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Do you think people are too sensitive? Or that Superman isn't so super? Think cats aren't cute? The Beatles are overrated? Love pineapple on pizza? Maybe you just don't like chips rly. Even the best of us have some controversial opinions. Let people know what a monster you are.

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with your characters’ unpopular and/or controversial opinion. Or share few of them at once. In person or via text. Prepare for disagreement.

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to tell them why they're wrong, validate a kindred spirit, or just troll them for caring about such a silly-ass thing in the first place.

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Yeah.

[ It's said low and quiet with a heavy feel to it. It couldn't be helped, and though they were similar and saw it in a similar light, it was still different in some ways. ]

You can't avoid the sacrifices no matter how much you try to protect people. Sometimes protecting people is the sacrifice.

[ There's a weight she recognizes, both in familiarity to him and within her own voice. It's not exactly a subject she was planning on broaching with him, but now is as good a time as any other. ]

Sometimes, but that would suggest there are people worth running yourself ragged for -- unless anyone will do so long as the job is done and done well.

[ She doesn't mean to sound confrontational, but there's an argumentative edge to her voice that's hard to deny. ]

[ The weight holds him in place for now. There's a distance that's yet to be crossed having words cross in place of physically. This kind of thing is never planned, yet, it seems inevitable to bring up -- with them and despite living it. Words were needed at some point. ]

It's both -- For me. [ It's almost too quick he adds that last part like it wasn't a given or something she'd already know, but... ] There are some more than others even if they all are supposed to hold equal weight.

[ He pauses taking serious consideration and giving an honest, yet surface response. ]

It's what we're supposed to do, [ and with the slightest hesitation: ] right?

[ His eyes almost with a gleam of hope speckled in with trying to reach her own simultaneously. Chris almost reaches a hand for her, to gently brush his fingertips over her shoulder tentatively before settling with a light squeeze.

A moment later he adds: ]

Sometimes it doesn't always work the way we plan things.

[ His words hold more weight, but he doesn't plan on going anywhere. He'll stay where he is and with her, reassuring and however she needs -- however she'll take him in this moment that feels like the seams will tear open at any second. ]

[ The weight is on her chest, tight around her neck; like a familiar, gloved hand squeezing just enough to remind her of where control lies. She is in control now, though. It doesn't have to be withholding. There aren't barriers between them, time or distance or even death. There's nothing stopping her right now other than herself. ]

I haven't given it a lot of consideration, if I'm to be honest with you. I try to address things as they come.

[ Which isn't to say that she doesn't have some semblance of a plan -- or multiple ones -- in regard to specific situations. Situations involving him in particular are the ones she has an idea of the direction she'll go. ]

What we're supposed to do and what I end up doing aren't always one and the same, even when given the opportunity for choice.

[ She'd push him to make the decision she wouldn't. She'd choose him over the world then go on and make him choose the world over her. She had the ability to do that, at least. ]

No. [ Less decisive, more quiet. Like someone has said more than he has and she's done more than just revealed her hand to him. ] It would be nice if things did go the way we planned them, though. Maybe just once.

[ She tautly smiles at him, as soft as her gaze might be. It's held up threadbare, ready to snap. It still feels like there's time they're owed that they can never get back. ]

...for what it's worth, I'm sorry for taking some of those decisions out of your hands and not allowing you to have options.

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