[Finn's quiet for a moment, just resting his forehead against Takumi's.]
Okay.
[He's speaking quietly, foreheads still pressed together.]
That- I promise I won't let that happen. No matter what, okay?
[If he's even capable of that. He doesn't have any illusions about his own capabilities compared to Takumi's; if he had a blaster and a lot of luck, maybe, but he's still pretty sure that even success would involve following Takumi again sooner rather than later. Frankly, that scared him a lot less than failing.]
But it's not gonna come to that, okay?
[He has. The barest seed of an idea. It's probably dumb, definitely half-baked, and possibly more suicidal than his promise to stop Takumi's body from committing galactic genocide, but at the moment it's all he has.]
Because I've seen you. I know how strong you are, and it's stronger than this. The man I fell in love with didn't let dying three times stop him, and he wouldn't let this either. That- thing that's pushing you, that did this, it needs you to believe you can't win, but I know you can. Taku, tell me - which of us are you going to prove right?
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[Finn's quiet for a moment, just resting his forehead against Takumi's.]
Okay.
[He's speaking quietly, foreheads still pressed together.]
That- I promise I won't let that happen. No matter what, okay?
[If he's even capable of that. He doesn't have any illusions about his own capabilities compared to Takumi's; if he had a blaster and a lot of luck, maybe, but he's still pretty sure that even success would involve following Takumi again sooner rather than later. Frankly, that scared him a lot less than failing.]
But it's not gonna come to that, okay?
[He has. The barest seed of an idea. It's probably dumb, definitely half-baked, and possibly more suicidal than his promise to stop Takumi's body from committing galactic genocide, but at the moment it's all he has.]
Because I've seen you. I know how strong you are, and it's stronger than this. The man I fell in love with didn't let dying three times stop him, and he wouldn't let this either. That- thing that's pushing you, that did this, it needs you to believe you can't win, but I know you can. Taku, tell me - which of us are you going to prove right?