Underhanded, but smart. Instability is the perfect time to make a play for territory and influence.
[ Daigo did his best to run things above board, but to claim he never did anything underhanded or even cowardly would be incorrect. That's gokudo, and you play with the cards that are dealt to you. Sometimes there is no winning.
The face he makes at Shaxx is at the least a little amused. Bored with standing on ceremony already? He's not surprised but he hesitates anyway. He doesn't want to air our whatever abandonment issue bullshit he's carrying around. Just drink your tea. Just let me pretend to be fine until it's true. But in the end, he isn't going to refuse. He sets his cigarette aside and offers both hands, curling them in underneath.
Well. Here he is. Hurt in the way that he always has been, it's just noisy at the moment. That he's absolutely fucking cursed, that he's going to end up alone at the top of the world no matter what he does. ]
Better?
[ A wry note, bitter. He doesn't want to be like this. ]
no subject
[ Daigo did his best to run things above board, but to claim he never did anything underhanded or even cowardly would be incorrect. That's gokudo, and you play with the cards that are dealt to you. Sometimes there is no winning.
The face he makes at Shaxx is at the least a little amused. Bored with standing on ceremony already? He's not surprised but he hesitates anyway. He doesn't want to air our whatever abandonment issue bullshit he's carrying around. Just drink your tea. Just let me pretend to be fine until it's true. But in the end, he isn't going to refuse. He sets his cigarette aside and offers both hands, curling them in underneath.
Well. Here he is. Hurt in the way that he always has been, it's just noisy at the moment. That he's absolutely fucking cursed, that he's going to end up alone at the top of the world no matter what he does. ]
Better?
[ A wry note, bitter. He doesn't want to be like this. ]