[ Repayment is something he'd really wanted to do this time, too. Not let things be like how they were with Aunt Samantha - keep putting it off for more pressing things, meaning to let her know how grateful he was and then being left with the sentiment still unsaid when she died. And that's - a pang that hurts much deeper than anything any monster could do.
(His twenty-sixth birthday had been so quiet, and he hadn't realized how much he was waiting for that cake until it didn't arrive.)
All because of Maverick and his need for control that went from a show, to a person, to a city. A person that's been almost no better than an android at times, following programming to be a perfect sob story Hero, so grateful to its creator. And in some ways - maybe this is better.
What he doesn't realize is the way he'd been starting to slip, eyes beginning to close before jarring awake at the sound of Kotetsu's voice. The sound of the sob is a jolt, surprising enough to make him try to focus on Kotetsu again, because that's - it's not ridiculous, but it's more of a loss of composure than he's ever seen out of the other man, much less even considered him capable of. And calling him by name too, something that hasn't happened since that last Maverick incident when Barnaby tried to kill him... ]
Could be worse. [ Another cough, less severe as if from a lack of energy to sustain it. ] Old man.
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(His twenty-sixth birthday had been so quiet, and he hadn't realized how much he was waiting for that cake until it didn't arrive.)
All because of Maverick and his need for control that went from a show, to a person, to a city. A person that's been almost no better than an android at times, following programming to be a perfect sob story Hero, so grateful to its creator. And in some ways - maybe this is better.
What he doesn't realize is the way he'd been starting to slip, eyes beginning to close before jarring awake at the sound of Kotetsu's voice. The sound of the sob is a jolt, surprising enough to make him try to focus on Kotetsu again, because that's - it's not ridiculous, but it's more of a loss of composure than he's ever seen out of the other man, much less even considered him capable of. And calling him by name too, something that hasn't happened since that last Maverick incident when Barnaby tried to kill him... ]
Could be worse. [ Another cough, less severe as if from a lack of energy to sustain it. ] Old man.