don't make him shave those centimeters off his boots ]
[ He's speaking in short, clipped sentences that make Allen watch him carefully, lips still pressed together in a thinly worried sort of way. He isn't saying many words, but there's a lot there. Lines he needs to try to read between, and it's hard to.
His eyes dip down to the ointment when he places it down, and then back up to Todoroki. He doesn't move to pick it up. ]
...alright. Okay then, I won't. [ Still soft-spoken, but with a certain kind of certainty and clear eyes. Then he really won't. It isn't even really the point he was trying to make, and he agrees with everything Shouto is saying. It seems like a poor choice of words that set off something that runs terribly deep and into very dark places.
"He's broken too." That's what Kizu had said. ]
But if you wouldn't hate me, then I don't think you'd want me to hate myself for it either. Right? [ It's quiet, but also earnest. This he does believe. ]
Likewise I don't hate you and don't want you to hate yourself. Even if I can understand how that feels and that it isn't so easy to just... not. [ He laces his fingers together, pressing down on them. ] A good person who does something bad -- it doesn't mean they're inherently bad.
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don't make him shave those centimeters off his boots ]
[ He's speaking in short, clipped sentences that make Allen watch him carefully, lips still pressed together in a thinly worried sort of way. He isn't saying many words, but there's a lot there. Lines he needs to try to read between, and it's hard to.
His eyes dip down to the ointment when he places it down, and then back up to Todoroki. He doesn't move to pick it up. ]
...alright. Okay then, I won't. [ Still soft-spoken, but with a certain kind of certainty and clear eyes. Then he really won't. It isn't even really the point he was trying to make, and he agrees with everything Shouto is saying. It seems like a poor choice of words that set off something that runs terribly deep and into very dark places.
"He's broken too." That's what Kizu had said. ]
But if you wouldn't hate me, then I don't think you'd want me to hate myself for it either. Right? [ It's quiet, but also earnest. This he does believe. ]
Likewise I don't hate you and don't want you to hate yourself. Even if I can understand how that feels and that it isn't so easy to just... not. [ He laces his fingers together, pressing down on them. ] A good person who does something bad -- it doesn't mean they're inherently bad.
That's all I'm trying to say.