[As with the art gallery, Hinata manages to summon up an expression that shows more horror than he actually feels. Some of what Scorpius says isn't far off from things SHSL Despair themselves tried to do: the breeding, the torture, the murders. The rest... some of it is novel, at least, enough to actually disturb him. Experimentation, too, still seems to be a button that can be pushed, and the frisson of distress he feels when Scorpius says the word excites him as much as it makes his heart sink, in the part of his soul that's still excited to be able to feel anything.
And he knows, he still knows, that even when the reason is something like this, it doesn't matter. He still can't go and torture people into letting him commit genocide.
Can't he? the dark voice says. Shouldn't he? Hinata grits his teeth against it.]
That's... that's terrible. [It's sincere -- even if he's seen it all from the other side, that doesn't make it not terrible.]
I can see, now, why you'd want to... I get that much.
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Date: 2014-03-02 10:08 pm (UTC)And he knows, he still knows, that even when the reason is something like this, it doesn't matter. He still can't go and torture people into letting him commit genocide.
Can't he? the dark voice says. Shouldn't he? Hinata grits his teeth against it.]
That's... that's terrible. [It's sincere -- even if he's seen it all from the other side, that doesn't make it not terrible.]
I can see, now, why you'd want to... I get that much.