[ Allen's eyes track his movements as he says that, "People dying en-masse... that doesn't happen where I come from...." and his expression flickers slightly. Sympathetic as yes, that does confirm what he had already been expecting. It's sad--
It means this is also such a terrible world for him to be in now.
But he set off an unintentional cascade effect, and he startles lightly at Todoroki's reaction.
Honestly, it was a sore point for him even before realizing certain other things. When Timothy was identified as being an Accomodator... he screamed and thrashed and resisted, wanting nothing to do with them. He'd called them out point blank on them not seeming like any kind of "good guys". And the Order didn't listen to him. Didn't care it was ripping him from the only home he'd ever known just to fight in a war he'd never heard of. He was an exorcist. He was going to fight for them.
He had been 9. And Allen had had doubts about there being anything "right" about the whole thing even then.
Holding Shouto's appalled stare for a moment, that spark and suddenly a lot more feeling obvious there again, the outrage, he swallows a bit uneasily for a moment, hesitating, before his gaze slips aside. ]
...It wasn't the worst thing done in the name of trying to win a war.
[ He says it more uneasily still and in a manner where he isn't making light of that sort of thing at all. Which means yes, they did. And it was honestly just the tip of the iceberg. ]
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It means this is also such a terrible world for him to be in now.
But he set off an unintentional cascade effect, and he startles lightly at Todoroki's reaction.
Honestly, it was a sore point for him even before realizing certain other things. When Timothy was identified as being an Accomodator... he screamed and thrashed and resisted, wanting nothing to do with them. He'd called them out point blank on them not seeming like any kind of "good guys". And the Order didn't listen to him. Didn't care it was ripping him from the only home he'd ever known just to fight in a war he'd never heard of. He was an exorcist. He was going to fight for them.
He had been 9. And Allen had had doubts about there being anything "right" about the whole thing even then.
Holding Shouto's appalled stare for a moment, that spark and suddenly a lot more feeling obvious there again, the outrage, he swallows a bit uneasily for a moment, hesitating, before his gaze slips aside. ]
...It wasn't the worst thing done in the name of trying to win a war.
[ He says it more uneasily still and in a manner where he isn't making light of that sort of thing at all. Which means yes, they did. And it was honestly just the tip of the iceberg. ]