[Qrow is nodding along, thinking to himself how they really do seem to have quite a few things in common, and how this is the first chance any of them have had to be free of the responsibility of saving the world in years, decades, and millennia, respectively, when Break says something that thoroughly distracts him.]
"Noodley One"?
[This, at last, is the thing that gets Qrow to turn around, eyebrow raised. Is that what Break imagines he looks like??? This is a terrible impression to have made. (Break wouldn't even be entirely wrong, is the worst part; for all that Qrow certainly has the muscle to handle his ridiculous heavy weapon, he does not exactly have the broadest build ever)]
Oh--you mean the dog. That makes more sense.
[Well, that was a little embarrassing. But...one has to get back to the topic at hand eventually. He huffs slightly, just to get the last of his fluster out of his system.]
...Your kids dealt with apocalypse bullshit too, huh? Congrats on pulling it off, at least.
[He rubs at his face.]
Ours is...complicated. But one of the things we learned in the dream was, there's other versions of us back in our worlds, living their lives as if they were never in Deerington.
[Let yourself be more than you were, Sleeper, Cynthia had said, at the end. You're allowed to be something new.]
We could start over, without having to feel like we'd abandoned our world to being destroyed. And then...we found out about Ruby and Yang falling into the void. It just didn't seem worth trying to go back, after that.
[It really was the final straw for him, ultimately, learning what happened to his nieces while he was keeping the Ace Ops occupied in the hangar. For months, he'd been resigned to going back if the girls felt a remaining obligation to their planet and the war they'd ended up in, unwinnable or not. But he doesn't think he could go back to bear that grief. It'd destroy him.]
For all the bullshit this place might throw at us, at least we'll be together.
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"Noodley One"?
[This, at last, is the thing that gets Qrow to turn around, eyebrow raised. Is that what Break imagines he looks like??? This is a terrible impression to have made. (Break wouldn't even be entirely wrong, is the worst part; for all that Qrow certainly has the muscle to handle his ridiculous heavy weapon, he does not exactly have the broadest build ever)]
Oh--you mean the dog. That makes more sense.
[Well, that was a little embarrassing. But...one has to get back to the topic at hand eventually. He huffs slightly, just to get the last of his fluster out of his system.]
...Your kids dealt with apocalypse bullshit too, huh? Congrats on pulling it off, at least.
[He rubs at his face.]
Ours is...complicated. But one of the things we learned in the dream was, there's other versions of us back in our worlds, living their lives as if they were never in Deerington.
[Let yourself be more than you were, Sleeper, Cynthia had said, at the end. You're allowed to be something new.]
We could start over, without having to feel like we'd abandoned our world to being destroyed. And then...we found out about Ruby and Yang falling into the void. It just didn't seem worth trying to go back, after that.
[It really was the final straw for him, ultimately, learning what happened to his nieces while he was keeping the Ace Ops occupied in the hangar. For months, he'd been resigned to going back if the girls felt a remaining obligation to their planet and the war they'd ended up in, unwinnable or not. But he doesn't think he could go back to bear that grief. It'd destroy him.]
For all the bullshit this place might throw at us, at least we'll be together.