[ It isn't really... like all that. Nothing quite so dramatic. And the part he didn't tell her of course is at the time he didn't think it would actually hurt him (hadn't been thinking at all really), as Allen's sword would not harm humans and only cut that which is evil...
..and yet it cut him.
And now he realizes that day, that cut, that scar—is the day that memory first began to truly waken in him.
(But that as far as Crown Clown was concerned, he was already "that which is evil" before then.)
And that's why he won't tell her any of that. Even if it makes him feel a little guilty, seeing how resolute she gets. ]
It's okay.
It'd be hard anyway— [ It's light, soft, almost airy with the way his eyes warm in appreciation, gratitude, and he brings his right (human) hand up... ]
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..and yet it cut him.
And now he realizes that day, that cut, that scar—is the day that memory first began to truly waken in him.
(But that as far as Crown Clown was concerned, he was already "that which is evil" before then.)
And that's why he won't tell her any of that. Even if it makes him feel a little guilty, seeing how resolute she gets. ]
It's okay.
It'd be hard anyway— [ It's light, soft, almost airy with the way his eyes warm in appreciation, gratitude, and he brings his right (human) hand up... ]