tapestodiane | 011 [audio]

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I've been thinking about the significance of our first pokémon. I find it hard to believe the species given to us are random.

[A brief pause. He's been bothered by this ever since his arrival, actually.]

The initial reaction on meeting your first is important, whether it was fear, familiarity, anger, amusement, or the more unlikely indifference. Then there is of course the more pressing question: why were we given these particular ones?

I'd appreciate your thoughts.

[He's investigating again. Action for anyone in Azalea - he'll most likely be hanging around the pokémon center, working there and all.]

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Do you have a good relationship with your sister?

I... we had a very good relationship, I think. [he looks sad at the fact that he has to use the past tense.]

_[...oh.]

What happened?

She was killed.

I'm sorry.

_{[He knows the feeling of loss. He also figures there's not much else he can say.]}

It wasn't your fault.

...Thank you.

[sob, he'd be better about it if the person responsible wasn't in Route right now.]

I know. Murder is unforgivable, but I hope you can come to peace with it in time.

_{[For all the formal sounding words, it's pretty heartfelt.
And... Ouch. That must hurt. At least Coop's left all his troubles at home.]}

[Subaru looks a little faraway for a moment.] I'll be able to end it, one day. [He sounds very determined about this, even if he can't do it here in Johto.]

_{[...Coop doesn't like the sound of that.]}

"End it"?

I intend to avenge her death.

_[Sharply:]

How?

I'm going to kill him.

No. Murder is never an acceptable act - especially not in revenge.

_{[There's a hard tone to his words, because he wants to make sure they get through.]}

I know. [Subaru seems extremely focused in a way that he isn't normally, on this subject-- although there's also the distinct impression that there's a lot about the situation he isn't saying.] I need to do it all the same.

For any other reason than avenging your sister?

_{[There's a distinct note of 'you better tell me'. Coop doesn't take lightly on the topic at all.]}

[there's a long pause on Subaru's end where he looks down for a long moment, considering what to say. It's a long and extremely personal story...]

...He's not a good person.

That's not an adequate reason.

_{[Coop will be practically ruthless in this matter. But he's completely non-threatening, all the same - just pressing for the real answer.]}

[how to say all this... there's another lengthy pause.]

He's an assassin. He didn't start or stop with her. [and then his tone changes and isn't nearly as dead, it's something that's hurt and angry and sad all at the same time.] He killed her instead of me.

_{[It's not that Cooper's unaffected - just that he knows what it's like to be in the midst of a murder, and he still has no amibition to kill the person who caused the trauma for him. So no, Subaru - it's still not a good reason.]

[There's a pause as Cooper studies the other, eyes just a bit narrowed.]}

Why would someone want you assassinated?

[Subaru looks visibly distressed for a moment. Giving you the story in bits and pieces probably isn't helping either of them, but he doesn't want to go over it again. Hasn't, since she died and since someone witnessed it first hand inside his soul.]

It's... complicated. I'm... supposed to stop him from what he does. I-- I wasn't a job, he... was going to kill me of his own volition.

Do you have to stop him by murdering him, or is that your own motive?

_{[There's a bit of a guarded tone to his voice. See, the guy's FBI - if he held any kind of authority in this world, he'd have to arrest you. While he hasn't, it's ingrained in him, really ... a lot depends on that answer, but Coop's opinions regarding murder will hardly budge.]}

[when Subaru replies this time, his voice is quiet, and he sounds exhausted more than anything.]

There's no other way to stop him. I have to kill him, to stop him from killing anyone else. The longer it takes me, the more people he hurts.

_{[Coop would be aggressive about that statement, but he realizes that he doesn't know the workings of Subaru's world. He's quiet for just a moment, before asking yet another question-]}

Is there no law enforcement in your world?

...There is. They aren't equipped to deal with-- [he hesitates for a second, but there's really no reason to dance around the word.] --magic.

He would be able to kill all of them before they could touch him.

_{[He takes a moment here, nodding.]}

I think you better tell me the whole story.

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