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[personal profile] shirtbag 2025-06-11 05:18 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I was so forkin' angry my circuits were fried, but that don't mean I was...

[ it just feels so incredibly insulting, calling him scared. it makes him want to rip his hair out. but also, some part of him knows it's true, even in a small sense. that thought slips through the anger, carves into it like a sharpened knife through a sheet of paper.

boothill lowers his head. yes, he was scared—of losing himself completely again. of doing something so against his code. of killing a friend with his bare hands. essek died a disgraceful death. ]


No... Fork me. Fork it all. [ he lowers his voice. his shoulders slack. ] Yeah. You know what? I was.