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ambidexter) wrote2013-09-02 12:28 am
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[ Raleigh says losing because that was the word the UN had used — that, along with costly and unsustainable like they hadn't lost so many pilots and J-crews and J-techs and people just to keep the world safe. Raleigh's latent misanthropy didn't just come to life out of nowhere. ]
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i just wish i could deck a few for the crap i've had to hear over the years.
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[ As opposed to an ending to years of nightmares. Raleigh's not the ambitious kind. ]
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i don't regret what i've fought for.
[ But I'm still angry. ]
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His brother. ]
you got siblings, sir?
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I do.
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marshal hansen knows.
[ This is his definition of dying in vain — of dying for a cause for the sake of a whole people who couldn't give two shits about what they're fighting for, the very same people who said you're not useful anymore when things started to list sideways, like all the men and women who had to die to protect what little ground they've gained were— what, tools?
He cares about humanity. He couldn't care less about humankind if he tried. ]
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he had to watch his brother blow up and turn to stardust. he understands it well; now that sam is here, every day is a reminder of how careless he was.]
Soldiers are meant to protect, no matter what the cost.
[it sounds glib, but the meaning is deeper than that. 75 children down to 32 young adults down to four; every death was a death for humanity against the covenant. you act in the interest to "protect"; if it means you go over it over and over again and you pick at it.
cortana's death is something he still hasn't recovered from.]
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[ Yancy's here, too. He doesn't know how or why, but Raleigh doesn't know what to do with himself because it's a wish granted but was never made - he killed his brother, the kaiju only drove the knife.
Yancy being here, alive and whole, is shaking the foundations of everything he's worked for since Alaska. ]
i didn't mean to unload, sir.
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It's fine.
(later:)
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if you ever need an extra set of hands for anything, sir, please call.
[ It's been forever and a day since Raleigh's been able to trust anyone so easily, and the fledgling hope that he's relearned how to is both refreshing and terrifying.
He can trust Master Chief. It feels like a good thing. ]
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