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prismatica2020-04-05 07:35 pm
triggerhappytraitor) wrote in prismatica2020-04-05 07:35 pm
Text [Username: KRen]
[[Using a throw away account to attempt to be... at least a little bit more anon than he would be otherwise.]]
How can you tell if someone's resolve to be different than they were in the past is true?
And how do you stop thinking about someone who ruined your life.
How can you tell if someone's resolve to be different than they were in the past is true?
And how do you stop thinking about someone who ruined your life.
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I'm not sure he even knows.
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What do you believe will come of believing in this man's change?
Is it merely being sure that you don't have to watch their actions?
Or does he wish to be a part of your life again?
I wish I could say that starting a new, different life would be a path to no longer thinking of him. But even if you manage it, there's no way to avoid him here.
[Not that he managed it even in the big, open world back home.]
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[[and he if he knew how to do that he wouldn't have half the problems he does.
There's a bit of a pause before a second reply finally answers that first set of questions.]]
Back home, my close friend asked me to believe that someone in a similar situation could change. That he could be as human as anyone else. It took me far too long to be able to see past what I had been told and see that he was right.
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Maybe it's easier for me to believe in him because I didn't suffer as a result of his actions.
What has this man you speak of done so far that shows a sign of humanity?
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...as for the question...]]
He wanted to understand.
[[More than anything else Isaka had said or done, the simple action of asking -- not why he had been defeated, but why Tachibana himself had not been able to move on from that moment, 15 years later. That moment when the impassive, always in control mask of expression had begun to falter and the seed of understanding and realization had begun to take hold.]]
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That means being open to the possibility of him deceiving you, and deciding if that's a price you could pay for the chance of creating more good in this world.
Thinking of it that way makes any choice easier, I believe. What benefits he might reap are irrelevant as long as you tried to do something that would help all of the people.
[Maybe an ordinary person would choose to distance himself and let this other man find their own way if he claims to want to change, but Xiao Xingchen can't believe in letting things sort themselves out when he has a chance to do something.
But he also might just have low self-esteem.]
Forgive me, but I must also admit I don't know much about the ways of the world. I often get too involved in the business of others.
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Even knowing he could just be trying to manipulate me again, I don't want to give up the hope that even someone like him can change for the better.
[[And what that could mean for their world when the Fight was inevitably started up once more.]]
Thank you.
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[It's a difficult path, but this is the kind of calling for people who want to save the world, isn't it?]
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[[That it is, friend. That it is.]]