[ it is certainly strange to be in the position of helping someone as opposed to .... arranging their kidnapping, or threatening to execute them over public comms. angelo finds he's ill-equipped to console anyone, considering his actual role back home.
good thing he hasn't do much of that, if only because there's no time - the boy can stand up, though he can't compel himself to escape. angelo takes this as permission to open up his cage, and then he sees what's been done to him: the surgical scars, the fear that pins him in his cage. he thinks of his captain with dread: did they do this to him? when they created him to become their leader, did he experience fear too?
he can't communicate to this child however that his empathy is contingent on someone who mattered to him that was never meant to be human. but it's his way of understanding what is going on with him, because he is in earth and the affairs of earthnoids were never his purview until he was dragged here, as if gravity imposed its weight on his soul until he was plunged into this bunker.
he crouches before him after opening his cage, making himself smaller, and extends his hand. ]
I don't find you frightening or pitiful.
[ well, that's a start. look, he's not the best at this. ] And it's understandable to be afraid.
But there is a town outside of this to return to, and people are probably looking for you. You have to take the first step. You are responsible for their affections; do not falter now.
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good thing he hasn't do much of that, if only because there's no time - the boy can stand up, though he can't compel himself to escape. angelo takes this as permission to open up his cage, and then he sees what's been done to him: the surgical scars, the fear that pins him in his cage. he thinks of his captain with dread: did they do this to him? when they created him to become their leader, did he experience fear too?
he can't communicate to this child however that his empathy is contingent on someone who mattered to him that was never meant to be human. but it's his way of understanding what is going on with him, because he is in earth and the affairs of earthnoids were never his purview until he was dragged here, as if gravity imposed its weight on his soul until he was plunged into this bunker.
he crouches before him after opening his cage, making himself smaller, and extends his hand. ]
I don't find you frightening or pitiful.
[ well, that's a start. look, he's not the best at this. ] And it's understandable to be afraid.
But there is a town outside of this to return to, and people are probably looking for you. You have to take the first step. You are responsible for their affections; do not falter now.