[Clawed hands, dry and dead, take hold of Ryou's shoulders.]
Ryou, all you had to say was, "I don't want to!"
If you were asking me not to be the one to kill you for my sake, then I wanted you to understand how I felt...but what matters about your final wishes is what you want, not me. If you don't want it to be me, then that's that: we don't have to compromise! But, if you change your mind -- and you can change your mind -- you can ask me for it. But only if it becomes what you want.
[He's just....not going to dig into the self sacrifice Ryou remembers but he doesn't right now.
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[Clawed hands, dry and dead, take hold of Ryou's shoulders.]
Ryou, all you had to say was, "I don't want to!"
If you were asking me not to be the one to kill you for my sake, then I wanted you to understand how I felt...but what matters about your final wishes is what you want, not me. If you don't want it to be me, then that's that: we don't have to compromise! But, if you change your mind -- and you can change your mind -- you can ask me for it. But only if it becomes what you want.
[He's just....not going to dig into the self sacrifice Ryou remembers but he doesn't right now.
It's not like he can talk, given his own past.]