If I had to suffer to get us here, then that's fine with me.
( It is, too. Jayce led a privileged life compared to Viktor or anyone else from the Undercity. He did suffer and go through his own struggles, but he learned from first-hand experience how difficult it was to rise from the bottom to the top, sometimes crawling on his hands and knees to do so. Jayce has been humbled, he's left behind his arrogance and self-pity and come out the other end stronger for it. Less sane, more damaged, a little broken, but stronger and focused.
Viktor was always the one who managed to steady him. Jayce with his intense emotions and being, usually the one with all the nerves, who needed a person to tell him to punch it instead of doubt himself on their original great invention. Now he can be that person, sturdy and true, for him.)
No. Leave it.
( It'll heal someday or it never will; probably the latter. He could never reset it the way he needed to. He'll live with a limp for life if he has to. Viktor did. He tilts Viktor's head up toward him and leans in to kiss him very gently. It's insane how many times he wanted to do that over the years, thinking about it when he looked at Viktor. How easy it would have been to lean over when they were working and act on his feelings, and how afraid he was to do it. Now he kisses him to reassure him, one of his hands remaining on his cheek and the other to his hip, solid as he holds him there.)
I love you. We'll figure this out. We have to do some tests, right? Like we would with anything else.
( They never did any tests with human subjects, is the thing, but they will be very careful in what they do next. Jayce feels a moment of guilt over killing Salo before he had any chance to maybe undo what happened to him, but at the time, he thought he was going to kill Viktor so why not anyone who got in his way? He has regrets but they're not going to help them.)
You bring in one and we test out if there is a way to detach from them. You might need to go into that ... astral projection thing you just did? Maybe you'll be able to see more clearly.
no subject
( It is, too. Jayce led a privileged life compared to Viktor or anyone else from the Undercity. He did suffer and go through his own struggles, but he learned from first-hand experience how difficult it was to rise from the bottom to the top, sometimes crawling on his hands and knees to do so. Jayce has been humbled, he's left behind his arrogance and self-pity and come out the other end stronger for it. Less sane, more damaged, a little broken, but stronger and focused.
Viktor was always the one who managed to steady him. Jayce with his intense emotions and being, usually the one with all the nerves, who needed a person to tell him to punch it instead of doubt himself on their original great invention. Now he can be that person, sturdy and true, for him.)
No. Leave it.
( It'll heal someday or it never will; probably the latter. He could never reset it the way he needed to. He'll live with a limp for life if he has to. Viktor did. He tilts Viktor's head up toward him and leans in to kiss him very gently. It's insane how many times he wanted to do that over the years, thinking about it when he looked at Viktor. How easy it would have been to lean over when they were working and act on his feelings, and how afraid he was to do it. Now he kisses him to reassure him, one of his hands remaining on his cheek and the other to his hip, solid as he holds him there.)
I love you. We'll figure this out. We have to do some tests, right? Like we would with anything else.
( They never did any tests with human subjects, is the thing, but they will be very careful in what they do next. Jayce feels a moment of guilt over killing Salo before he had any chance to maybe undo what happened to him, but at the time, he thought he was going to kill Viktor so why not anyone who got in his way? He has regrets but they're not going to help them.)
You bring in one and we test out if there is a way to detach from them. You might need to go into that ... astral projection thing you just did? Maybe you'll be able to see more clearly.