[ He nods, swallowing his pride (not over Markus' advice, but over accepting that he's not the man he thought he was; he's just like Ward). ]
Maybe.
[ it's hard for him to reconcile his newfound duality as scales, but he doesn't know what it could be, otherwise. remnants of programming, embedded in his brain when he was forced from the system; post-traumatic stress disorder; prodromal schizophrenia; exacerbation of previous brain trauma following hypoxia. he ran the scenarios.
if the voice persists, perhaps it can become more of a dialogue and less of a fight for the wheel. he tried letting go, riding shotgun, while the other fitz steered the mission, and he nearly paid for it with cain or carter's lives. markus is right that needs to compromise, instead of flickering in and out. of that much, he's certain.
he leans forward, features open and unguarded, as they only are with a select few here. ]
But what if I don't know when the scales are tipped too far one way or the other?
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Maybe.
[ it's hard for him to reconcile his newfound duality as scales, but he doesn't know what it could be, otherwise. remnants of programming, embedded in his brain when he was forced from the system; post-traumatic stress disorder; prodromal schizophrenia; exacerbation of previous brain trauma following hypoxia. he ran the scenarios.
if the voice persists, perhaps it can become more of a dialogue and less of a fight for the wheel. he tried letting go, riding shotgun, while the other fitz steered the mission, and he nearly paid for it with cain or carter's lives. markus is right that needs to compromise, instead of flickering in and out. of that much, he's certain.
he leans forward, features open and unguarded, as they only are with a select few here. ]
But what if I don't know when the scales are tipped too far one way or the other?