[ GERARD YOUR SWIMABILITY IS SO HIGH!!!! GERARD!!!!!!! ]
...I thought for a long time that all I needed was a life like that. But that's not true. I realized eventually how hard it would be, to be alone. [ ... ] Surviving years of that. You have to have been strong.
[ it'd have been much easier to die, or to become something not human at all. ]
I think it did the opposite, actually. [ he has to think of how to put this. ] After that I was so afraid of going out and doing anything, of standing up and fighting, that I avoided it all until it was way too late to fix it. I survived years by luck. I shouldn't have.
[ he would've died trying to fight even a dog as a little wriggly frog. he thinks gerard deserves a little more credit than he's giving himself, being a child lost at sea, where the sea is a pond. ]
Do you mean when you met Ylfa? [ it doesn't sound like this was their first team. ]
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...I thought for a long time that all I needed was a life like that. But that's not true. I realized eventually how hard it would be, to be alone. [ ... ] Surviving years of that. You have to have been strong.
[ it'd have been much easier to die, or to become something not human at all. ]
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I think it did the opposite, actually. [ he has to think of how to put this. ] After that I was so afraid of going out and doing anything, of standing up and fighting, that I avoided it all until it was way too late to fix it. I survived years by luck. I shouldn't have.
I didn't get strong until I had friends.
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Do you mean when you met Ylfa? [ it doesn't sound like this was their first team. ]