[It's always been a little like this, hasn't it. Even with the paladins, when all he wanted was to just go home and be with his family, all of that had to be pushed aside to go fight the Galra. Whatever his needs were, they had to be suppressed because there was always so much more at stake.
And eventually, you got used to lying to yourself a little too. That being a liberator is what he wanted, not what was needed of him.
But Boa is right. There aren't stakes like that here, not any more. It's just... the embarrassment of needing to cry on a kid that he's only recently started to get along with and the enormity of responsibility and guilt that maybe he can't tackle alone.
He gives the side of Boa's head a light shove.]
Don't call me an idiot, idiot.
[But there's no force behind those words. If anything they're just a distraction from the fact that he's crying all over again.]
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And eventually, you got used to lying to yourself a little too. That being a liberator is what he wanted, not what was needed of him.
But Boa is right. There aren't stakes like that here, not any more. It's just... the embarrassment of needing to cry on a kid that he's only recently started to get along with and the enormity of responsibility and guilt that maybe he can't tackle alone.
He gives the side of Boa's head a light shove.]
Don't call me an idiot, idiot.
[But there's no force behind those words. If anything they're just a distraction from the fact that he's crying all over again.]