[Hm -- is he in trouble...? Ryou gets closer, and Atem does sweat -- but not for himself.
He didn't want to have to use his tier 3 power, but he will, if he has to. That's fine.
What isn't fine is if Ryou harms Tybolt. Nobody wants that. If Ryou had approached with his mouth higher...then, Atem would have bolted. As it is, if it's just a leg, he stands his ground -- if uncomfortably.
(Tybolt looks unsure, too. His ears are down and back, he's got enough sense to know that he's looking at a dangerous animal, one much bigger than he is -- but why does it smell like a familiar monster? Why does it smell like it isn't dangerous, when it's moving and sounding like it is?)
He's accused of selfishness, of cheating, of throwing a bratty tantrum because the game hasn't gone his way, and he's about to open his mouth, to reply --
....and then, Ryou bites himself.
It figures, Atem thinks. Ryou's resisting, or he's got a half-dose, or something -- and what he chooses to do is to bite himself.
He can't care about it. Ryou will experience much, much worse, by the time the Fog is over. Better get practice numbing himself to it now.]
As if you could come with us.
As if you'll make it out of this city, away from the populated areas, where you'll kill who knows how many humans, and probably be maimed back. As though it would ever occur to you to look for safety, to protect yourself, if not for your sake but for the people who cared about you -- as if it's not selfish to be so careless!
[He stares down, imperiously, at the snapping, ichor-bleeding wolf.]
But, that's not fair. It's not your fault! We always get separated, and you always kill someone, or get hurt yourself, or both. This isn't any different! You're right, I'm being selfish...
[And, here, he grins a face-splitting grin.]
Finally.
[Like he should have done from the start. Far fewer people would have gotten hurt, if he'd been this way from the beginning. No broadcast, no friends on AM's radar -- no attack on Morgenstern, no lost memory until Felfri, no Draugr maze, no Kulen infestation and imprisonment, no dehydration death for Ryou to come back from...
...no torture by Daniel.
It would have been different from the start, wouldn't it...?]
It's about time! You get a lot less people hurt when you're selfish. You should really try it, Ryou Bakura.
WE PRETEND WE SEE A WOLF
He didn't want to have to use his tier 3 power, but he will, if he has to. That's fine.
What isn't fine is if Ryou harms Tybolt. Nobody wants that. If Ryou had approached with his mouth higher...then, Atem would have bolted. As it is, if it's just a leg, he stands his ground -- if uncomfortably.
(Tybolt looks unsure, too. His ears are down and back, he's got enough sense to know that he's looking at a dangerous animal, one much bigger than he is -- but why does it smell like a familiar monster? Why does it smell like it isn't dangerous, when it's moving and sounding like it is?)
He's accused of selfishness, of cheating, of throwing a bratty tantrum because the game hasn't gone his way, and he's about to open his mouth, to reply --
....and then, Ryou bites himself.
It figures, Atem thinks. Ryou's resisting, or he's got a half-dose, or something -- and what he chooses to do is to bite himself.
He can't care about it. Ryou will experience much, much worse, by the time the Fog is over. Better get practice numbing himself to it now.]
As if you could come with us.
As if you'll make it out of this city, away from the populated areas, where you'll kill who knows how many humans, and probably be maimed back. As though it would ever occur to you to look for safety, to protect yourself, if not for your sake but for the people who cared about you -- as if it's not selfish to be so careless!
[He stares down, imperiously, at the snapping, ichor-bleeding wolf.]
But, that's not fair. It's not your fault! We always get separated, and you always kill someone, or get hurt yourself, or both. This isn't any different! You're right, I'm being selfish...
[And, here, he grins a face-splitting grin.]
Finally.
[Like he should have done from the start. Far fewer people would have gotten hurt, if he'd been this way from the beginning. No broadcast, no friends on AM's radar -- no attack on Morgenstern, no lost memory until Felfri, no Draugr maze, no Kulen infestation and imprisonment, no dehydration death for Ryou to come back from...
...no torture by Daniel.
It would have been different from the start, wouldn't it...?]
It's about time! You get a lot less people hurt when you're selfish. You should really try it, Ryou Bakura.