[ Ranger considers that a little more. Anger was an important tool, and it was what kept one alive. It was what stirred innovation, but it has diminishing benefits. What use was there to answer that couldn't be relieved? He thinks of his own situation, how that frustration has built up. He'd despised every last one of them. Ranger has focused on that so strongly, wanting to see them fall apart. What had happened, then, and how had it fallen apart?
What purpose had it served him, and what change had it made? It seems to him to be the same issue here; a problem with no cause, emotions that led to no change.
Fear was much the same way. It was proof that you were still alive. That's why, rather than being desensitized, he takes comfort in it. If he could see their corpse, that meant that he was still safe. It was like the steady beat of his heart, or the breaths he took, despite needing either. As long as he had those things, it meant that he hadn't expired. He wonders if he should say that, though.
No... He shouldn't say too much, and yet, as always seems to happen with Komaeda, he finds himself speaking freely. ]
Yeppers, you got it in one! When you're in a situation where somebody's gotta die, or gets comforting to see a corpse, you know? You start to think, "ah, this person is dead, so that means I'm still alive! This person died in my place!" ... I mean, if you have someone a gun and told them that they had to kill somebody, or let everyone die, then normally a person would be relieved if the person next to them died.
[ Even if it was somebody he cared for, their death was better then his. ]
Hmm... I guess you could say that's more or less how I feel about it, too. I don't really mind as long as it's nobody I care about, and if it is, that's on me for being a dumbass and letting it happen. It's just one more problem to deal with.
[ Without meaning to, he adds: ]
Dead bodies are just trash. You can dig around and take what you want from them.
[ The reminder that you're alive, anger that spurs action, trauma that causes hallucinations, despair that cripples - anything, because that was the right of those who survived.
For all of his tendency to give literal answers and echo other views, he doesn't quite do so here - they all probably thought the same thing, but that was only natural. Ranger, like all of them, had a long time to think about that question. ]
UGH HE IS THO.... can't believe these two balancing each other out like that
What purpose had it served him, and what change had it made? It seems to him to be the same issue here; a problem with no cause, emotions that led to no change.
Fear was much the same way. It was proof that you were still alive. That's why, rather than being desensitized, he takes comfort in it. If he could see their corpse, that meant that he was still safe. It was like the steady beat of his heart, or the breaths he took, despite needing either. As long as he had those things, it meant that he hadn't expired. He wonders if he should say that, though.
No... He shouldn't say too much, and yet, as always seems to happen with Komaeda, he finds himself speaking freely. ]
Yeppers, you got it in one! When you're in a situation where somebody's gotta die, or gets comforting to see a corpse, you know? You start to think, "ah, this person is dead, so that means I'm still alive! This person died in my place!" ... I mean, if you have someone a gun and told them that they had to kill somebody, or let everyone die, then normally a person would be relieved if the person next to them died.
[ Even if it was somebody he cared for, their death was better then his. ]
Hmm... I guess you could say that's more or less how I feel about it, too. I don't really mind as long as it's nobody I care about, and if it is, that's on me for being a dumbass and letting it happen. It's just one more problem to deal with.
[ Without meaning to, he adds: ]
Dead bodies are just trash. You can dig around and take what you want from them.
[ The reminder that you're alive, anger that spurs action, trauma that causes hallucinations, despair that cripples - anything, because that was the right of those who survived.
For all of his tendency to give literal answers and echo other views, he doesn't quite do so here - they all probably thought the same thing, but that was only natural. Ranger, like all of them, had a long time to think about that question. ]