If you reached out to them, what would that look like? [Their experience with that might be different. Most of their Breach selves have been similar to their real self.]
Would you use it? [Two years ago, they would have, both because pretending to be like someone else could have made it easier to kill someone and because being someone else felt easier than being themself.]
My first warden had to take my abilities away because I saw everyone as a potential victim. I had no idea who I was without my murders, so I had to have them taken from me before I tried to be someone else. It took me a while to see myself as something other than a killer.
[They might need to work harder at treating him like someone else.] Before you came here, when was the last time anyone treated you like someone else? [It sounds like everyone in his world treated him like a killer, eventually.]
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If you reached out to them, what would that look like? [Their experience with that might be different. Most of their Breach selves have been similar to their real self.]
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They might think you were more like your Breach self than your real self, if they had never met you before. [They have no idea.]
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Would you use it? [Two years ago, they would have, both because pretending to be like someone else could have made it easier to kill someone and because being someone else felt easier than being themself.]
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[And he would have, before. Anything to give him an advantage.]
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My first warden had to take my abilities away because I saw everyone as a potential victim. I had no idea who I was without my murders, so I had to have them taken from me before I tried to be someone else. It took me a while to see myself as something other than a killer.
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What helps you see yourself as someone else?
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[They might need to work harder at treating him like someone else.] Before you came here, when was the last time anyone treated you like someone else? [It sounds like everyone in his world treated him like a killer, eventually.]
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[And he'd treated her the same, even if he feels like he was faking it.]
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Your file says you loved her, [they say, after a moment.] It might have felt fake, but you treated her like a person you could love.
What does feel real?
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But this place, the people in it, they feel very real, a lot of the time. Most of the time.