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-- Masochism?!?

[HELLO???]

[ are any of his bruises on display? because he's looking at them. ]

[THERE'S THE ONE ON HIS FACE YEAH

he immediately holds a hand over it,]

That wasn't my fault.

And what was it you said to Rosé?

“I like it when you’re mean to me?”

[ baby masochist…. ]

Seriously though, what happened with you and tall, dark and angry? You just beat each other up in the bathroom until you passed out?

That was just for Rosé! I was trying to appeal to the demon in 'em.

[okay lavi, he immediately makes another face]

Pretty much. He was angry about what happened at that new bar. Y'know, with those drinks.

Sure.

[ sure. ]

… Ohhh, did you drink the love potions.

[FROWNING]

It's not like we planned it. Same place, wrong time.

You and a lot of people, Lavi. He seriously got violent about that?

Didn't really have the time to ask between all the punching.

...I don't think he likes being vulnerable, especially with a stranger like me.

[ ……. ]

I don’t exactly like being dead and I’m not pitching a violent tantrum about it.

[.....snerk]

True.

You've got a different set of priorities, right? Plus, you seem like the type who can roll with the punches.

Maybe.

Or maybe I’ve got too much back home to risk and taking the wild choice to murder someone for a potential shot at something I could just walk into anyway isn’t a safe enough choice. Who knows?

[...]

What if it's not so much as a choice then it is a set-up? Bucky and Four still chose to kill, but can we really say that the circumstances didn't lead up to that?

Whether it's a choice or a set-up, like you said: they chose to kill.

Unless we find they were manipulated by demonic urges or something, they still made a choice.

[at that, Lavi looks away for a moment, faraway -- then,]

...Yeah, I know.

But I still think the circumstances are important, with or without the urges.

The motive’s always important. Even if it’s not the obvious one.

[ … ]

I’m just saying, it’s not bad to think about it from all angles. But until we find some proof either way, there’s not a lot we can do other than assume the obvious.

[he nods slowly]

...That your advice as an investigator?

… Sure, let’s go with that. Something about jumping to conclusions.

[ he tends to jump to conclusions like a nerd. ]

[DATE....]

I'm not good with that deductive kind of stuff... I've just been trained to watch how things unfold, without thinking about it much.

There’s a place for observers too. But you don’t get bummed out by inaction?

Nah, I'm trained not to feel anything.

[that doesn't mean he still doesn't get bummed,]

World's in front of me, but I gotta keep it separate.

...

That doesn't sound easy.

I tried my best. But even with thirteen years of practice, I still mess up.

... I think you'd have to physically remove your own humanity to stop having feeling about all the shit happening around you.

[...]

That's the idea. Gramps could do it easy as breathing. Then again, he is pretty old.

[older and wiser (?)]

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