You’re trying to yell his name but it’s just coming out in this kind of tiny wet half-voice, and you can barely see him, you’re crying so hard, but you can still feel him under your hands and that keeps telling you this is still real.
OH NO, DANIEL!!!!
You’ve gotten pretty good at walking for a long time, at ignoring how hungry you are. Turns out it’s harder to ignore when you’ve been shot.
This is a horrifying line for a character who's a child! (I mean it would be disturbing from anyone, but from a little kid!)
You wake up, and you know something’s wrong but you don’t know what it is, and then you remember you killed your brother and start screaming.
OH MY GOD! THIS IS THE MOST DISTRESSING THING!
You try to picture Sean sitting on the side of the bed, waiting for you to wake up. Hey, he says. He’s alive and his eye is fine, and maybe he looks kind of like he’s been crying, because he’s been worried. Because he still cares about you, even though you’re the worst little brother anyone’s ever had.
OH NO! (I keep imagining the ghost of Sean trying to reassure him through this, and being all, "No, you're such a good brother, it was an accident, I love you", but Daniel can't hear ghosts.)
It feels like you’re not learning anything, it feels like you’re never going to be a better person. You’re still stealing, you’re still using your powers, you’re still hurting people. But it’s not like you can do anything else, right?
It’s too late to change, anyway. Everyone’s already dead.
DANIEL! He's he's convinced that it's too late to change because he's that hopelessly bad, and he's NINE!!!
If you find Mom, you’ll probably just end up killing her too.
no subject
OH NO, DANIEL!!!!
You’ve gotten pretty good at walking for a long time, at ignoring how hungry you are. Turns out it’s harder to ignore when you’ve been shot.
This is a horrifying line for a character who's a child! (I mean it would be disturbing from anyone, but from a little kid!)
You wake up, and you know something’s wrong but you don’t know what it is, and then you remember you killed your brother and start screaming.
OH MY GOD! THIS IS THE MOST DISTRESSING THING!
You try to picture Sean sitting on the side of the bed, waiting for you to wake up. Hey, he says. He’s alive and his eye is fine, and maybe he looks kind of like he’s been crying, because he’s been worried. Because he still cares about you, even though you’re the worst little brother anyone’s ever had.
OH NO! (I keep imagining the ghost of Sean trying to reassure him through this, and being all, "No, you're such a good brother, it was an accident, I love you", but Daniel can't hear ghosts.)
It feels like you’re not learning anything, it feels like you’re never going to be a better person. You’re still stealing, you’re still using your powers, you’re still hurting people. But it’s not like you can do anything else, right?
It’s too late to change, anyway. Everyone’s already dead.
DANIEL! He's he's convinced that it's too late to change because he's that hopelessly bad, and he's NINE!!!
If you find Mom, you’ll probably just end up killing her too.
I want to hug him so much!