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[demon_brat]

Does it not occur to you that it may be for the better? I would prove beyond the shadow of a doubt what I chose and what matters to me, and there won't be anyone who can undo it. No more questions.

Just... peace.

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[demon_brat]

... actually, there is at least one future where I do that. [Shrugs.] I am not that terribly fond of rest.

[It's peace that is the problem. That wasn't made particularly possible by his upbringing.]

The place was not that bad. But losing the last of my family is not something I want to stand unnecessarily.

[hart_or_hand]

You're too young to have to deal with that.

[It's too bad he doesn't know who all's behind this mess. They'd never know what hit them.]

It got worse after you left.

And you shouldn't have to. Let me know if there's anything I can do.

[demon_brat]

>Tt.< People keep believing that.

[Yeaaah. Well. It's part of life.]

I am aware. But bad circumstances are to be endured, then prevailed against. [Really. It was having to blow up the zombie of the child version of his mentor that broke him in the other game, nothing like actual horrors. Damian is complicated.]

Thanks, but I've got it.

[hart_or_hand]

I didn't say you're too young to be able to. But you shouldn't have to. Some adults need to realize that.

Damian, needing help doesn't make you weak.

[demon_brat]

No use regretting spilled milk. I am what I am.

[Staaaare.]

Of course it does.

[hart_or_hand]

Am I weak because I couldn't stop do a whole ritual alone? There are some things no one can do without help. And sometimes it takes strength to ask for help.

[demon_brat]

[Damian... looks away. But still, his answer is what he believes, what he's been conditioned to believe.]

Yes. If I had failed to do that on my own, I would consider myself weak. And so would others.

[Starting with his mother.]

[hart_or_hand]

Then those others wouldn't know what they were talking about. [He's pretty sure said others are the reason the kid thinks like this. And that pisses him off.] You do realize most people couldn't even handle half of what you've gone through. You're stronger than some grown men I've known.

[demon_brat]

[Lindsey would not be wrong.]

Sometimes they wouldn't. Sometimes they would.

[Damian looks up.]

More than others is not enough. I should be perfect. That means not failing.

Sorry this is so late

[hart_or_hand]

[He's not going to comment on that now.]

Being less than perfect is part of being human.

Aws!

[demon_brat]

Then perhaps I was not supposed to be human. Not in that sense of the word.

[Grumpy little badger is a go?]

[hart_or_hand]

You'd rather be a vampire? Or a hell god?

[demon_brat]

... not everything is that simple or clear-cut.

[hart_or_hand]

No, but I figured you wouldn't want to be an anagogic demon who won't fight.

[demon_brat]

You got that part right.

[hart_or_hand]

But really, Damien. You're human. Not metahuman, not some kind of demon, not Timelord. And even they have to ask for help sometimes.