thebomb: s4 (84)
Armin Arlert ([personal profile] thebomb) wrote in [community profile] humiliatious 2024-08-08 01:13 am (UTC)

[If Saelfen is offering the item, then Armin will take it - perhaps a bit too quickly, even. It is a repulsive thing. He knows.

[The question is massive. Armin doesn't know how to begin to answer. How is one meant to acknowledge the evil in their own hearts? That's what this conch shell represents.

[Armin doesn't look distressed nor disturbed - perhaps appropriately self-aware that what they're discussing is unattractive, but that's all. He puts a small smile on, inclining his head toward Saelfen.

[All good lies contain an element of the truth. Sometimes the best lie is almost the truth in its entirety. Sometimes its only withholding some of the details. And Armin doesn't have to tell him anything he doesn't want to.]

I can't say that I want it. It isn't that at all. [True.] I recognize it, is all.

It's a relic. Left over from a war. [Lie. It's a stain leftover from hope.]

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