What we are is so different than the people here. People with hearts... so much is different for them.
Dipper is. Dipper's a real person, one who was born, one who had birthdays and a childhood, one who knows what love is, one who knows what a family is, one who has memories that really belong to him, one who ... has a heart that belongs to him. He wasn't created in a lab. He's not a puppet. He's not a monster.
Not like her.
The whole time he talks she does not look up. They've been sitting on the ground this entire time, on this bridge, where ghosts could come across them, where other people could come across them, but she can't bring herself to move. Dipper... he's so kind. And so brave... from the day they met on the network, when he was trying to work through something terrible that had happened, to when they met in person and he pledged so bravely to be her knight... all the time they've spent together until now, and he's done nothing but make her feel ... happy. And in return... in return, all she's done is lie to him. About what she is...
He thinks she's a human like he is. Maybe that, more than anything, is what makes her a monster. That she's been letting him believe something like that... ]
Who I am now...
[ She sounds distant and troubled. When she begins speaking again, she only intermittently meets his gaze. ]
There's so much you don't know... about who I am. About ... what I am. [ Xion squeezes her eyes shut, forcing out the word. ] I'm ... I'm so scared you'd hate me if you knew the truth. That's why ... that's why I haven't told you.
[ Gently, slowly, Xion reaches out to take the hand he had on her shoulder, and surrounds it with both of her own. ]
When you talk to me... I really do feel like someone special, and amazing. No one ever talks to me the way you talk to me. [ For the first time she smiles again, though it's still sad. ] I don't know if I could bear it ... if you ever looked at me the way Saix looked at me. But ... [ More softly, to herself: ] Doesn't someone like you deserve the truth?
YOU ARE NOT
But she's not human.
What we are is so different than the people here. People with hearts... so much is different for them.
Dipper is. Dipper's a real person, one who was born, one who had birthdays and a childhood, one who knows what love is, one who knows what a family is, one who has memories that really belong to him, one who ... has a heart that belongs to him. He wasn't created in a lab. He's not a puppet. He's not a monster.
Not like her.
The whole time he talks she does not look up. They've been sitting on the ground this entire time, on this bridge, where ghosts could come across them, where other people could come across them, but she can't bring herself to move. Dipper... he's so kind. And so brave... from the day they met on the network, when he was trying to work through something terrible that had happened, to when they met in person and he pledged so bravely to be her knight... all the time they've spent together until now, and he's done nothing but make her feel ... happy. And in return... in return, all she's done is lie to him. About what she is...
He thinks she's a human like he is. Maybe that, more than anything, is what makes her a monster. That she's been letting him believe something like that... ]
Who I am now...
[ She sounds distant and troubled. When she begins speaking again, she only intermittently meets his gaze. ]
There's so much you don't know... about who I am. About ... what I am. [ Xion squeezes her eyes shut, forcing out the word. ] I'm ... I'm so scared you'd hate me if you knew the truth. That's why ... that's why I haven't told you.
[ Gently, slowly, Xion reaches out to take the hand he had on her shoulder, and surrounds it with both of her own. ]
When you talk to me... I really do feel like someone special, and amazing. No one ever talks to me the way you talk to me. [ For the first time she smiles again, though it's still sad. ] I don't know if I could bear it ... if you ever looked at me the way Saix looked at me. But ... [ More softly, to herself: ] Doesn't someone like you deserve the truth?