[As if the videos they were shown earlier this month weren't enough...
The scenes are... heh, well. Not all that unfamiliar, to be honest. The wolves are different, certainly, but the starving people, the homeless, the gangs? When you live your life growing up in poor institutions, those are exactly the kinds of areas you tend to be in. Granted, most of the time they were well within the relative safety of the orphanage— "relative" being used very heavily, here— but when they were outside, playing behind a barbed wire fence, you could still see outside into the cold, cruel world, that seemed not to care for anyone...
The torturing and apparent cannibalism, though, isn't something he's used to seeing, and for a moment, he can't look away, horror written on his face. Killing people, destroying their Shadows— that was one thing entirely, and... well... up until a point, he hadn't even realized how horrific that could be. But this is...
When they finally start tearing into the corpses, he turns away violently, hand coming up to press to his mouth. He's breathing heavily, desperately trying to keep his stomach under control, even as he feels warm saliva fill his mouth.]
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The scenes are... heh, well. Not all that unfamiliar, to be honest. The wolves are different, certainly, but the starving people, the homeless, the gangs? When you live your life growing up in poor institutions, those are exactly the kinds of areas you tend to be in. Granted, most of the time they were well within the relative safety of the orphanage— "relative" being used very heavily, here— but when they were outside, playing behind a barbed wire fence, you could still see outside into the cold, cruel world, that seemed not to care for anyone...
The torturing and apparent cannibalism, though, isn't something he's used to seeing, and for a moment, he can't look away, horror written on his face. Killing people, destroying their Shadows— that was one thing entirely, and... well... up until a point, he hadn't even realized how horrific that could be. But this is...
When they finally start tearing into the corpses, he turns away violently, hand coming up to press to his mouth. He's breathing heavily, desperately trying to keep his stomach under control, even as he feels warm saliva fill his mouth.]