The correct response is an equally determined, right, affirming. Elliot knows that. He can see what he's supposed to say, sometimes. "I don't think it's that easy," is what he says instead.
He's not a particularly easy child to adopt (and also, Misato, he's the same age as you, as if that matters at all.)
"Not when we're literally, in this together. It's not like I knew the guy, but he's still... it's all still..." briefly he wonders if there is a developed subcultural language of how to talk about this connection they all have, the same way slang sprouted on the internet. Shared spaces shifting the shared lexicon. Elliot is, uselessly, left with: "In my head."
Which circles him back around to, how do you hate someone you share that connection with? How do you live with being hated? But he doesn't feel like he knows her well enough to ask that (maybe reaching, boundless boundariless curiosity always interested in finding answers without having to ask the question — he can't help it, he's new.)
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He's not a particularly easy child to adopt (and also, Misato, he's the same age as you, as if that matters at all.)
"Not when we're literally, in this together. It's not like I knew the guy, but he's still... it's all still..." briefly he wonders if there is a developed subcultural language of how to talk about this connection they all have, the same way slang sprouted on the internet. Shared spaces shifting the shared lexicon. Elliot is, uselessly, left with: "In my head."
Which circles him back around to, how do you hate someone you share that connection with? How do you live with being hated? But he doesn't feel like he knows her well enough to ask that (maybe reaching, boundless boundariless curiosity always interested in finding answers without having to ask the question — he can't help it, he's new.)