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[kingtyrantranger]

[Oh, hey, seems like someone's finally figured out how to use the camera function on his omnicomm! He's just. Older. A lot older.]

For the record, I blame Gohan and Videl for this. We were just fine until they started jumping and skipping up and down the timeline.

It's pretty obvious what's going on, so let's not have a bunch of people freak out over someone being younger than they should be. Kids, don't do anything stupid. Adults, keep an eye out for the kids. Business as usual. We've been at this for over half a year now, no reason to fuck it up just because the status quo's been shaken a bit.

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[iamresponding]

[Rich works his jaw and lets out a long exhale.]

During the war, I saw my fair share of, y'know, schools and -- I was there there when the nursery creches of Xinti --

[He just stops. It isn't that his train of thought stops before it leaves the station -- it derails and leaves no survivors. ]

[He'd already been protective of kids to start with, when the war started.]

I think stuff like this hits automatic rage buttons for a lot of us. And we all have our different ways of thinking because of all of our respective absolutely terrible experiences. And mine's not...

I wasn't rank and file. Mine is what it is because it was my call. It was always my call. And I felt a lot differently about my men than -- you know.

[...than all these absolute monsters he keeps hearing about.]

Sorry. I respect that you have your reasons to feel the way you do, even if I still disagree. And what's done is done. I'd be pissed if people were digging into my past bullshit too.

I'll stop the soldier trauma train here.

[prettycoolguy]

Good.

[ He appreciates that Rich is trying to do... something. Something that might be more meaningful if he were better at reading people, if he had a better socialized history to draw on. They've both seen the horrors of war. It smooths his feathers a little, but he still wants things to be very clear and very over. ]

If anyone's allowed to be angry about my past, it's me. I'm not. We're done here.

[ The Chief doesn't think of himself as traumatized, he's just... done what he had to. Moved past things that were in the way. Ignored pain of all kinds to keep fighting. And he's far from interested in talking it out here. ]