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WASHINGTON. ([personal profile] protocol) wrote2021-10-16 12:49 pm
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[personal profile] gascogne 2024-12-28 03:20 pm (UTC)(link)
[He makes a slight 'hm' noise at that explanation, some of it registering in a way he'd not have considered the act. Lavishing attention, which D'Artagnan very much likes to do, never occurred to him as what might be brought through ropes and taking control. That aspect would change it for him, take away from the affection and care in his mind, and he realises then he can't see it as something... positive. Wash's talk of purpose isn't so convoluted that he doesn't understand the basic thread of it, nor why the man might find purpose in such work, but none of it draws D'Artagnan in particular. He lets the silence drift for a moment as he gathers his thoughts, looking over at the bundles of rope again, and when he meets Wash's eyes, his own hold an apologetic gaze.]

You're right, I need to talk to her. I was... looking for a purpose in this myself, something to make me want to do it. But I don't, I still don't.
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[personal profile] gascogne 2024-12-28 04:45 pm (UTC)(link)
I agree.

[It should've been an obvious conclusion, but D'Artagnan doesn't often find those, taking a more convoluted path that to him had seemed the easiest until he'd found himself in the midst of it and without direction. It's not uncommon. Something about this, his admission, feels like defeat all the same. He pushes himself up off the couch, and doesn't regard the ropes again, ignoring the table.]

I've not found this unhelpful, you understand. I do appreciate your insight and allowing me to see what it's brought you personally. There are complications and individual aspects I'd not fully considered or comprehended thoroughly. I'm uncertain how this will... end, for me, but trust I will endeavour to speak with you again should I proceed and wish for... more practical instruction.
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[personal profile] gascogne 2024-12-28 06:14 pm (UTC)(link)
[He's not expecting anything further, and hearkening back to that has him looking at Wash directly again, not capable of the same penetrating gaze, nor would he issue it, but clearly paying attention to the words and giving them weight. His eyebrows knit together slightly, as to D'Artagnan, that was the most obvious conclusion, a hell and far from a party trick. He nods in acknowledgement of that statement. The offer to speak to him is taken an intended, about other things, things that he'd not meant to touch on perhaps, or hadn't meant to have connections with. In that, he can't see this meeting wasn't unhelpful even apart from the crux of it, in a way Wash might have gathered, D'Artagnan suspects, because he'd never been a man who could hide his feelings easily, and never had he felt something without some level of intensity to it.]

Of course. Know I offer that to you as well.

[The man doesn't seem he needs it, but if most people dismiss the harsher realities of his ability or what he's revealed of his past, it can't hurt to state he'd be similarly willing to listen.]