RYUKI

[foreverphantom]

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[foreverphantom]

[ breathing heavily: ] Not really.

But now I'm too tired to do much else about it, so.

[unsync]

You'll sleep a little better if you're tired?

"A little better", being, pass out like a rock, but better than lying awake about it, right.

[foreverphantom]

...right. Sleeping.

[unsync]

Fine.

Pass out, if you prefer that.

[foreverphantom]

I'd rather not. But I don't exactly think a whole lot about sleeping either.

[unsync]

I don't... know what that means.

[ To be totally honest. ]

[foreverphantom]

Good.

[unsync]

[ He just sighs... again. ]

I know you're not obligated to work with me on anything, but I wish you did.

[foreverphantom]

[ this takes him by surprise ] Wha-what?

[unsync]

What...

[ He is surprised by YOUR surprise. ]

[foreverphantom]

I...do work with you. In trials. I work with everyone.

[unsync]

I meant in conversation. You just brush me off a lot, or just say things, and when I don't follow, you just brush it off again.

[ It's the age divide... he is just a boomer to Danny... ]

[foreverphantom]

Because when I don't, it always turns into an argument that I'm sure neither of us want to have.

[unsync]

That's not true...

[ Sort of. He sighs. ]

I don't know, I just can't keep up. I know you guys are capable even if you're young, but it just feels like everyone I talk to always is like this.

[ He just has a serial history of teenagers brushing him off and it's a lot. This is just really normal with him and teens, I can't stress this enough. ]

[foreverphantom]

...you're like this because you think we're helpless kids?

[unsync]

What? No. Everyone I knew in Tokyo was also pretty capable... for the most part.

But you're also all just so... standoffish, I don't know.

Or I guess it could just be me.

[foreverphantom]

It's because when you act like the "adults" have to handle it all because we're so fragile and pure, it makes you look like an ignorant buffoon.

[unsync]

It's not about being an adult, it's that I have a duty to look out for other people. I don't care if you were 6'1" and built like a tank -- unless you have a badge, I'm going to tell you to go home.

[foreverphantom]

You realize how stupid and arbitrary that is, right?

Look--it's fine if you do it once. But if they tell you to shove off and they can handle it, then you still insisting on not letting them do it just makes you infuriating.

[unsync]

I'd rather someone be mad at me but in one piece than dead because I just let them.

[foreverphantom]

Then what about this: the more you try and keep me "safe", the more I'm gonna throw myself into things, dangerous or not.

[unsync]

That's what I mean by not working with me.

Why! Why is that so wrong?

Why is it that when I try to help, all that happens is everything gets even more fucked up?!

[foreverphantom]

Because that's not helping. What you're asking for isn't "working with you," it's "be a nice little boy and go hide in the closet while the big brave adults act like they can handle it any better than you could."

It's insulting.

[unsync]

The last time someone acted like that, she lost an eye.

She was only twelve. She didn't deserve that. I should've just told them all to go away.

[foreverphantom]

You can't save everyone from their own stupid mistakes. They'll happen one way or the other eventually, whether you're there or not.