[ Cisco manages to keep the thought quiet, because he's pretty sure it's not something Taako wants to hear right now, and maybe not something he really has a right to say, considering he hasn't been where Taako's been and endured what Taako's endured. But to him, it seems like turning selfish, so he could keep going, in order to save the entire universe from destruction - well it ends up being just a roundabout means of being supremely unselfish and self-sacrificing. The kind of awful big-picture stuff that would leave Taako cut off from people, but the universe safer. ]
Okay. I get that.
[ It seems so... small, in response to what Taako had revealed and admitted. But Cisco doesn't have anything to offer but this: an acknowledgement that he doesn't and can't truly understand, and his acceptance. Anything else he might try to say - justifications, comfort, whatever - just sounds like bullshit in his head before he even seriously considers saying it.
There is one more thing, though. Simple, yes. But of course, true. ]
I like you anyway.
[ Not that he thinks Taako had been keeping any of this quiet out of a desire to be thought better than he is, or a desire for approval. Cisco knows it's much more complex than that - and what had Taako just said, after all. His priorities don't revolve around other people approving of him, because he's used to shielding himself from caring about other people at all. But even with all that in mind, it seems important to Cisco, to say it. That he likes Taako even as, yes, maybe a sometimes shitty person. ]
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[ Cisco manages to keep the thought quiet, because he's pretty sure it's not something Taako wants to hear right now, and maybe not something he really has a right to say, considering he hasn't been where Taako's been and endured what Taako's endured. But to him, it seems like turning selfish, so he could keep going, in order to save the entire universe from destruction - well it ends up being just a roundabout means of being supremely unselfish and self-sacrificing. The kind of awful big-picture stuff that would leave Taako cut off from people, but the universe safer. ]
Okay. I get that.
[ It seems so... small, in response to what Taako had revealed and admitted. But Cisco doesn't have anything to offer but this: an acknowledgement that he doesn't and can't truly understand, and his acceptance. Anything else he might try to say - justifications, comfort, whatever - just sounds like bullshit in his head before he even seriously considers saying it.
There is one more thing, though. Simple, yes. But of course, true. ]
I like you anyway.
[ Not that he thinks Taako had been keeping any of this quiet out of a desire to be thought better than he is, or a desire for approval. Cisco knows it's much more complex than that - and what had Taako just said, after all. His priorities don't revolve around other people approving of him, because he's used to shielding himself from caring about other people at all. But even with all that in mind, it seems important to Cisco, to say it. That he likes Taako even as, yes, maybe a sometimes shitty person. ]