What would you know about it? [Korra glowers at him.] You avoid spending time with them. You won't spend time with anyone who's actually happy. If you're not here, talking to nobody, or at the factory talking to nobody, you're out with the most miserable, angry, messed up dredges of society. You talk like you know everything about everything, but you refuse to leave your little corner of misery.
[It drives her nuts --- had always driven her nuts --- how he isolates himself in cynicism and unhappiness. When given the opportunity to see a different side of life, too be with people who aren't completely miserable, he rejects it with an almost full-body horror. The most frustrating part is she understands where he's coming from. She's done the same thing herself, in the City, right after returning home, after being poisoned. She understands the jaded impulse. But art the end of the day, that dark cynicism just eats you alive. She doesn't want that for him.]
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Date: 2015-02-15 12:42 am (UTC)[It drives her nuts --- had always driven her nuts --- how he isolates himself in cynicism and unhappiness. When given the opportunity to see a different side of life, too be with people who aren't completely miserable, he rejects it with an almost full-body horror. The most frustrating part is she understands where he's coming from. She's done the same thing herself, in the City, right after returning home, after being poisoned. She understands the jaded impulse. But art the end of the day, that dark cynicism just eats you alive. She doesn't want that for him.]