He watches with a mild sort of interest as the shadow begins to change shape behind Ryo, and thinks that if he were in the audience, he might watch just for curiosity's sake. But an upfront seat is just as fine, he guesses. He raises the blade, one hand butting up against the hilt and the other holding it at an angle, grip steady and unyielding.]
Things often are, aren't they?
[A simple statement, the tone of which implying that there's something private in the words.]
But that's something I have no intention of discovering.
[Because he's sick of playing by rules that others set before him, and he's sick of being here, sick to death of people getting in his way and sicker still of himself.
With a single, lightning-quick motion, he brings the blade toward his own body rather than to Ryo, the flat edge of it turned to his throat with a clear intention to slice through it. There's not an ounce of hesitation in him, and his expression is defiant rather than exhausted. If nothing else, he's refusing to go out on anything but his own terms.]
1/2 and also cw for attempted suicide closes my eyes
He watches with a mild sort of interest as the shadow begins to change shape behind Ryo, and thinks that if he were in the audience, he might watch just for curiosity's sake. But an upfront seat is just as fine, he guesses. He raises the blade, one hand butting up against the hilt and the other holding it at an angle, grip steady and unyielding.]
Things often are, aren't they?
[A simple statement, the tone of which implying that there's something private in the words.]
But that's something I have no intention of discovering.
[Because he's sick of playing by rules that others set before him, and he's sick of being here, sick to death of people getting in his way and sicker still of himself.
With a single, lightning-quick motion, he brings the blade toward his own body rather than to Ryo, the flat edge of it turned to his throat with a clear intention to slice through it. There's not an ounce of hesitation in him, and his expression is defiant rather than exhausted. If nothing else, he's refusing to go out on anything but his own terms.]