[ The smile falters, worry worming into his features as she explains, unable to even look at him, her voice betraying what her eyes would have. There are a million questions he could ask, but a few conclusions he could draw for himself. One was evident. This person - Saix - had tricked her before. He'd...manipulated her, it sounded like. Her reaction when he'd asked about her training made so much more sense now. He wasn't someone she had wanted to see, but someone who influenced her, nonetheless.
"Once, he told me I was a mistake the Organization never should have made."
And the ghost had done the exact same thing, using that same face, to trick her, again. It's infuriating - it's cruel, and a loud voice in Dipper's head cries out at the injustice of it. There's so much he doesn't know about her, but there's another conclusion he could draw: life had not been fair to her. He draws his hand back from her shoulder, letting it fall to his side.
He's so bad at this. He'd tried so hard to not say the wrong thing, and where had it gotten them? She sounded sadder than he'd ever heard her before. But they're in too far now to just walk away. If he can't try to make this right, if he can't fix it, even just a little...
He has to try. ]
That doesn't make you weak, either. I don't...I don't know what you've been through, but you're not weak because you hated that he was disappointed in you. No one wants to be a disappointment. It's just - part of being human, I guess. You didn't want to let him down, even if he was a total jerk. No one could blame you for that. I would've done the exact same thing.
Everyone has regrets and things they wish they could do differently. Whatever you did in the past, whoever you were? It doesn't matter. It matters who you are now.
i'm sorry
"Once, he told me I was a mistake the Organization never should have made."
And the ghost had done the exact same thing, using that same face, to trick her, again. It's infuriating - it's cruel, and a loud voice in Dipper's head cries out at the injustice of it. There's so much he doesn't know about her, but there's another conclusion he could draw: life had not been fair to her. He draws his hand back from her shoulder, letting it fall to his side.
He's so bad at this. He'd tried so hard to not say the wrong thing, and where had it gotten them? She sounded sadder than he'd ever heard her before. But they're in too far now to just walk away. If he can't try to make this right, if he can't fix it, even just a little...
He has to try. ]
That doesn't make you weak, either. I don't...I don't know what you've been through, but you're not weak because you hated that he was disappointed in you. No one wants to be a disappointment. It's just - part of being human, I guess. You didn't want to let him down, even if he was a total jerk. No one could blame you for that. I would've done the exact same thing.
Everyone has regrets and things they wish they could do differently. Whatever you did in the past, whoever you were? It doesn't matter. It matters who you are now.