[ obviously there's something going on with that when he's talking to his teenage daughter. hearing avdol and polnareff's names spoken aloud for the first time in years makes his nervous energy in him spike up. he nearly decides to pull his hand away from her, but he does need the chroma no matter how little it is. he has to consciously think to not squeeze because he's afraid he might give her a death grip by accident. ]
There's a lot about my life you don't know. I'm confident in that despite your age -- there are things I promised to never tell you.
So when I say I don't have friends I mean it.
[ avdol, kakyoin and polnareff died because they got involved in things he should have handled on his own. what kind of friend lets that happen? even if they are miraculously here and alive, that just gives him more reason to not get near them again. ]
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[ obviously there's something going on with that when he's talking to his teenage daughter. hearing avdol and polnareff's names spoken aloud for the first time in years makes his nervous energy in him spike up. he nearly decides to pull his hand away from her, but he does need the chroma no matter how little it is. he has to consciously think to not squeeze because he's afraid he might give her a death grip by accident. ]
There's a lot about my life you don't know. I'm confident in that despite your age -- there are things I promised to never tell you.
So when I say I don't have friends I mean it.
[ avdol, kakyoin and polnareff died because they got involved in things he should have handled on his own. what kind of friend lets that happen? even if they are miraculously here and alive, that just gives him more reason to not get near them again. ]