PC: Yamato

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[WOW YEAH. that's really on the nose and she hates it.]

Th... that's not the only reason-- I mean, that's not the reason!

[ghoststrums]

[ there's kind of a silence because also, they are both bad liars and he shakes his head, challenging; ]

So what's the reason, then?

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I mentioned how I grew up alone, right? I couldn't rely on anyone. But it wasn't just that. The few people who did help always ended up having some ulterior motive. They didn't give a damn about me. Everyone... no matter what, they'd always betray me.

[there's a growing tension and bitterness alongside those memories.]

[ghoststrums]

So now it's easier to push them away before you get hurt again?

[ there's nothing mean about it despite how, yeah, this is a mean thing to say, only a kind of feeling of understanding. yamato didn't have it that hard, but that doesn't change that he recognizes those feelings perfectly.

and also that part of him is like, absolutely indignant people did that to rita ]

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... Something like that.

[yeah, she's not going to completely deny that.]

[ghoststrums]

I was the same, before the Digital World.

[ there's something a little sheepish because he still falls back to it sometimes, but he'll press on: ]

It's a pretty lonely way to live.

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Maybe.

[she has a bit of a kneejerk reaction to that, a defensive feeling.]

I always had the blastia, at least.

[ghoststrums]

I had music.

[ it didn't make him less lonely, he doesn't add, though now yamato thinks he has bullied Rita's feelings enough and there's a shrug as he draws back ]

I'm not saying what we went through was the same at all, or that we are, even. Just... I get it.

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[...!

there is a feeling of familiarity in what he says.]

... Hmph.

[ghoststrums]

[ ... he feels a little embarrassed to have said this to Rita, in the end. ]

... Well, all that was just to say, Catra reminded me of that, too. So it stands to reason the two of you clashed so much.