[Jaime's not normally forthright about these sorts of things, but the mere idea of losing the bedrock of what Minato means to him is enough to startle him into honestly, something that virtual strangers like Kaneda usually don't get the luxury of.]
Never tell him I told you this, but... yeah. I've seen a lot of things since I got here, bad things, but that was the worst. I can't think of any worse, either.
[It's hard to get that out of his memory. It took a long time for the first mental image to spring to mind when he thought of Ken to be one of his smile, and not the way he looked that night, so small, and lost, and scared, convinced the only way to solve his existence was simply to not exist at all.]
Kinda glad you weren't around then. It's good for him to have someone who only got to know him after.
[No matter what, Kaneda's always going to be less gentle than Jaime is. Part of that is through sheer force of personality - Jaime is, at his heart, a soft touch, finding it easier to murmur than to yell, and Kaneda seems to be the opposite - but part of that is when and how they had gotten to know Ken as well. Ken's strong, stronger than most kids, in more ways than one, but part of Jaime's always going to see that scared child, beside him, but still just beyond his reach.]
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[Jaime's not normally forthright about these sorts of things, but the mere idea of losing the bedrock of what Minato means to him is enough to startle him into honestly, something that virtual strangers like Kaneda usually don't get the luxury of.]
Never tell him I told you this, but... yeah. I've seen a lot of things since I got here, bad things, but that was the worst. I can't think of any worse, either.
[It's hard to get that out of his memory. It took a long time for the first mental image to spring to mind when he thought of Ken to be one of his smile, and not the way he looked that night, so small, and lost, and scared, convinced the only way to solve his existence was simply to not exist at all.]
Kinda glad you weren't around then. It's good for him to have someone who only got to know him after.
[No matter what, Kaneda's always going to be less gentle than Jaime is. Part of that is through sheer force of personality - Jaime is, at his heart, a soft touch, finding it easier to murmur than to yell, and Kaneda seems to be the opposite - but part of that is when and how they had gotten to know Ken as well. Ken's strong, stronger than most kids, in more ways than one, but part of Jaime's always going to see that scared child, beside him, but still just beyond his reach.]