[A moment. Jun's voice is still a bit shaky when he speaks.]
Guilt implies regret, Sinbad. I very rarely regret my choices--someone has to make them, and it might as well be me.
[He's not going to explain what he means by that, even if Sinbad asks.]
And it's not even that my past is troubled. With the exception of only surviving birth in exchange for being signed away as a baby to Bloom, my youth was, for the most part, idyllic. Bloom left me alone until I was seventeen and an adult. I am simply that sort of man, Sinbad.
[A pause, and then he sighs.]
And men--animals like me don't get what they want. We're not living a faerie tale.
[ The words are swift and fierce, coming immediately after Jun says that, and there's just as much conviction in his tone now as when he'd said those same words to Aspen. ]
You are a person - just like me, just like Aspen - with emotions and hopes and fears and longing and everything else. We might not be living in a faerie tale, Jun, but that doesn't mean you can't have what you want.
It doesn't mean that those who care for you won't go to great lengths to see that you do receive what you want. because we want to give it to you.
But it does. And I appreciate what you're trying to say, Sinbad, but that doesn't change anything. I never get what I want. I never have. I've accepted that I never will.
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Date: 2019-04-27 05:31 am (UTC)Guilt implies regret, Sinbad. I very rarely regret my choices--someone has to make them, and it might as well be me.
[He's not going to explain what he means by that, even if Sinbad asks.]
And it's not even that my past is troubled. With the exception of only surviving birth in exchange for being signed away as a baby to Bloom, my youth was, for the most part, idyllic. Bloom left me alone until I was seventeen and an adult. I am simply that sort of man, Sinbad.
[A pause, and then he sighs.]
And men--animals like me don't get what they want. We're not living a faerie tale.
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Date: 2019-04-27 05:36 am (UTC)[ The words are swift and fierce, coming immediately after Jun says that, and there's just as much conviction in his tone now as when he'd said those same words to Aspen. ]
You are a person - just like me, just like Aspen - with emotions and hopes and fears and longing and everything else. We might not be living in a faerie tale, Jun, but that doesn't mean you can't have what you want.
It doesn't mean that those who care for you won't go to great lengths to see that you do receive what you want. because we want to give it to you.
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Date: 2019-04-27 04:33 pm (UTC)But it does. And I appreciate what you're trying to say, Sinbad, but that doesn't change anything. I never get what I want. I never have. I've accepted that I never will.
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Date: 2019-04-28 11:05 pm (UTC)Then I'm going to very much enjoy proving you wrong.
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Date: 2019-04-28 11:06 pm (UTC)Oh, please do. That'd be a first.
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Date: 2019-04-28 11:20 pm (UTC)[ There's fond amusement in his voice at that, and he certainly sounds confident in his chances. ]
But either way, I owe you a great deal of thanks for your little.... 'intervention' with Ja'far. I will have to show you my appreciation.
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