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[therushingsky]

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Re: Spam

[charlastan]

He was supposed to just let me get to know him while I didn't know anything about him, while I could be mostly unbiased about it. It wasn't perfect - I still knew we'd erased him outta my brain for a reason, even if I didn't know what that reason was - but I was at least giving him a chance to do it with a mostly clean slate. As for what I want...

[He thinks hard about t, because he's not an idiot. Rhys is Bill's friend, so if he can help him out at all, he probably will. He's not going to trust that this will stay between them.]

...Mostly both. Obviously he's gonna still overthink - everyone does that. But I don't want him pulling strings and I don't want him hurting anyone, especially Ford. You know, basic decent person stuff.

[It shouldn't be that hard, come on.]

Re: Spam

[therushingsky]

[Rhys throws up some finger quotes for what he's about to say:]

"I just want to get to know you while casually holding your life and the future of the guy you're obsessed with in my sweaty old man hands."

[He drops the finger quotes, levelling with Stan:]

Dude, you can't have that. You can't ask someone to be themselves, and to show you the best side of themselves, while at the same time holding an axe over their head. Especially not here.

[Rhys is quiet for a minute, at that last comment, then, finally:]

He's not a person, Stan. He's an ancient alien intelligence trying to unlearn millennia of this shit, and cram himself into human standards for good and bad. I don't know what graduation is going to look like for him, and I don't know if-- acting like a basic decent person, for him, isn't just going to be finding which strings to pull to make sense to us.

[He pulls the Margarita towards him, glancing down into it.]

But I know that he'd do anything for Ford, even stuff that he should probably be stepping back and letting Ford do for himself. You seriously do not know how far the guy's come.

Re: Spam

[charlastan]

[Stan glares and crosses his arms.]

If you want me to feel sorry for the guy and give him his life back, you can forget it! It's my call, and until I feel like he's not gonna turn around and use that to literally murder everyone I love he's not getting a free pass from me, and I'm not gonna let you sit there and tell me that's unreasonable!

[Sure, the means aren't the most ethical, but it's the best Stan has for now. He's particularly annoyed because they've actually tried to give Bill the fairest shot possible.]

They're all I've got and they're the only thing I care about. I'm not sacrificing their safety for Bill. It's not happening. Either he convinces me he's changed for the better or he graduates the old fashioned way, end of story.