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[i_am_emmet]

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[i_am_emmet]

You were put into a situation where you had to battle a lot, even if it was yourself. You were having to go into battles with someone on a different level and had to think multiple steps ahead to try and get to some form of winning.

But it is hard to stop thinking like that.

[familyproblem]

[.....oh suddenly he is not a big fan of this analogy. Independently of it being apt or not.]

Leonardo doesn't remind me of Mother. That's - those aren't related.

[i_am_emmet]

He may not, but have you thought, she might have set a stage where you feel safest by thinking ahead and planning things out many stages in advance? What move will this person do next, are they setting up the field for weather effects, what can I do to prevent damage?

cw emotional abuse

[familyproblem]

[Oh no. Oh fuck. Oh no.]

She didn't screw around like that. Doesn't. She thinks it's beneath her.

[Except she did. She had her jokes. And you didn't know when she was joking and when she was serious, because it was whichever one you weren't...ready for...

...He can't even have his own stupid character flaws? This has to be her, too?]

[i_am_emmet]

[Emmet gets up and heads to the kitchen for a moment to get a soda from the fridge to drink.]

[Maybe this is purposeful, to give Gladion a moment to think. Or perhaps he was just thirsty.]

[familyproblem]

[His thoughts swing very quickly from It's just her? to And she wants to just wash her hands of me to Between her and the nymph, how much of anything is even me?

And then he gets quietly to his feet, setting Mr. Cupcake on the ground, and slips quickly into his room before Emmet can return.]

[i_am_emmet]

[Sometimes being made aware of other people and how they influence you, is the first step to figuring out who you are. Or at least Emmet would say so if he were more vocal.]

[But Emmet isn't and figures Gladion was done with the conversation and would approach him again if he ever wanted to continue it.]

[familyproblem]

[He stays in his room for quite a while, and does not move to re-ooen the conversation when he passes by Emmet later that day.

But Emmet will find, at some point, a note slipped under his room's door, reading Thank you. in Gladion's handwriting.]