all your cunning tricks make me sick --

          …

          “Uhm— It’s.. dangerous to be around someone who brings only destruction in his path.” Where did she even come from? 

❝ And you think that’s you...? ❞

          “I hate when people ask me if I’m a hero. No. Start running.”

❝ Second chances work -- so long as the person in question puts in effort to MAKE it work. ❞

❝ When you get to where I am, ❞ and her words are almost confident to that end, as if she knows for certain. A hand settles on her hip and she glances out the window to the arena. ❝ You see a lot in life, sweetie. The orphanage, the streets, they're the starting bar. But you rise above it all. You become what they never thought you could. ❞

It's hard to say she doesn't see herself in Matilda; she absolutely does. To be born in such dire circumstances, raised in alignment with a man deadset on ripping this world from the ground up, with so much potential that it's hindered for years to come. No, Breezie will see to it her potential won't be missed.

          “I’m a hedgehog, it’s in my nature to.. produce such sounds.” And we don’t talk about the other.. things this alien-hedgehog hybrid is capable of. Nope.

          “And no, that information really doesn’t give me any comfort.” In fact, he’s wondering if he should try to kick the monkey. What kind of robot tries to mediate, anyway?

❝ AND YOU COULDN’T DO IT SOMEPLACE ELSE? Make out where you dweebs want. DO IT IN FRONT OF MY FACE!! I don’t CARE!! But if I have to hear that voice pitch ONE more time, I’m going to SNAP and it won’t be PRETTY and...!! ❞

A pause, and he tents his fingers, taking a deep breath. In, out, in, out. Or counting. It’s the illusion of counting since he can’t, yknow, breathe.

@heartopened​ said:  Squirt, squirt.

“ … ” Sighs and wipes his face with his sleeve.

“ Y’know ?You’re lookin’ a little breakable right now. Hold still for me. ”

@heartopened​: Oh, there’s a monkey here. And he’s squirting Shadow with a spray-bottle.

          Oh, who the hell is this? “Alright, I get it. You’re mad and homophobic.”

❝ I’M TRYING TO MEDIATE AND I CAN’T CHANNEL MY INNER PEACE WHEN YOU TWO ARE HISSING AT THE TOP OF YOUR LUNGS!! ❞

Hands him over a spray bottle.