precedented: (Awe-inspiring universe of magic)

[personal profile] precedented 2016-06-28 06:10 am (UTC)(link)
[ Leto is familiar with that, to some degree. He is old in nature and his memories reach back to the golden age of humanity, when pyramids were new. ]

Yes. But do you know what that is or are you simply mimicking what you see?
paraclete: (it was one dull morning)

[personal profile] paraclete 2016-06-28 06:12 am (UTC)(link)
[This is rapidly becoming an extremely uncomfortable conversation for Kaworu — he doesn't really get the irony, the frequent taste of hypocrisy, since it's not uncommon for him to cause these feelings in other people. Not quite as easy to be confronted with them himself, huh.]

I like to think I am capable of learning.
precedented: (Who knows the art of ruling)

[personal profile] precedented 2016-06-28 06:15 am (UTC)(link)
We all have that capability. Even you. But you want to be swept away by the change. You do not wish to be instrumental in changing yourself.

[ His words carry his characteristic bluntness, but there's no anger or scorn in them. Just a simple firmness to it, like bedrock. ]

Someone isn't going to come and change you, Kaworu.