[His response is almost automatic, half-practiced; apologies from people without blame just make him uncomfortable, especially since no one he does blame have bothered to apologize.]
I mean, it's not like he's... evil, or anything. He just- the way it happened was wrong. It was too fast, too... severe. They wanted us all to decide how we'd lead the rest of our entire lives in a matter of days. And if you didn't sign up, you get tossed in a super-prison for life. I'm sixteen, how the hell am I supposed to know what I want to do for the next thirty years?
[He'd always dreamed of being a super hero, ever since he was a kid. But that didn't mean he was ready to sign himself over to the government in order to stay as one.]
I don't blame you for wanting to meet him. But he's just... he's really good at making people believe what he's doing is right.
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[His response is almost automatic, half-practiced; apologies from people without blame just make him uncomfortable, especially since no one he does blame have bothered to apologize.]
I mean, it's not like he's... evil, or anything. He just- the way it happened was wrong. It was too fast, too... severe. They wanted us all to decide how we'd lead the rest of our entire lives in a matter of days. And if you didn't sign up, you get tossed in a super-prison for life. I'm sixteen, how the hell am I supposed to know what I want to do for the next thirty years?
[He'd always dreamed of being a super hero, ever since he was a kid. But that didn't mean he was ready to sign himself over to the government in order to stay as one.]
I don't blame you for wanting to meet him. But he's just... he's really good at making people believe what he's doing is right.