[no resistance comes at getting pushed off but, unlike yuri, there's no sitting up that follows. instead, flynn lays out on his back and breaths heavily. a lot of the actual rage has by now dissolved into a more manageable anger. his fists clench at the last line. how... how can yuri possibly have arrived at the conclusion that this is the right thing to do?]
No. You don't have the right to make that choice for me.
[he will not let yuri make that call. never. not only is justice not something to just deal around at a whim like that, but flynn never asked for this. he never would.]
And the Empire's screw ups are my screw ups, more so now than ever. I am the face of the knights. Every mistake they make is a mistake I make. Maybe neither Cumore nor Ragou would have listened, but you had no right to determine their fate because of it. I said I'd stop you if I had to and I will.
[back then, back at mantiac, flynn was ready to draw his sword in order to stop yuri. it was the most painful moment and, had sodia not interrupted, who knows how that could have ended. were yuri to murder again then flynn would no choice but to, once again, turn a sword against him. he would. that's a part of his duty that will get followed no matter how painful it is, no matter how much he doesn't want to. what, then, remains the only option in order to not have to it?
easy: be the one to sacrifice everything. yuri won't have a chance to murder if flynn does everything perfect. hard work and slaving away to an extreme can lead to that. what is right and what is wrong remains so blurred at the present. the situation with ceres has definitely made it worse. no easier way to sidestep that exists than to make certain things lean toward being right himself. yuri made the judgment call that flynn needed to be helped in that way; now flynn plans on making the judgment to help yuri in this way.]
As long as you keep believing you're destined to be some damned lone wolf vigilante then I will do whatever it takes to prevent it. If it results in working myself to the bone or going off the edge over a couple drinks then so be it.
[if it means not being human then fine. flynn can bear that burden. it'll be a heavy one, one that he hates, but he can manage it. yuri's already carried so much, far too much, for him that returning the favor needs to happen. he swallows hard, his voice sounding far more pained, but no less anger upon speaking once more.]
I am not going to let you kill yourself, Yuri, and not because of my own weakness.
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No. You don't have the right to make that choice for me.
[he will not let yuri make that call. never. not only is justice not something to just deal around at a whim like that, but flynn never asked for this. he never would.]
And the Empire's screw ups are my screw ups, more so now than ever. I am the face of the knights. Every mistake they make is a mistake I make. Maybe neither Cumore nor Ragou would have listened, but you had no right to determine their fate because of it. I said I'd stop you if I had to and I will.
[back then, back at mantiac, flynn was ready to draw his sword in order to stop yuri. it was the most painful moment and, had sodia not interrupted, who knows how that could have ended. were yuri to murder again then flynn would no choice but to, once again, turn a sword against him. he would. that's a part of his duty that will get followed no matter how painful it is, no matter how much he doesn't want to. what, then, remains the only option in order to not have to it?
easy: be the one to sacrifice everything. yuri won't have a chance to murder if flynn does everything perfect. hard work and slaving away to an extreme can lead to that. what is right and what is wrong remains so blurred at the present. the situation with ceres has definitely made it worse. no easier way to sidestep that exists than to make certain things lean toward being right himself. yuri made the judgment call that flynn needed to be helped in that way; now flynn plans on making the judgment to help yuri in this way.]
As long as you keep believing you're destined to be some damned lone wolf vigilante then I will do whatever it takes to prevent it. If it results in working myself to the bone or going off the edge over a couple drinks then so be it.
[if it means not being human then fine. flynn can bear that burden. it'll be a heavy one, one that he hates, but he can manage it. yuri's already carried so much, far too much, for him that returning the favor needs to happen. he swallows hard, his voice sounding far more pained, but no less anger upon speaking once more.]
I am not going to let you kill yourself, Yuri, and not because of my own weakness.