Yeah, but, like, in his case it's also more... [She gestures uselessly with her free hand, as if trying to come up with a way to say it without saying it.] Medical, like, not emotional.
[But... Action, huh? She can actually understand that better, acting is easier, has always been easier. And yet, there's something else that finally gets her attention.]
Wait, can there be, like, more than one version of a person here?!
[That's... Not good. She's not worried about future-selves appearing, she has no idea how those would be but she would deal with that. No, to problem would be a past self. The problem would be Angelique, could she be brought too? That would be another whole different can of worms that would make telling Carver everything seem like a moot point.]
[It would be such a can of worms that even if she told Carver everything, Angelique's arrival would be a potential disaster. And not just with Carver but with anyone she even talks to. It would be problematic even for her because she would have to face the possibility that Angelique was someone totally different than what she made her to be. And the terrifying part of that would be that others could have noticed and just not say anything for whatever reason.]
[That Angelique parents knew that their kid was gone.]
[She tries to listen and she does to an extent, but at the same time the thoughts keep piling up her mind and her face goes pale and haunted. She might be squeezing Rose's hand a bit more tightly, not enough to hurt but definitively more than it should be normal.]
So actions and words. It's both. Okay. I think I can understand that. Uhm...
[Wait, she's forgetting something. She closes her eyes and tries to focus again on the bridge she's in and not the ghost of one she had never considered possible to ever face.]
I, like, really want him to be happy. He has, like, the most wonderful laugh, you know? I love how it sounds but, like, it also sounds as if he didn't use it much before here. And when he's happy his eyes, like, have such a warm tone and you can, like, see the smile on them even when he isn't smiling. But, like, I also think I'm too selfish to help him be happy. I mean, like, I want him to be happy but I would rather he be happy with me. If, like, he can't be with me I don't care if he's not happy.
I'm not, like, very sure if that's evil or, like, just possessive.
Action / Everglade
[But... Action, huh? She can actually understand that better, acting is easier, has always been easier. And yet, there's something else that finally gets her attention.]
Wait, can there be, like, more than one version of a person here?!
[That's... Not good. She's not worried about future-selves appearing, she has no idea how those would be but she would deal with that. No, to problem would be a past self. The problem would be Angelique, could she be brought too? That would be another whole different can of worms that would make telling Carver everything seem like a moot point.]
[It would be such a can of worms that even if she told Carver everything, Angelique's arrival would be a potential disaster. And not just with Carver but with anyone she even talks to. It would be problematic even for her because she would have to face the possibility that Angelique was someone totally different than what she made her to be. And the terrifying part of that would be that others could have noticed and just not say anything for whatever reason.]
[That Angelique parents knew that their kid was gone.]
[She tries to listen and she does to an extent, but at the same time the thoughts keep piling up her mind and her face goes pale and haunted. She might be squeezing Rose's hand a bit more tightly, not enough to hurt but definitively more than it should be normal.]
So actions and words. It's both. Okay. I think I can understand that. Uhm...
[Wait, she's forgetting something. She closes her eyes and tries to focus again on the bridge she's in and not the ghost of one she had never considered possible to ever face.]
I, like, really want him to be happy. He has, like, the most wonderful laugh, you know? I love how it sounds but, like, it also sounds as if he didn't use it much before here. And when he's happy his eyes, like, have such a warm tone and you can, like, see the smile on them even when he isn't smiling. But, like, I also think I'm too selfish to help him be happy. I mean, like, I want him to be happy but I would rather he be happy with me. If, like, he can't be with me I don't care if he's not happy.
I'm not, like, very sure if that's evil or, like, just possessive.