[ Something about the darkness is unsettling, but it also feels familiar - other than that pull on her elbow, keeping her grounded to reality. But it's not that moment Ange ends up focusing on as much as she focuses on the moment right after. Break standing there, clearly having pushed himself to his limit. The display of the corpses everywhere.
.. what a macabre world, she thinks, though Ange isn't blaming Break for it in the slightest. This is how reality often is, isn't it? It's either kill or be killed, no matter how much you might dislike it.
At first her gaze is still trained on the scene in front of them, but then Ange finally looks at Break near the end of what he's saying, when she catches a certain tone in his voice. Looking at his face, seeing that smile - it's as if she can somehow read that final thought on his hand that goes technically unvoiced in it.
And it's not that she doesn't get it. Ange also thinks Trench is awful. But after having chosen to go there, even if the end result wasn't exactly what she experienced-- she's determined to not let that dumb place drag anyone down in such a way. ]
You could see it as a taunt. [ She won't deny that. ] But that's not what I'm seeing. I'm seeing a guy who, even when the circumstances are totally turned against him, is still giving everything he's got to protect the people he cares about.
[ Isn't that what she eventually learned back home? It took so long, but.. "without love, it can't be seen." She could see this as yet another awful thing this place is doing to them.
Or she could twist it into having a good edge to it instead. The past can't be changed, but the future can be. And though it's a sentiment Ange would never dare say it out, she refuses to get anyone in this place she knows go uncared for. ]
I'm seeing something that's making me think, "ah, that old man's got a good quality or two after all."
[ There's obviously a bit more to it than that, but Ange is - as she always does - downplaying it a little before it gets too utterly embarrassing. ]
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.. what a macabre world, she thinks, though Ange isn't blaming Break for it in the slightest. This is how reality often is, isn't it? It's either kill or be killed, no matter how much you might dislike it.
At first her gaze is still trained on the scene in front of them, but then Ange finally looks at Break near the end of what he's saying, when she catches a certain tone in his voice. Looking at his face, seeing that smile - it's as if she can somehow read that final thought on his hand that goes technically unvoiced in it.
And it's not that she doesn't get it. Ange also thinks Trench is awful. But after having chosen to go there, even if the end result wasn't exactly what she experienced-- she's determined to not let that dumb place drag anyone down in such a way. ]
You could see it as a taunt. [ She won't deny that. ] But that's not what I'm seeing. I'm seeing a guy who, even when the circumstances are totally turned against him, is still giving everything he's got to protect the people he cares about.
[ Isn't that what she eventually learned back home? It took so long, but.. "without love, it can't be seen." She could see this as yet another awful thing this place is doing to them.
Or she could twist it into having a good edge to it instead. The past can't be changed, but the future can be. And though it's a sentiment Ange would never dare say it out, she refuses to get anyone in this place she knows go uncared for. ]
I'm seeing something that's making me think, "ah, that old man's got a good quality or two after all."
[ There's obviously a bit more to it than that, but Ange is - as she always does - downplaying it a little before it gets too utterly embarrassing. ]