we WILL figure it out. you have to pick some things to believe in or you're just going to tie yourself into knots. and i'm choosing to believe you're still the person i've known since july. powers or not.
[It's a much bigger show of good faith than Dodger's used to, and he hopes Viktor can appreciate that. Maybe self-serving, because he mostly doesn't want to believe he's this bad a judge of character, but the logic doesn't matter if the end result is keeping his friendship going.
He is fully ignoring the second part of that, though, because he doesn't want to admit the argument was caused by Dodger screwing Esikko's crush after being told not to.]
jayce does smithing? i'll have to make sure he and henry meet then. and yeah, we're getting along better. he seemed... worried about me, after the last time i talked to you.
[Which Dodger still isn't entirely sure what to do with. At the time, he'd just assumed Jayce was being a guard dog again, but it seems like Jayce genuinely cares about Dodger's well-being. As much as he finds that deeply confusing.]
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you have to pick some things to believe in or you're just going to tie yourself into knots.
and i'm choosing to believe you're still the person i've known since july.
powers or not.
[It's a much bigger show of good faith than Dodger's used to, and he hopes Viktor can appreciate that. Maybe self-serving, because he mostly doesn't want to believe he's this bad a judge of character, but the logic doesn't matter if the end result is keeping his friendship going.
He is fully ignoring the second part of that, though, because he doesn't want to admit the argument was caused by Dodger screwing Esikko's crush after being told not to.]
jayce does smithing?
i'll have to make sure he and henry meet then.
and yeah, we're getting along better.
he seemed... worried about me, after the last time i talked to you.
[Which Dodger still isn't entirely sure what to do with. At the time, he'd just assumed Jayce was being a guard dog again, but it seems like Jayce genuinely cares about Dodger's well-being. As much as he finds that deeply confusing.]