Suddenly he gets what she means now, or at least he thinks he does, and his expression smooths. Timcanpy is likewise momentarily mollified, understanding her line of thought. A dangerous one for Allen, maybe -- but maybe a necessary one as well. Especially as she does make a good point, and so he just watches them both very closely as he continues to drift in the direction of Willful Machine.
"How long do you think we'll watch in silence"... ]
I hadn't thought about it like that... what that must be like. I'm sorry. [ It's said more softly and somberly. The weight their choices put on their own omens... His relationship with Timcanpy is -- overshadowed by how they've always been. And perhaps he really did never think about how all that affected Tim, even before... until it got him killed.
Timcanpy drifts back, pressing his face lightly against the side of Allen's. He'd perch on his shoulder, but there isn't proper room. But Allen closes his eyes for a moment.
It isn't about just their omens, either; it's about everyone around them who cares for them. Lenalee comes to mind, wiping angry tears from her eyes as she said how much she hated it, that smile of his, how he still smiled even when he knew she knew he meant to stay behind and likely die. How her expression would always drop a little as she watched him when he tried to hide something painful from her, and he knew she knew even if neither said anything. ]
...I don't think there's an easy answer, either. [ That really is the truth. But he looks back up ahead then, squaring his shoulders up a little again. ] But... just because the world is sometimes terrible and causes us to break, it doesn't mean we can just look away from it, either. Or hide from it. [ He's not that kind of person. Todoroki isn't that kind of person.
In another world, that might not apply. But in the world he remembers and in the Trench... this is the way the world is. The way he understands it. The unfortunate truth of a cruel existence.
Just, he comes to an entirely different conclusion because of it. ]
It just means we have to do what we can to help each other break a little less.
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Suddenly he gets what she means now, or at least he thinks he does, and his expression smooths. Timcanpy is likewise momentarily mollified, understanding her line of thought. A dangerous one for Allen, maybe -- but maybe a necessary one as well. Especially as she does make a good point, and so he just watches them both very closely as he continues to drift in the direction of Willful Machine.
"How long do you think we'll watch in silence"... ]
I hadn't thought about it like that... what that must be like. I'm sorry. [ It's said more softly and somberly. The weight their choices put on their own omens... His relationship with Timcanpy is -- overshadowed by how they've always been. And perhaps he really did never think about how all that affected Tim, even before... until it got him killed.
Timcanpy drifts back, pressing his face lightly against the side of Allen's. He'd perch on his shoulder, but there isn't proper room. But Allen closes his eyes for a moment.
It isn't about just their omens, either; it's about everyone around them who cares for them. Lenalee comes to mind, wiping angry tears from her eyes as she said how much she hated it, that smile of his, how he still smiled even when he knew she knew he meant to stay behind and likely die. How her expression would always drop a little as she watched him when he tried to hide something painful from her, and he knew she knew even if neither said anything. ]
...I don't think there's an easy answer, either. [ That really is the truth. But he looks back up ahead then, squaring his shoulders up a little again. ] But... just because the world is sometimes terrible and causes us to break, it doesn't mean we can just look away from it, either. Or hide from it. [ He's not that kind of person. Todoroki isn't that kind of person.
In another world, that might not apply. But in the world he remembers and in the Trench... this is the way the world is. The way he understands it. The unfortunate truth of a cruel existence.
Just, he comes to an entirely different conclusion because of it. ]
It just means we have to do what we can to help each other break a little less.
Isn't that what you help do?