[If he wasn't having a hard time with it, Souji would actually worry about him. To be told he was a game - a sentient game now, apparently - was hard enough. To know that the people who created you were actively trying to kill you because you actually gained sentience? There were few people in the world, any world, who would be able to deal with that in a level-headed manner. It was just too much for a person to take in. It was like him finding those comic books that mirrored his life too closely in the first few pages so he'd burned them without ever reading the rest.
It was too much for a person to carry on their shoulders. Far too much.
Souji reached over and tentatively put a hand on Cliff's.]
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[If he wasn't having a hard time with it, Souji would actually worry about him. To be told he was a game - a sentient game now, apparently - was hard enough. To know that the people who created you were actively trying to kill you because you actually gained sentience? There were few people in the world, any world, who would be able to deal with that in a level-headed manner. It was just too much for a person to take in. It was like him finding those comic books that mirrored his life too closely in the first few pages so he'd burned them without ever reading the rest.
It was too much for a person to carry on their shoulders. Far too much.
Souji reached over and tentatively put a hand on Cliff's.]
It doesn't change how real you are.