[Good! He'll squeeze Wesker's hand a bit at that.]
I think I understand. I wouldn't want to go back to my world either; I'm far too attached to my life here! But it certainly would be nice for our worlds to exist again, ja?
Even if it were an option, it wouldn't seem right for me to go there. It doesn't sit well with me.
[Even if the argument were to be made that unreality would have apparently destroyed the place anyway, he did give it the old college try and absolutely managed to shit things up pretty well on his own.]
Besides, I prefer my life here as well; there's nothing for me there anymore.
[Trying to end the world is one of those things where it's surprisingly easy to not do it. Most people go their entire lives without trying to incite Ragnarok? Who the fuck knew.]
I'll be fine regardless of where I end up. As long as you're with me I don't particularly care where we are.
[This is nice, in a strange sort of way; unfamiliar and a bit overwhelming, but that also means that for the time being his emotions aren't completely malfunctioning and so it's just...nice all around.]
A bit belated, but I take back what I said about you.
An apology is more than what you deserve for hearing such a rant from me on your "evil nature." I could blame it on the memories I received when we spoke, and perhaps, likening you to the man I saw. Yet that is an excuse.
If you aren't busy, I'd like to take you up on that talking thing. It's fine if it's just like this, though. Preferable. My thoughts come together easier in typing than they do out loud.
Of course, you may. It must seems a little unnatural. But I was musing over our last few conversations. I realized a person that could be soften by the efforts and care of others could not be evil. That a person that wishes to offer some light to those struggling in the dark could not be considered heartless.
Upon this realization, I came to realize my own words have been mostly unfair.
I'm not entirely sure where to begin, so I suppose I'll preface this simply: I condone nothing my other self has done, I loathe him for it, but I also can't help but feel some amount of pity for his situation as well. What he did was wrong and I am more than able to recognize that, though I will always look to society to see what fault lies there as well.
For two and a half years of his life, from the ages of approximately 14-15 to 17, he played the part of hitman for his father in order to bring that man to the top of the political sphere and then tear him down by revealing his identity as his bastard son. I... can't rightly explain the methods he used, but he was able to take down opposition in both a lethal and non-lethal way; it would seem he primarily did the latter, but he certainly wasn't against getting his hands dirty if necessary.
The plan failed, by the way. His father already knew of his eventual betrayal. By other circumstances, and through more noble means, that Goro Akechi died... or at least, had a probable death. I can't see how he may have survived.
While I had suspicions regarding one, I learned recently that two of the people I've come to know lost parents by his hand, one of whom is a dear friend of mine and the other something like a sister to another. So I feel some level of obligation to both to atone for that, along with the wrong he did to the others that I know, and, frankly speaking, though it is childish, it isn't fair that things in that life matter in this. I've heard plenty of people have the opinion that they don't, and I would even like to share that myself, but
well, murder is a little harder to dismiss, even in a different life.
To start with, I do understand - completely and utterly, really. My own memories aren't the same as yours, but I've committed various atrocities myself that are incredibly difficult to reconcile with my life now, and even more difficult to dismiss.
If you had to decide for yourself, in terms of fair judgement - what would you consider proper atonement for what happened? Do you believe such a thing is possible in this life, or is it more a matter of directionless guilt without any potential resolution?
I'd like it if he'd managed it himself, of course, but he didn't live long enough to do so, and I'd hardly count sacrificing himself proper atonement considering he had no other choice; it was that or return with them and go to jail for various charges even outside of murder, life ruined with little hope of reconciliation...
I don't know. It feels more like the latter, since even if there was a proper atonement for what happened I don't really want to deal with it, but I will. I don't know if I deserve to have the chance at redemption for his life either, or if others expect it of me, but I can't just pretend that it has nothing to do with me. It's not right.
Others will likely try to argue that those actions weren't carried out by you - that they aren't yours to atone for in the first place. They mean well when they say things like that.
It never does help. But they mean well.
My first memory after I was brought onto the network involved murdering someone. An old man in a wheelchair; he had several IVs in place, among other things. There was no way he could have possibly fought back against me; I grabbed him and I killed him. Severe trauma to the chest. I found out later that he deserved it, but that doesn't change the knowledge that I murdered someone; I could have left him to his death of natural causes, which wasn't long off from the look of it, but I chose to kill him instead.
Things actually escalated from there, in terms of the severity of my actions. I believe I died eventually, but it's likely I died unrepentant, trying to bring at least two other people down with me.
I don't believe it's fair for me to have to answer for what I did in that past life, because my circumstances were so different then. But the fact remains that people died because of me, and other lives were ruined because of me, and it doesn't seem right to disregard all of that simply because I don't think it's fair that I need to answer for my own actions.
It's never as simple as "But it wasn't you who did those things," not when the actions in question were so severe.
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