V isn’t very good at this sort of thing; he never was and likely never will be. Bringing comfort to an ailing heart requires a subtle touch, the ability to empathize so deeply that one can take those feelings and put them on display, turn it around into mutual comfort. It requires a self-applied vulnerability that he can’t bring himself to have, and so he just stands there, fingers curling gently against the handle of his cane.]
I see.
[And yet V is also no longer as cruel as he once was (that other self of his), so much that he would leave it at that. He can still urge him to continue. He isn’t heartless. He is literally all that remains of a heart.]
It won’t abate the ache, but I can offer you this much-- remember when I said that we will find a way home? That it is necessary? I believe that. And you should, too.
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V isn’t very good at this sort of thing; he never was and likely never will be. Bringing comfort to an ailing heart requires a subtle touch, the ability to empathize so deeply that one can take those feelings and put them on display, turn it around into mutual comfort. It requires a self-applied vulnerability that he can’t bring himself to have, and so he just stands there, fingers curling gently against the handle of his cane.]
I see.
[And yet V is also no longer as cruel as he once was (that other self of his), so much that he would leave it at that. He can still urge him to continue. He isn’t heartless. He is literally all that remains of a heart.]
It won’t abate the ache, but I can offer you this much-- remember when I said that we will find a way home? That it is necessary? I believe that. And you should, too.
You will see them again.