Guess he gave up, when he died... I guess if I was alive against my will I wouldn't wanna be babysitting either.
[He does wilt a bit, though, at the same moment that Genji seems to swell.]
Iunno if he didn't wanna put in the effort, or.. he just figured I was a lost cause. But he could've killed me loads of times and didn't, so that's gotta count for something, right? [He hesitates.] I even kissed him, and he let me live. Fuck knows why.
[Probably because Dodger was right from the beginning; Reaper isn't a villain. He's not a heartless psychopath like the sort of people Dodger hangs around, and that had confused Dodger for months until he started spending all his time around people that weren't the forgotten dregs of society. Now it seems... too late, to be realizing it.]
That's the problem, though, isn't it. I've never been on my own this long. I got- passed from hand to hand, growing up, always stuck by someone until it blew up on me and I had to move on. And- Reaper got pissed at me for it all the time, that I didn't know how to take care of myself, I kept expecting someone else to clean up my messes and tell me what to do, and... set rules and shit. I can live for someone else, sure, but not.. the kinda people that come through the portal. Not people like... Reaper... or... Shigeru.
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[He does wilt a bit, though, at the same moment that Genji seems to swell.]
Iunno if he didn't wanna put in the effort, or.. he just figured I was a lost cause. But he could've killed me loads of times and didn't, so that's gotta count for something, right? [He hesitates.] I even kissed him, and he let me live. Fuck knows why.
[Probably because Dodger was right from the beginning; Reaper isn't a villain. He's not a heartless psychopath like the sort of people Dodger hangs around, and that had confused Dodger for months until he started spending all his time around people that weren't the forgotten dregs of society. Now it seems... too late, to be realizing it.]
That's the problem, though, isn't it. I've never been on my own this long. I got- passed from hand to hand, growing up, always stuck by someone until it blew up on me and I had to move on. And- Reaper got pissed at me for it all the time, that I didn't know how to take care of myself, I kept expecting someone else to clean up my messes and tell me what to do, and... set rules and shit. I can live for someone else, sure, but not.. the kinda people that come through the portal. Not people like... Reaper... or... Shigeru.