of his latest circumstances, he was a little jumbled. coming back here had been both disorienting and relieving. part of it had been because Akechi was with him. ]
[ he could answer that, but he doubts that she'd really like the answer. there are a million other things that mattered, but Ren's own drive to get stronger came from a different place. Maruki had told him it was the way that he reconciled his place in his own reality.
it seemed like Catra's walls became harder to break, and that was the part of her that got stronger. ]
You don't seem happy.
[ and Adora keeps coming up in his head, dragging herself to help others. ]
[ A younger Catra might have denied it. Yelled about how of course she's happy, leading the Horde. About how if she isn't happy, it's everyone else's fault.
But no. Catra knows enough now to be able to admit that she's not just unhappy-- she's miserable. That leading the Horde doesn't bring her happiness. That the extent of her anger and misery is at least partially etched onto her whole being, and denying it would only make her look stupid. The only problem of course is admitting it out loud to others. Looking weak and pitiful. So she takes a different tack. ]
... Tch. So what? Do I have to be happy all the time?
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Date: 2020-09-08 02:51 am (UTC)[ he didn't know that looking different was a necessity!! also, well, he technically left and came back at the same time. ]
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Date: 2020-09-08 04:23 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-09-08 04:06 pm (UTC)Is everyone usually gone for a year?
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Date: 2020-09-08 04:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-09-10 12:24 am (UTC)Could just be coincidence.
[ that seems like the best way to deal with that. ]
It feels strange coming back. It was hardly two weeks since I've been gone.
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Date: 2020-09-11 05:58 am (UTC)In their heads, they saw you just last month. But it's been a year since you've seen all of them. Maybe you're not even the same person. It's... weird. I don't like it.
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Date: 2020-09-11 02:39 pm (UTC)even emerging out of his latest circumstances, he was a little jumbled. coming back here had been both disorienting and relieving. part of it had been because Akechi was with him. ]
You're definitely not the same Catra.
[ a small affirmation, maybe. ]
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Date: 2020-09-12 04:08 am (UTC)[ She doesn't seem terribly happy about it, though. ]
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Date: 2020-09-12 02:42 pm (UTC)[ because what he sees now is a sharp edge. ]
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Date: 2020-09-12 02:53 pm (UTC)Every way.
[ What else??? Duh!! ]
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Date: 2020-09-12 02:55 pm (UTC)[ there's a firmness to his voice as he takes another bite of bread. ]
It's avoiding the question.
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Date: 2020-09-12 02:59 pm (UTC)What else matters?
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Date: 2020-09-12 03:10 pm (UTC)it seemed like Catra's walls became harder to break, and that was the part of her that got stronger. ]
You don't seem happy.
[ and Adora keeps coming up in his head, dragging herself to help others. ]
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Date: 2020-09-12 03:20 pm (UTC)But no. Catra knows enough now to be able to admit that she's not just unhappy-- she's miserable. That leading the Horde doesn't bring her happiness. That the extent of her anger and misery is at least partially etched onto her whole being, and denying it would only make her look stupid. The only problem of course is admitting it out loud to others. Looking weak and pitiful. So she takes a different tack. ]
... Tch. So what? Do I have to be happy all the time?
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Date: 2020-09-13 12:14 am (UTC)It sounds like you got what you wanted, I thought you'd be happier.
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Date: 2020-09-13 12:16 am (UTC)... Yeah. Me too.
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Date: 2020-09-16 04:19 pm (UTC)What are you going to do here now that you're back?