[If Ryou's expecting to see judgment, or disgust, he's very wrong.
What he sees instead is pity, and the kind of horror that comes from sadness for a friend.
What would have happened if Atem had been unlucky enough to be present for this Vice Circus event? What would have been unlocked in him? What principles of his own would he have betrayed? What would he have had to forgive himself for?
It's a mercy he wasn't.
No, there's no blame. Ryou was put into a situation he couldn't control, that he didn't want; the fact that it happened the way it did was not his fault.]
Of course. The Fog.
...
I assume the hunger compulsion ran its course? Or did something break you out of it?
[It's almost a shame Ryou doesn't go on. Atem would understand that. He understands what it's like to feel at your most fulfilled, your most alive, when you give in to your monstrous requirements and feed on whatever it is you need to take to live.]
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What he sees instead is pity, and the kind of horror that comes from sadness for a friend.
What would have happened if Atem had been unlucky enough to be present for this Vice Circus event? What would have been unlocked in him? What principles of his own would he have betrayed? What would he have had to forgive himself for?
It's a mercy he wasn't.
No, there's no blame. Ryou was put into a situation he couldn't control, that he didn't want; the fact that it happened the way it did was not his fault.]
Of course. The Fog.
...
I assume the hunger compulsion ran its course? Or did something break you out of it?
[It's almost a shame Ryou doesn't go on. Atem would understand that. He understands what it's like to feel at your most fulfilled, your most alive, when you give in to your monstrous requirements and feed on whatever it is you need to take to live.]