... People die for all sort of reasons. Lots of boring reasons. We fought monsters born from human minds every day and some guy died because he took a bullet. But they do. And it's always sudden.
You said you didn't want to see any more kids die. I don't either. But I've watched enough parents die, too. Don't join them. Please.
[Hi there, just. Going to casually turn the conversation somewhere else. Because there's just too much there to unpack, otherwise. Too much to work through.]
[He knows people die for shitty reasons all the time. He's seen that, too. But, hey. Let's focus on something else.]
Never thought that's what anyone'd ever consider a guy like me.
[Bull focusing on that part of his response is, well, surprising. Ken almost replies with a "huh?" but his mind catches up with his words fast enough to stop him.
Something wells up in him at that. He can't say he doesn't understand. He never thought he could get this close to his housemates when he first met him. He feels almost guilty, remembering he thought of Nonah, number five, as no more than a convenient hiding place from SEES when he didn't want to see them as often. But now, these people are as irreplaceable as his teammates. There isn't a single person he knows who isn't irreplaceable, and Bull and Charlie had especially been with him since day one.]
There's-- there's a lot of stuff we don't expect. Even I didn't. If you and Charlie hadn't been there... I don't know if I'd be here today.
[Ken used to hate it. Why couldn't people leave him alone? Why did everyone insisting on befriending him? On forgiving him, on accepting him? But now that he'd pushed them away as far as he could and still had them want him back... after going through hell and back at home, he thinks he understands it. Magicman had been right: people will like each other no matter how they feel about deserving that love.
This must be the same too.]
Mr Bull, we've all gained a lot of things that we never thought we'd have, haven't we?
I didn't have anything before I came here. At least, I thought I didn't. So I'm grateful now. Even if we get ported out for real one day... what happened here still happened.
I never expected our house to get that loud though.
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You said you didn't want to see any more kids die. I don't either. But I've watched enough parents die, too. Don't join them. Please.
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[Hi there, just. Going to casually turn the conversation somewhere else. Because there's just too much there to unpack, otherwise. Too much to work through.]
[He knows people die for shitty reasons all the time. He's seen that, too. But, hey. Let's focus on something else.]
Never thought that's what anyone'd ever consider a guy like me.
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Something wells up in him at that. He can't say he doesn't understand. He never thought he could get this close to his housemates when he first met him. He feels almost guilty, remembering he thought of Nonah, number five, as no more than a convenient hiding place from SEES when he didn't want to see them as often. But now, these people are as irreplaceable as his teammates. There isn't a single person he knows who isn't irreplaceable, and Bull and Charlie had especially been with him since day one.]
There's-- there's a lot of stuff we don't expect. Even I didn't. If you and Charlie hadn't been there... I don't know if I'd be here today.
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Really didn't think a Qunari'd ever be that way to anyone.
[At least, not in the family sense. Plenty of Qunari are important to each other. But there's never really... family. Not outside of the Tamassrans.]
[Tama...]
[He's calmed down considerably, now. At least, verbally. This was definitely a better change of topic.]
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[Ken used to hate it. Why couldn't people leave him alone? Why did everyone insisting on befriending him? On forgiving him, on accepting him? But now that he'd pushed them away as far as he could and still had them want him back... after going through hell and back at home, he thinks he understands it. Magicman had been right: people will like each other no matter how they feel about deserving that love.
This must be the same too.]
Mr Bull, we've all gained a lot of things that we never thought we'd have, haven't we?
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[It's true, but... not the whole story. That's what being family is, right? What he's heard of it, anyway. The good and the bad. Right?]
[But hey, he's not the Iron Bull without a little levity in serious talks.]
Seems that way, huh?
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I never expected our house to get that loud though.
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Hey, if we're ever too loud, bang on the wall.
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Thanks for the heads up though. If I ever mind it, I'll let you know.
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Good.