#basically this is the ep24 blacna & ash convo but blanca goes “wait shit i was wrong”

[chaoslynx]

Chapters: 1/1

Word Count: 2091

"Ash," he says, and for maybe the first time, Ash thinks he might hear hesitance in Blanca's voice.

"Hm?"

"Why do you think I was told there was no need to teach you restraint?"

Ash swallows. "Dino's never been much for restraint," he says, a bit of a dry laugh escaping from his lungs. "I'm not surprised. Not really."

"Does any other reason come to mind?"

Ash is silent at that. He doesn't know what to say. He doesn't know if he ever has. Not to Blanca.

"Little Lynx," Blanca says, and his voice is about as gentle as Ash has ever heard it. He's thrown back, suddenly, to a seedy motel room and a panic attack and the first kind touch on his skin in years.

Ash's breath is shaky, so he doesn't even bother trying to respond.

"I was told—and can confirm from my time watching you—that there is no need to teach you restraint, or how to go easy on someone. In fact, it took everything in me to train as much as that as I could out of you."

"What do you mean?" Ash croaks.

"Given the choice, you always chose forgiveness."

Blanca gains self-awareness.