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( GENJI IS WITH YOU )
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[smokedout]

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.

[flowlikewater]

One could argue I'm alive against my will too, when you think about it. [ It's just sort of a non-statement, a curious thought. Genji gets a little grimmer suddenly, mouth setting into a line with a click. ]

I grieved for that man. I'm not sure I can ever forgive him for that.

[ He listens to Dodger's little backstory, interested. He is still not very surprised and still finds himself understanding it to an extent. Genji had been nothing without the clan, without his family's influence. His father spoiled him and got him out of every scrape imaginable... and then Father was gone and he was a disgrace overnight. ]

Learning to understand kindness is enough of a lesson in and of itself. And having to face the consequences to your actions for the first time is sobering indeed.

[ He huffs. ] That does not surprise me though. Reyes was always good at training helplessness out of people.

[ Another pause. ] I know that Shigeru is rather an elephant in the room for us...

[smokedout]

[He grunts in response, silent for a while as he stews in all this new information. Funny... he used to love information, but learning so much about himself makes his skin crawl.]

I'm not getting rid of you, am I. [He sighs.] Last time I tried to get Shigeru to ditch you, he almost killed me. So, I'm done causing you trouble - even I know better than to start a fight I already lost.

[Do you, Dodger. Do you really.]

I know Shigeru's already yours. Just- we never ended what we.. have. So.