[Does he want to mope? Yes. Yes he does. But he knows that won't help, so.]
I've been trying really hard the entire time, you know? Ever since day one! I've been telling them again and again, 'don't do anything stupid', 'no killing people', 'it's not worth it, we just have to keep living'. But every time I think I finally got through to 'em, something else happens. Someone gets possessed by a shadow, or someone dies, or someone disappears on a Thursday and comes back all beat up, or...
He leans against a wall and listens to Rin having an incredibly bad time.]
You can't blame people for gettin' possessed. [Bradley punched Diluc not that long ago.] And the Thursdays are apparently the Nightguy's doing. Least nobody died on those, thanks to the programmin' or what ever.
[About Hua Cheng. Well, he wasn't that close with Sylvain or anything but Rin sure seems to be taking this one hard.] People make decisions. You can hate them as much as you want, but it ain't gonna undo whatever damage they caused. Who's dead is dead. What happened happened.
When all ya can do is move forward, that's what you do.
[ man... he feels bad for rin, but... god he really thinks his friends suck. and he's especially mad about this one because that jerk apparently had the gall to lecture him at that meeting on sunday after killing the only person he'd shared a previous game with (of his own volition!). and he'd tried to frame shinobu for it on top of everything!!
...he holds himself back from saying anything about it though, since he can tell rin's already aware of how messed up it is and is upset about it. ]
[Sometimes all the adults around you are stinky and have murder hands and you keep trying to stop their murder hands but apparently it doesn't work :<]
The worst part is, he might've done it to protect me and Diluc. But he's so stubborn and won't ever say anything, so I'll never know. At least if he'd admit to it then I could yell at him for being stubborn.
After Kaeya died, we sat down as a group. The five of us from the same game. Hua Cheng asked all of us if we would defend ourselves if we got attacked on a Thursday night. Diluc and I both said no. I dunno Diluc's reasons, but I've always been saying mine: unless a shadow forces me to, I won't kill anyone. Never again.
So...I guess if he thought Sylvain would attack either of us, that'd explain why he would attack Sylvain.
I dunno. Sylvain was never mean to me or anything, I don't think he would've tried to kill me. But I'm trying to think of all the reasons why Hua Cheng might kill someone. He's a lot of things, but he's not someone who just kills for no reason.
I suppose we won't know for sure until we can hear him explain himself... I still can't believe he'd do that without having his hand forced in some way...
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[You're really not looking great, kiddo.]
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I've been trying really hard the entire time, you know? Ever since day one! I've been telling them again and again, 'don't do anything stupid', 'no killing people', 'it's not worth it, we just have to keep living'. But every time I think I finally got through to 'em, something else happens. Someone gets possessed by a shadow, or someone dies, or someone disappears on a Thursday and comes back all beat up, or...
[Well. Everyone saw the letter.]
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He leans against a wall and listens to Rin having an incredibly bad time.]
You can't blame people for gettin' possessed. [Bradley punched Diluc not that long ago.] And the Thursdays are apparently the Nightguy's doing. Least nobody died on those, thanks to the programmin' or what ever.
[About Hua Cheng. Well, he wasn't that close with Sylvain or anything but Rin sure seems to be taking this one hard.] People make decisions. You can hate them as much as you want, but it ain't gonna undo whatever damage they caused. Who's dead is dead. What happened happened.
When all ya can do is move forward, that's what you do.
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[But there is a giant eyepatched-elephant in the room, and Rin hates it.]
...I told him not to. I told him to promise that he wouldn't, so long as he wasn't possessed and wasn't protecting someone else. But...
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[There's nothing held over their head.]
Any idea who his hostage is? Likely he's thinking he was protectin' somebody anyway.
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[ Thinks about jail for .5 seconds and immediately pulls his thoughts away from that. ]
He thought it was worth it.
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[Nero.......]
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...he holds himself back from saying anything about it though, since he can tell rin's already aware of how messed up it is and is upset about it. ]
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The worst part is, he might've done it to protect me and Diluc. But he's so stubborn and won't ever say anything, so I'll never know. At least if he'd admit to it then I could yell at him for being stubborn.
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So...I guess if he thought Sylvain would attack either of us, that'd explain why he would attack Sylvain.
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[...]
I suppose we won't know for sure until we can hear him explain himself... I still can't believe he'd do that without having his hand forced in some way...
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I think... you've probably got enough you can yell at him about already.
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[It's just. Hard. To yell at someone you have come to respect and admire.]