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I won't do anything that's going to hurt you. I can promise you that much.

I know. That's why it was an afterthought! I'm really not worried about that.

Good.

I'll be fine, Jaeger, you don't have to worry about me. I know what I can handle and what I can't, for the most part.

I'm glad to hear it. You know I'll always worry about you anyway, though!

[That's gentle, though. He will worry, sure, but he's been a lot less worried overall lately.]

Someone has to look out for me, I suppose.

[no...fear...response...]

I'm honored that you'll let me~!

I don't see any reason not to.

Good, I'm glad! I always will do my best to do what I can for you, after all!

I know you will.

[...god, just. let him have these incredibly vague handwaved waffles because this is...nice? it's just a weird sort of nice that's kind of odd to deal with all at once.]

[Yes, yes, he'll let you eat your vague handwaved waffle in peace, he's not going to continue to be Aggressively Himself while we're eating. But boy is he looking forward to seeing what sort of building we're going to get up on this evening!!]

[look these are just some really good waffles okay

they have strawberries.

Anyway... The evening is actually pretty okay outside tonight, it's been warming up and it isn't frigid put when they finally do leave. Wesker doesn't have a particular location in mind, but he does seem to be paying attention to their surroundings.]

...Sometimes I wonder what you would think of my memories that aren't abjectly terrible. I used these sorts of powers to get into a plane that was taking off once.

[It's one of the more surreal ones, as memories go, just because he was also poisoned out of his mind, but still.]

Really? That sounds incredible. Your powers really are something else, ja?

[They're amazing and he's absolutely jealous.]

I mostly used them for combat purposes. But I did enjoy them quite a bit, even so.

[He can sort of see why he preferred being like this, if he didn't have reason to be bothered by the whole dying thing.]

...I still don't entirely understand why some of us would attempt the large transformations, especially if there wasn't a guarantee that it would go well. [birkin.] But if the feeling of power that comes with it is at all the same, I suppose I can see it.

I think I can understand that too, though obviously I'm looking at it from an outsider's perspective. Still, the things you're capable of... well, they're amazing! Having power like that really would be incredible. Not that I'm condoning the massive transformations, but I can see where it might be a good idea in the heat of the moment.

[If what Birkin turned into was any indication, it's actually a terrible fucking idea?? Goddamn.]

[He has no idea why Birkin's came out like that, honestly; he knows it was due to a different virus than his own, but...god, nothing about the thing Birkin ended up as was okay.]

I suppose if one has access to something powerful like that, it would be pointless not to do so; besides, it feels good to use the powers the viruses give you. Or at least, it does to me, and most people that have them seem to enjoy themselves on some level or another. I know Sergei did, and so did that woman I've told you about - her name was Alexia. If it's involuntary, things tend to go a bit differently, obviously; I've actually never seen a case of involuntary infection go well, now that I think about it.

...I have to wonder if the viruses can tell, somehow.

[...He works in pharmaceutical research and development, he knows how stupid that sounds. Viruses don't think, as far as anyone can tell, and even if they did they have very little reason to care about what their host thinks of them. Just the same, involuntary infections never go well; voluntary ones tend to work out, for a given degree of "working out."

...Shit's weird.]

That honestly wouldn't surprise me at all. Your world was a very different place, so that sort of thing could have been possible, ja?

[It sounds sort of stupid, yeah, but it would make sense... Well, some sense, at least. The entire thing is still kind of ridiculous in general.]

I suppose. I seemed to be operating under the assumption that Uroboros would be impartial, but perhaps I modified it to be such...?

[...Dear god. He lobotomized it.]

[You lobotomized your virus, good work???]

That sounds difficult, but you were working on it for a long time, weren't you?

...I believe so, yes. I'm not sure how long it was, exactly, but I get the feeling it had been in development for at least as long as I knew Excella, which I believe was a few years.

[It's decidedly easier to discuss Excella nowadays, thankfully.]

[He's glad it is...]

Perhaps that's what you were doing all that time, then. It's certainly a possibility, isn't it?

Possibly... Granted, with a project that large, I can see where it would have taken some time regardless of what I was doing with it.

Ja, that's true! It certainly does sound like it would have taken quite a long time to get the results you were looking for.

[He just offers a quiet assenting noise at that for a moment, keeping his gaze high toward the buildings nearby.]

I know I've only really experienced things like that in memories, but it's...good, to not want that now.

It was consuming back then; I didn't have anything or anyone else. I have so much more now; I'm grateful for it.

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[Jaeger smiles a bit at that.]

I'm glad to hear that. I want you to be happy, you know! It really does mean so much to me that you have more now.

I'm happy, Jaeger. Absolutely.

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