[He barely gets the words out before Barry yells, strides forward and grabs him, and Taako’s heart leaps into his throat in panic. It’s another impossible choice, like Magnus storming in drunk, yelling about his wife, pulling him from the couch by the front of his shirt and his neck before dropping him on the floor in a heap. It’s the moment he has to consider, could he hurt me?, and then realize he’s given too much trust. Too much assumption. Of course he could, of course. He’s a person, isn’t he? He means something. So of fucking course he could.
Taako watches Barry for the first few seconds before dropping his head off to one side, letting his hair fall slightly over his eyes. Barry can still clearly see the frown on his face, though it’s wibbling somewhere between downgrading to a tight line and upgrading to a scream.
But when we’re in the realm of brutal honesty, of those little, flat admissions of truth, he speaks again.]
How does anyone expect me to trust her again?
[Because that’s what it comes down to.It isn’t her choice so much as that cardinal violation. She went into his head. He let her in, past his walls and hesitations, and that’s what she did once inside. He doesn’t care about motivations. Doesn’t care about intentions. She put herself between him and Lup and how does he ever know she won’t do it again?]
She fuckin’… rewrote me, alright. Just like that.And all of you think it should just be okay.
[There’s a big difference in a world between one person loving you and no one ever doing so. And as far as Taako’s concerned, it’s a pile of corpses in the wake of the person she made him to be.]
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Taako watches Barry for the first few seconds before dropping his head off to one side, letting his hair fall slightly over his eyes. Barry can still clearly see the frown on his face, though it’s wibbling somewhere between downgrading to a tight line and upgrading to a scream.
But when we’re in the realm of brutal honesty, of those little, flat admissions of truth, he speaks again.]
How does anyone expect me to trust her again?
[Because that’s what it comes down to.It isn’t her choice so much as that cardinal violation. She went into his head. He let her in, past his walls and hesitations, and that’s what she did once inside. He doesn’t care about motivations. Doesn’t care about intentions. She put herself between him and Lup and how does he ever know she won’t do it again?]
She fuckin’… rewrote me, alright. Just like that.And all of you think it should just be okay.
[There’s a big difference in a world between one person loving you and no one ever doing so. And as far as Taako’s concerned, it’s a pile of corpses in the wake of the person she made him to be.]