Compared to everything else I've ever known you're a saint.
[Maybe not compared to the ship. Plenty of people have been kind to him here, but once he's gone? What will it matter? This is the person in his life that's been the best to him. When he's told people about the things that Venom Snake has done, he hasn't been lying. Venom is every bit as impressive as Big Boss. He saved him under insurmountable odds. He's been honest, blunt, did what was necessary, gentle with a wounded and painful body when John never would have. He knows Venom has had to do terrible things, because they were necessary though. Given a choice, he would have just held people together.]
[But he also knows that Venom isn't happy with his life. Knowing the future isn't necessary to realize that. It's a familiar look in his eye, the way he goes empty sometimes. Something he saw in another man a long time ago.]
[He's worried about those next words, the automatic assumption a wall is about to be raised, only permeable with constant pressure. But there's been enough that they haven't been saying.]
no subject
[Maybe not compared to the ship. Plenty of people have been kind to him here, but once he's gone? What will it matter? This is the person in his life that's been the best to him. When he's told people about the things that Venom Snake has done, he hasn't been lying. Venom is every bit as impressive as Big Boss. He saved him under insurmountable odds. He's been honest, blunt, did what was necessary, gentle with a wounded and painful body when John never would have. He knows Venom has had to do terrible things, because they were necessary though. Given a choice, he would have just held people together.]
[But he also knows that Venom isn't happy with his life. Knowing the future isn't necessary to realize that. It's a familiar look in his eye, the way he goes empty sometimes. Something he saw in another man a long time ago.]
[He's worried about those next words, the automatic assumption a wall is about to be raised, only permeable with constant pressure. But there's been enough that they haven't been saying.]
Yeah?