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𝐜𝐚𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐮𝐥𝐮𝐬. ([personal profile] uncourteous) wrote in [community profile] synflux 2024-11-09 01:30 am (UTC)

[ "this" being the result... has callisto looking at him rather punitively. harsh judgment behind his eyes, before it tapers off to looking like a cross between callisto mustering the will not to laugh and being slightly annoyed. was this meant to act as a cautionary tale for himself? he recalls gebura once having spoken about something similar, about the burn of desiring retribution and how in the end...

which direction was his blade facing? he supposed, the real answer was it didn't matter in light of it all. just like that, he gives a smile. yet there is nothing particularly sincere or kind about it.
] You never know. You may find it difficult to believe, but even I had been a rather naive boy once. [ then again, knowing how silco reacted to his title on their first exchange, maybe it's not too surprising at all. ]

Is it not what the series of choices they make after that dictate whether they become a monster or not. [ then again, wasn't that all of mankind? well, callisto doesn't pretend to understand them when he can barely comprehend his own darker considerations. or perhaps, he understands them and that's what makes it so dangerous. pointing to his sword, he asks: ] Shall we put it into his hands and see what he chooses to do?

[ he frames it like a joke, but... is it one? it could give him an apt excuse to [redacted] though. ]

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