Better for what? For the people that only cared about us for what we could do for them? For the people that tell us nobody deserves to die, but don't care about the lives they destroy just because they're not killing them?
[His frown is heavy, though still somehow more of a pout. Maybe he just wasn't very good at looking intimidating, but there was still a bit of bitterness in the back of his words.]
We're... trying to do better. Less violent... Less destructive. [He takes his hand back, fiddling with the sleeve of his sweater on his opposite arm as that hand retreated inside.] But that's for us. That's because we wanted a path forward instead of still circling the drain, to atone for what we did. Not because... we regretted everything, or because we thought we should be normal people who know better.
[When Nanami's looking up, he holds out the hand covered by the end of his sleeve, gently wiping the tears from her cheeks despite the dark words coming out of his mouth.]
It's the world's cruelty that made us feel that way. It's because... you th-think a bunch of trash like us deserve to be treated better. Things like what we both did in the TV world, I don't like going that far... but I don't think it's wrong to be angry when everyone else isn't even trying to be better.
cw: kind of despair ideology i think that should be a content warning tbh
[His frown is heavy, though still somehow more of a pout. Maybe he just wasn't very good at looking intimidating, but there was still a bit of bitterness in the back of his words.]
We're... trying to do better. Less violent... Less destructive. [He takes his hand back, fiddling with the sleeve of his sweater on his opposite arm as that hand retreated inside.] But that's for us. That's because we wanted a path forward instead of still circling the drain, to atone for what we did. Not because... we regretted everything, or because we thought we should be normal people who know better.
[When Nanami's looking up, he holds out the hand covered by the end of his sleeve, gently wiping the tears from her cheeks despite the dark words coming out of his mouth.]
It's the world's cruelty that made us feel that way. It's because... you th-think a bunch of trash like us deserve to be treated better. Things like what we both did in the TV world, I don't like going that far... but I don't think it's wrong to be angry when everyone else isn't even trying to be better.