[ Parker says almost without missing a beat, which seems to be the way she operates on polar opposition to the more deliberate and awkward silence that can stretch in conversations against someone else. Parker keeps her finger on the page she is on, but now with her eyes on him.
Yes, she doesn't understand blind trust. She can't, not with the way she has lived - in a world of spies and backstabber and power-hungry self-imposed metahumans posing as the greater upholders of justice. She has never been able to afford that luxury and when she did, she suffered the consequences, irreparable damages inside her, broken to pieces to never be put back again. There is nothing she has that can be fixed, not really. The way she is is the way she will be. ]
I'm not going to tell you what to believe. [ She says, before he can give an answer. ] Do whatever you want to, I don't care. But don't try to tell me this, any of this, is a normal thing to do. They put parasites in your head and then tell you to trust them, no questions asked. If you think that's fair, a price on your freedom, thoughts in your head that aren't yours, doors and walls and privacy denied and stripping you of your agency, individuality a thing that shouldn't be upheld-- then you are where you're supposed to be, aren't you?
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[ Parker says almost without missing a beat, which seems to be the way she operates on polar opposition to the more deliberate and awkward silence that can stretch in conversations against someone else. Parker keeps her finger on the page she is on, but now with her eyes on him.
Yes, she doesn't understand blind trust. She can't, not with the way she has lived - in a world of spies and backstabber and power-hungry self-imposed metahumans posing as the greater upholders of justice. She has never been able to afford that luxury and when she did, she suffered the consequences, irreparable damages inside her, broken to pieces to never be put back again. There is nothing she has that can be fixed, not really. The way she is is the way she will be. ]
I'm not going to tell you what to believe. [ She says, before he can give an answer. ] Do whatever you want to, I don't care. But don't try to tell me this, any of this, is a normal thing to do. They put parasites in your head and then tell you to trust them, no questions asked. If you think that's fair, a price on your freedom, thoughts in your head that aren't yours, doors and walls and privacy denied and stripping you of your agency, individuality a thing that shouldn't be upheld-- then you are where you're supposed to be, aren't you?