[ Yu's eyes go wide now, wide and piercing and afraid. If anything he holds Yosuke's hand to him closer, more surely. ]
I'd be nothing without you. Without everyone... without my bonds, I'll go back to being nothing. I'll go back to being alone. My parents don't care, no one in Tokyo ever cared. But you cared... I accepted the position of leader because it meant I could keep you all around me. You all act like I did something noble, but it wasn't. I was just scared.
[ He's smiling by the end of that, but it's shaky and too-wide. There's none of his usual confidence to it. The opposite, in fact; it's a self-mocking smile, but also clearly scared. ]
I hate that you feel like you can't be that way. That being like me is a bad thing to you... but I'm so needy that I'll accept it no matter what, just to keep you with me.
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[ Yu's eyes go wide now, wide and piercing and afraid. If anything he holds Yosuke's hand to him closer, more surely. ]
I'd be nothing without you. Without everyone... without my bonds, I'll go back to being nothing. I'll go back to being alone. My parents don't care, no one in Tokyo ever cared. But you cared... I accepted the position of leader because it meant I could keep you all around me. You all act like I did something noble, but it wasn't. I was just scared.
[ He's smiling by the end of that, but it's shaky and too-wide. There's none of his usual confidence to it. The opposite, in fact; it's a self-mocking smile, but also clearly scared. ]
I hate that you feel like you can't be that way. That being like me is a bad thing to you... but I'm so needy that I'll accept it no matter what, just to keep you with me.