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Glad to read it. Hey, at least you can say you're not the one being foolish this time, huh?
[Okay, he'll tease- but only in the opposite direction.]
The easiest way to find understanding in other people is to see the ways we're similar, rather than the ways we're different. That and to forgive them their fear. We should walk the paths and fight the battles that we think are right, but fear and anger should never be vehicles for those battles. That's what I think.
What do you think, D33?
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[Collecting information and identifying patterns - similarities. That he can do. Understand and forgive them their fear - he's familiar enough with it to at least consider the emotions of others, even if he might not be able to force himself to care. Not allowing his fear and anger, the only two emotions that he has any familiarity with, control his actions - now, that one will be a bit more of a challenge.
[What he can recognize, though, is that neither of them have ever served him well as far as determining his actions. They were always weaknesses in their own rights. Three out of four of the concepts Duo is offering isn't so bad, right? Even so, if he knows not what he considers to be right, then he knows not what he's battling for in the first place.]
As I am sure you have observed, Shinigami, my sense of morality does not typically much up with that of the other ImPorts. [Of other human beings in general, in fact.] Though my interest remains largely in my own survival, I believe I can recognize that, in this world, I will not be able to attain such a goal alone.
[Is...that the right answer? That's what he thinks. That's the conclusion he's come to. At least...he's pretty sure it is.]
I recognize as well that I cannot expect to obtain the help of others should I not have something to offer them myself.
I suppose, in that case, that I might focus on building further connections with those that I am forced to commiserate with in this world.
[Rome wasn't built in a day, okay? He's trying.]
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Well, you're getting there. Continue what you're doing. As long as you follow the impulses that lead you to protect and aid others you care for, you can't really go wrong.
[Well. That was a bit of an oversimplification, too... But there was always another time. He had enough to chew on already.]
[Speaking of...] Didn't get hit too bad by all that vandalism, huh? Just the coffee shop?
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My home was unaffected.
I would rather not speak about the Café at this current moment.
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[Not surprising considering who-- what the proprietor was, but.]
Need help over there?
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We will be opening again soon, I suspect.
[And you didn't even have to lead him to helping out that time, did you, Duo?]
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Sounds good! I'll plan to be by.
(By 'take care of' you don't mean, you know, the guys that did it?)
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The perpetrators were not harmed.
[Partially because D33 doesn't know who they are and wasn't there when the vandalism occurred. Of course, now that they've been over the whole not letting fear and anger guide your actions thing, he probably (probably) won't be looking into "taking care of them" in the way that Duo is implying after all.
[Kaneki wouldn't want him to anyway.]
We simply put the Café back in order.
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[Phew. Thank God he got to him before that; Duo figures Kaneki didn't seem the type to want revenge anyway. But then, who was ballsy enough to hit the cannibal?]
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You must think you're quite funny, don't you?
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Goodbye, Father Maxwell.
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