▌ ENTRY: week 0. sunday. jae-ha.

[function]

[ after the execution, 2b's going to linger and quietly approach jae-ha when it seems like everyone else has funneled out of the foyer. ]

Looks like you didn't need to fight for it after all.

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[alttitude]

It's almost disappointing that I didn't get to -

I'm not really in the habit of leaving my fate to other people.

[of course he still has something to take issue with]

[function]

Would you rather have killed her yourself?

[alttitude]

[It's a startlingly direct question.

... and he finds himself looking away.]

... No. I don't think I could have done that either.

[function]

Hm.

[ 2b = "too blunt." ]

You're surprisingly gentle.

[alttitude]

I enjoy a good fight as much as anyone.

[Probably more than most, actually but - ]

... but I don't like being forced to do something against my standards of beauty.

[function]

Standards of beauty?

[alttitude]

[With confidence:]

The way in which I choose to live my life - on my terms, the way that I deem to be beautiful and worth living for. I disagree with anything ugly, that goes against those standards I've decided.

And choosing to harm a young girl, who felt like she'd been cornered.... would be one of those things I could not do.

[function]

Even though you knew, without a doubt, that she murdered someone close to you?

[alttitude]

That kind of single-minded revenge.... the Captain would've never given that kind of order to begin with.

[and he has no intention of disappointing his mom]

[function]

[ she ruminates on that for a while, trying her best to comprehend his (and, by extension, gi-gan's) logic.

she crosses her arms. ]

Maybe it's because killing is all I know.

[alttitude]

[ . . . Jae-ha tilts his head.]

... well, here it doesn't have to be.

Would you like to learn something new?

[function]

[ she can't help but to bark out a humorless laugh. ]

I think, of all places, the ability to kill is a requirement here.

[alttitude]

[But:]

At this moment, do you intend to kill me?

[function]

[ it's a good thing her eyes are always covered, because it's easier to hide her surprise that way. ]

No.

[alttitude]

Then at this moment, between the two of us, can be time spent learning something besides killing.

[It seems so painfully simple -

But he sounds sincere.]

[function]

[ she's quiet. even when she does finally respond, her voice isn't as forceful as it usually is. ]

Why are you so interested in teaching me these things?

[alttitude]

Because I know what it's like to be told that you're only good for one thing.

[Or - nothing.]

... but I got to expand my world past that, and I think it would be a beautiful thing if you were able to also.

[function]

Even someone like me, who's specifically programmed for that one thing?

[alttitude]

I don't know much about programming... or androids...

[He'll be honest.]

But if it's - like being told that you were only meant for one destiny, to have your blood tell you that you're supposed to focus on only what you've been told and nothing else...

Sort of like being written into a path you don't want...

I think you can defy it, if you chose to.

[function]

[ hm. ]

"Destiny"... ha.

[ in an unprecedented move, she reaches behind her head and removes her visor to let jae-ha see the distant look in her eyes. ]

If you think about it like that... it's a good thing I don't believe in fate anyway.

[alttitude]

[ . . . and he just laughs.]

One of my companions wears a mask at all times, to cover his eyes. He never lets me see them, even if they're rumored to be more beautiful than anything else on the planet.

But I think I'm rather lucky, just getting to see yours.

[function]

Yeah, you're right on that one.

[ flattery will get you nowhere, you fool. still, the sarcasm bites only a little bit. ]

... Sometimes I forget what the world looks like without it on.

[alttitude]

[look she's beautiful and he has to comment]

What do you think? I wonder if it's a bit... brighter.