[ just saying. but the words aren't accusatory, just tired. bemoaning the facts won't change them and they both have more important things to do here. ]
Maybe you gave your word, but I don't trust any of the people here and you're not exactly in shape to be fighting giant monsters if they show up.
[ NO OFFENSE but also maybe a little offense. they both know soo-won is not in peak physical condition. does it have to be hak that keeps an eye out on soo-won? no, but at the same time, yeah kinda sorta. ]
Besides. [ softer. slower. ] It's what the princess would have done.
[ it is late, but to soo-won, that choice was unavoidable. hak thinks that there were other ways for it to happen, but soo-won ruminated for ten years and kept arriving to the same conclusion. he can't feel regret, even if he does feel guilt.
but soo-won is quiet anyway, listening. he doesn't think that hak needs to be the one to look after him. even if he's not in peak fighting condition, he's also not useless. if he wanted a bodyguard, he thinks he could find one through nothing but his own ability to talk his way into what he wants.
. . .
if it's for yona though, it all makes more sense. ]
... If that's what you choose, I can't stop you.
[ and he likes talking to hak. he always has. soo-won isn't the one hurting when they're with each other—and even in those moments where the guilt crushes his heart so intensely that he wonders if it's another bout of the crimson illness, he'd still choose to be with hak than without him. that's his own selfishness he'll never admit. ]
imagine tagging anything back at a reasonable pace
[ soo-won always makes it sound so simple. as if he has all the freedom in the world (he does) to do as he wants without a care in the world, and as if soo-won has never once done anything to dramatically alter that carefree path in life.
unfortunately i have to save my energy for all our other threads, so instead of replying back with something ill-thought-out and rude he instead says: ]
Are we done here?
[ he makes it sound like they're done regardless... ]
[ look... he's aware he did that and that's why he thinks it's so strange that hak keeps interacting with him. he has the freedom to leave! dip! ditch his ass!
well that's what's happening now, and soo-won can at least fend for himself fairly easily so: ]
It would seem so. Goodbye, Hak.
[ and he'll close the line to spare hak the trouble of it ]
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it's fine, i've learned to prepare myself for the worst whenever i tag you
[ just saying. but the words aren't accusatory, just tired. bemoaning the facts won't change them and they both have more important things to do here. ]
Maybe you gave your word, but I don't trust any of the people here and you're not exactly in shape to be fighting giant monsters if they show up.
[ NO OFFENSE but also maybe a little offense. they both know soo-won is not in peak physical condition. does it have to be hak that keeps an eye out on soo-won? no, but at the same time, yeah kinda sorta. ]
Besides. [ softer. slower. ] It's what the princess would have done.
[ reach out her hand, despite everything. ]
imagine a relationship so f r a u g h t
but soo-won is quiet anyway, listening. he doesn't think that hak needs to be the one to look after him. even if he's not in peak fighting condition, he's also not useless. if he wanted a bodyguard, he thinks he could find one through nothing but his own ability to talk his way into what he wants.
. . .
if it's for yona though, it all makes more sense. ]
... If that's what you choose, I can't stop you.
[ and he likes talking to hak. he always has. soo-won isn't the one hurting when they're with each other—and even in those moments where the guilt crushes his heart so intensely that he wonders if it's another bout of the crimson illness, he'd still choose to be with hak than without him. that's his own selfishness he'll never admit. ]
imagine tagging anything back at a reasonable pace
unfortunately i have to save my energy for all our other threads, so instead of replying back with something ill-thought-out and rude he instead says: ]
Are we done here?
[ he makes it sound like they're done regardless... ]
stop this is a reasonable pace
well that's what's happening now, and soo-won can at least fend for himself fairly easily so: ]
It would seem so. Goodbye, Hak.
[ and he'll close the line to spare hak the trouble of it ]