[Now here's a dilemma. Link wants Sola to be happy, but he also wants to protect him. And Johnny is admitting, straight out, that he isn't a good person. Link lets out a sigh.]
I want him to be happy. And he's happy with you, but... [There's a helpless expression on his face.] Why aren't you a good person?
Because....I only hurt the people around me, that should be evident enough already.
And...I hurt people just to live. Innocent people suffer just to make sure I don't die. Isn't that bad enough? If not, maybe the added fact that, where I come from, I'm considered the complete opposite of good or light. I'm supposed to be evil.
[He sighs.]
...I don't know how to be in a relationship. I've been around for centuries...and that's one of the things I've never done. I don't know what I'm doing.
[He'd been with people, sure, but the closest thing he'd ever had to a relationship was Chris...and that was not this.]
[Link... isn't really sure how to take that, and his expression twists in indecision.]
[Supposed to be evil. He had said he was supposed to be evil, not that he was - and isn't that something that he has in common with Sola? For a very long minute, he doesn't answer.]
[Link has his own views on what evil is, and he's just not sure where Johnny sits right now.] Do you like hurting people? That's - well, evil people don't care if they hurt or kill anyone...
[He backed himself right into that one. Why was this so confusing? People left and they didn't come back, he wasn't supposed be considering a different scenario.]
What if some pain now saves him from worse pain later?
[Johnny... has a point, and Link lets out a sigh as he realises it.] ...I don't know. I just know that he's really sad right now and I don't know how to make it better.
Knowing Sola, I can either fix it, possibly put him in danger, but have him happy and love me again...Or I can leave it, he'll be unhappy or a while, probably hate me before all is said and done, but he'll be safe.
I don't know. I've never had a matesprit or anything... [Sola's troll vocabulary is rubbing off on him. Link exhales, letting his breath out slowly, and shakes his head.]
Maybe you could ask other people... just make sure he doesn't see it.
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I want him to be happy. And he's happy with you, but... [There's a helpless expression on his face.] Why aren't you a good person?
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Because....I only hurt the people around me, that should be evident enough already.
And...I hurt people just to live. Innocent people suffer just to make sure I don't die. Isn't that bad enough? If not, maybe the added fact that, where I come from, I'm considered the complete opposite of good or light. I'm supposed to be evil.
[He sighs.]
...I don't know how to be in a relationship. I've been around for centuries...and that's one of the things I've never done. I don't know what I'm doing.
[He'd been with people, sure, but the closest thing he'd ever had to a relationship was Chris...and that was not this.]
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[Supposed to be evil. He had said he was supposed to be evil, not that he was - and isn't that something that he has in common with Sola? For a very long minute, he doesn't answer.]
[And then he lets out a sigh.] Are you evil?
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Here...his friends didn't agree. They said he wasn't. But were they right?
He hurt people just to live, and his very existence was hated by God, but he didn't want to hurt anyone.]
I don't know.
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No, I wish I didn't have to.
[He wasn't worth the pain he caused others.]
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[This is the most important question, and it shows on his intense expression.]
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No, never. I would rather die.
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Well - you're hurting him now. And I don't know if it's really a good idea, but you make him happy...
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What if some pain now saves him from worse pain later?
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[He tries to smile but it's extremely strained.]
Knowing Sola, I can either fix it, possibly put him in danger, but have him happy and love me again...Or I can leave it, he'll be unhappy or a while, probably hate me before all is said and done, but he'll be safe.
Is there really a right answer?
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Maybe you could ask other people... just make sure he doesn't see it.
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[Or, you know, maybe he won't and he'll just continue to avoid everything.]
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