[Yeah, it's okay now. She's had a little more time to come down from being as upset as she was in that moment.]
I... know it is a bit much to hope for, but I hope things work out alright tomorrow, somehow. [it won't, though.] I watched some things on the screen in the theater... people in other places had ways to save whomever had been voted for.
If ever there was a time to do that, it would be now, when we know he is innocent.
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...it sounds as though you never received that comeuppance? I am glad to hear it. I have a hard time imagining you as an... [hmm.] ...asshole.
[He sniggers as soon as Flayn swears. God, that's good. Anyway.]
Yeah? I mean, I try not to be when it counts. [Just when it's. Funny.] But I also - it's important to me, that I'm able to protect the people I care about. People depend on me to be strong enough to do it. So I guess I spent a lot of time trying to show off how I wasn't a guy you wanted to fuck with, so nobody would want to.
The comeuppance was, maybe, that I'd come to care about new people who thought I was the type of person who would hurt them.
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Flayn's way of saying Ogata is an asshole is very wholesome.]
Yeah. I understand. I don't have that much patience for that kind of guy, but I wanted to see it, too.
I was kind of a combative asshole last time around. I always expected some kind of comeuppance for that.
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I... know it is a bit much to hope for, but I hope things work out alright tomorrow, somehow. [it won't, though.] I watched some things on the screen in the theater... people in other places had ways to save whomever had been voted for.
If ever there was a time to do that, it would be now, when we know he is innocent.
[...]
...it sounds as though you never received that comeuppance? I am glad to hear it. I have a hard time imagining you as an... [hmm.] ...asshole.
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Yeah? I mean, I try not to be when it counts. [Just when it's. Funny.] But I also - it's important to me, that I'm able to protect the people I care about. People depend on me to be strong enough to do it. So I guess I spent a lot of time trying to show off how I wasn't a guy you wanted to fuck with, so nobody would want to.
The comeuppance was, maybe, that I'd come to care about new people who thought I was the type of person who would hurt them.
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That must have been awful. Being distrusted by people you care about...
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Oh... I am glad to hear that.