I’d say you’re llucky, but ... [ Duo scrunches his nose up as if saying he doesn’t want to go that far considering the risks involved and all of that mess. It seems off color to call a process that could’ve killed him something that makes him “lucky” by any means. He could’ve been a dead unfortunate soul had things gone differently on those surgeries, after all.
Typically he wouldn’t bother to be so open about a weakness such as that - he’d never once talked to anyone about his previous experiences with torture from the war for instance. Then he hasn’t even blinked about it. This was war - there was no room for things like emotions or lingering. Yes, things still came back to him in his sleep from time to time but from the way he understood it, that happened to most people who had ever experienced war up close and personal like he and his fellow Gundam pilots had. Until you’d looked someone in the eyes as you shot them there was nothing like that.
At least so far as how it stores in his mind.
A shoulder raises in that instinctive, lame shrug again. ]
Like I said, I’m operational. Just .. working through I guess.
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I’d say you’re llucky, but ... [ Duo scrunches his nose up as if saying he doesn’t want to go that far considering the risks involved and all of that mess. It seems off color to call a process that could’ve killed him something that makes him “lucky” by any means. He could’ve been a dead unfortunate soul had things gone differently on those surgeries, after all.
Typically he wouldn’t bother to be so open about a weakness such as that - he’d never once talked to anyone about his previous experiences with torture from the war for instance. Then he hasn’t even blinked about it. This was war - there was no room for things like emotions or lingering. Yes, things still came back to him in his sleep from time to time but from the way he understood it, that happened to most people who had ever experienced war up close and personal like he and his fellow Gundam pilots had. Until you’d looked someone in the eyes as you shot them there was nothing like that.
At least so far as how it stores in his mind.
A shoulder raises in that instinctive, lame shrug again. ]
Like I said, I’m operational. Just .. working through I guess.