I'm sure we'll find ourselves at odds with each other soon enough.
[ angelo's expecting it, and he's expecting char to reach his limits first in terms of being social and indulging given he doubts he's ever dealt with someone like himself. the stories about char aznable at this age always mentions him as a singular figure but well-respected among peers.
well, angelo remembers working with those adults who have their own memories of everything after the one year war and all the wars that followed it. he's not exactly impressed with them and they have differences where the cause is concerned.
more than that, he's not exactly pleasant company, either. even when he was with cuaron, or sergi, both of them treated him as a peer but were very much aware of what and who he was to the cause. that didn't really stop outside of the office or while in the company of his friends, angelo couldn't turn off that part of himself if he wanted to. too much of it was, as char had said before, shackled to a man who was barely even himself. the connection with his captain is too much and too overwhelming to be away from it; angelo craves it like a drug. it really is his only terrible vice. the kind of man who would indulge such loyalty, such dedication, is the type who always takes his strength from such a display of devotion. ]
You're wrong, however. I won't despise you. [ angelo looks at him with the quiet observation of a snake in the shadows. ] Not that I'm incapable of it, I've plenty enough emotion for both of us.
But not for you. [ and not for who he will become. the most unfortunate thing between the two of them is that for all that char will do in the future, angelo has already forgiven him despite his flaws and despite the ruin it will bring him. all of it, he understands to be necessary and important. if he only understood this devotion as something close to love, whatever passes for it, maybe angelo will act differently and give him the wider berth an animal would give to its fellow violent kin. but that's not where he is. the minor betrayals that full frontal has suffered, angelo remembers, doesn't forgive, and without his influence char gets the brunt of his attentions. not his captain, but as a man. ]
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[ angelo's expecting it, and he's expecting char to reach his limits first in terms of being social and indulging given he doubts he's ever dealt with someone like himself. the stories about char aznable at this age always mentions him as a singular figure but well-respected among peers.
well, angelo remembers working with those adults who have their own memories of everything after the one year war and all the wars that followed it. he's not exactly impressed with them and they have differences where the cause is concerned.
more than that, he's not exactly pleasant company, either. even when he was with cuaron, or sergi, both of them treated him as a peer but were very much aware of what and who he was to the cause. that didn't really stop outside of the office or while in the company of his friends, angelo couldn't turn off that part of himself if he wanted to. too much of it was, as char had said before, shackled to a man who was barely even himself. the connection with his captain is too much and too overwhelming to be away from it; angelo craves it like a drug. it really is his only terrible vice. the kind of man who would indulge such loyalty, such dedication, is the type who always takes his strength from such a display of devotion. ]
You're wrong, however. I won't despise you. [ angelo looks at him with the quiet observation of a snake in the shadows. ] Not that I'm incapable of it, I've plenty enough emotion for both of us.
But not for you. [ and not for who he will become. the most unfortunate thing between the two of them is that for all that char will do in the future, angelo has already forgiven him despite his flaws and despite the ruin it will bring him. all of it, he understands to be necessary and important. if he only understood this devotion as something close to love, whatever passes for it, maybe angelo will act differently and give him the wider berth an animal would give to its fellow violent kin. but that's not where he is. the minor betrayals that full frontal has suffered, angelo remembers, doesn't forgive, and without his influence char gets the brunt of his attentions. not his captain, but as a man. ]