#and nobody DOES ever tell danny a teenager shouldnt be doing what he does

[halfghcst]

@ratwhsprs sent:

❝ just because you can, doesn’t mean it should have to be you. ❞

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The previously animated activity of feeding the cute rats that gathered around, slowed, almost stopping entirely. Something about those words were taking a long time to process in Phantom's brain. Maybe it was the fact that now that he thought about it, nobody had told him anything like it before. The words made sense and no sense to the boy all at the same time. He was a teenager after all, he probably shouldn't be this way. But nobody who knew what he was had ever done anything but encourage him to keep going the way he was. Frostbite, Clockwork, Pandora, even his sister and friends. They never even questioned that this might be wrong for him to be doing.

Other than Vlad, who wanted him to go in the opposite direction, morality wise.

He was quiet for a moment, unsure of how to respond. "I never.... I never thought about it like that..."

But, even as he considered the other's words, he wasn't sure he could just ignore when bad things happened. Sure, he was low on energy and barely sustaining himself as it was. But what if, like last night, if he saw someone in danger and did nothing? It seemed to happen a lot here, one way or another. What if he was the only one around who could do something?

"I don't know... maybe it does have to be me?" His glowing green gaze turned back to his new friend. "Before ending up here... it was always me."

He didn't know retelling the events of the Diner robbery he stopped the night before would lead to this line of thought. The lady who worked there had been so nice to him all the time. He couldn't and wouldn't have done anything different in his mind.