[Of course it's their fault. It was not the slavers that broke him. It was not the visit to the Outpost in the Runoff that broke him. It was not, ostensibly, losing person after person he held very dear and panicking as a result of it. It was not the stress and pain of seeing the results of that doomed endeavor to tear the Outpost asunder, and the results that came of that.
It was harsh words from a single child.
Because it's different when you do it, Chara. It's always different when it's you. You're the one who cannot ever pull your punches, whose frankness reduces monsters to dust simply via extended contact, whose cynicism is fatal. You're the one who cannot possibly call situations as you see them, because there will be consequences, and those consequences will be fatal, as most things involving you are.]
Monsters are hypocrites. They all deserved what I gave them. Every one.
[Spoken without inflection, without remorse. They could claim some manner of sorrow for it, but what would that accomplish? They are not sorry. They could never be sorry. Apologies, pity, are nothing but self-serving attempts for the party that committed the wrongdoing to feel marginally better about their part in it.
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It was harsh words from a single child.
Because it's different when you do it, Chara. It's always different when it's you. You're the one who cannot ever pull your punches, whose frankness reduces monsters to dust simply via extended contact, whose cynicism is fatal. You're the one who cannot possibly call situations as you see them, because there will be consequences, and those consequences will be fatal, as most things involving you are.]
Monsters are hypocrites. They all deserved what I gave them. Every one.
[Spoken without inflection, without remorse. They could claim some manner of sorrow for it, but what would that accomplish? They are not sorry. They could never be sorry. Apologies, pity, are nothing but self-serving attempts for the party that committed the wrongdoing to feel marginally better about their part in it.
They've not earned that.]