Chroma: Danny

[9mon]

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[gogoghostpowers]

I don't know! Am I?!

[ he's so jittery in Kumon's arms, he can't tell if this is refraction or just trembling from nerves ]

[9mon]

Hey... Hey. Do me a favor, yeah? Breathe with me?

[In and out, as calming as he can manage. That should at least help with the generalized anxiety a little bit.]

[gogoghostpowers]

[ yeah i'm sorry kumon, ]

How am I supposed to breathe when I'm going to kill my boyfriend?!

[9mon]

You aren't. You won't.

[gogoghostpowers]

You don't know that! I've killed before, what's stopping me from doing it again?!

[9mon]

Because- Because! Nobody's forced to go to sleep anymore, we can stop you. You won't kill again!

[gogoghostpowers]

[ shakes his head ]

No one would get here in time to stop me.

[ buries his face in Kumon's chest and starts absolutely wailing ]

I don't want to kill you!

[9mon]

[He just... Hugs him tight, because sometimes words really fail you.]

[gogoghostpowers]

[ heaving and trembling into Kumon's chest ]

You know...I don't even need refraction to be the worst. I've killed people without it before! Oh god, it's too late to stop me now, isn't it?!

[9mon]

[ Gently patting his back. ]

What? That doesn't sound like you?

[gogoghostpowers]

But it's happened before! Or--or, almost before! And I was trying so so hard to not do it again, ever, but then I went and killed Itsuki and this is just the kind of person I am, isn't it?!

[9mon]

It isn't. It isn't you, Danny. This place, these refractions, they don't make you.