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riverview2018-11-10 01:10 am
shoplifter) wrote in riverview2018-11-10 01:10 am
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Last Video. UN: ilikehorses
... I am back in town.
[It had been longer than she planned, really. She had a lot of things to think about — after all the harm she'd done, even if it wasn't her will to do it... It left a lot of room for uncertainty. Fear and panic for those she cared about. Part of her wondered if it would just be better, to stay out there like some little hermit child. It left room to think, though, about her time here. She's so much different, isn't she? Not in blinding ways. But she would like to hope that she's... improved. Became something bigger and better than the girl in the small cell, back in Mexico City.]
I'm back in school, too. People like Strange would be upset if I played 'hooky' anymore, even with them gone. I will — keep trying. To live like a person, to be someone. I think it is important to the people before me. It does not change what has happened... any of it. But it is making something for later, I think. That is what I've settled for, in my head.
To be better. And to not be what I was made for; I want to... think about things I can be... when I am older.
[She fidgets with the old, raggedy strap of her backpack, considerate. There's no limit of hesitancy to her voice, but even so—]
Is there something... You think changed for you? As a person?
After staying here.
Is there something you would still like to change?
... Maybe we can work on things together.
[She hopes, in the end, that it'll be enough to make her father proud of her.]
[It had been longer than she planned, really. She had a lot of things to think about — after all the harm she'd done, even if it wasn't her will to do it... It left a lot of room for uncertainty. Fear and panic for those she cared about. Part of her wondered if it would just be better, to stay out there like some little hermit child. It left room to think, though, about her time here. She's so much different, isn't she? Not in blinding ways. But she would like to hope that she's... improved. Became something bigger and better than the girl in the small cell, back in Mexico City.]
I'm back in school, too. People like Strange would be upset if I played 'hooky' anymore, even with them gone. I will — keep trying. To live like a person, to be someone. I think it is important to the people before me. It does not change what has happened... any of it. But it is making something for later, I think. That is what I've settled for, in my head.
To be better. And to not be what I was made for; I want to... think about things I can be... when I am older.
[She fidgets with the old, raggedy strap of her backpack, considerate. There's no limit of hesitancy to her voice, but even so—]
Is there something... You think changed for you? As a person?
After staying here.
Is there something you would still like to change?
... Maybe we can work on things together.
[She hopes, in the end, that it'll be enough to make her father proud of her.]
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It is nice, isn't it? To have connections...
I had some, before, but we were not... allowed to be ourselves. We do not know each other as well as we should, for how long we lived with each other.
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It is. [Sometimes, he wondered if he'd still be that loner kid in the desert if it hadn't been for Voltron helping him connect with others back home, or coming to Riverview and finding a way to connect with people without Voltron's help.]
You have the chance to change that here. It's good you want to. [Not even gonna lie... but Keith did worry about Laura. After all, his first meeting with her had been him trying to help get her out of being in trouble for shoplifting. There were obviously a ton of other issues she had that he didn't, but the troubled kid stealing thing? He'd known that spot all too well and extremely personally, and it had spurred him to keep an eye on her. She deserved to get the chance he'd been given to get away from that.]
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Because it means I am not just a thing.
[That was the important part, wasn't it?
To not be a weapon, to not be used.]
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That's right. You're a person... with a heart, and feelings.
It's not where we come from that matters. It's who we are that counts.
[This from someone who, for a while, thought his whole team hated him for being half-Galra... the alien empire they were fighting against, and who struggled for quite some time figuring out his own identity as a result of finding that out.]
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[It's important to say that, too. She doesn't know much about Keith, but — would it not make sense, to confirm someone else's potential? To make sure they aren't full of doubt, themselves?]
Thank you, Keith.
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Any time.
I'll see you around, okay?
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They'll be okay.]
See you around.