🔑"I manipulated you for a while, too, A.B.A."
🩸"Manipulated…? I wouldn't say that…"
A.B.A, sweetie, I'm sorry but uh yeah he WAS using you like a tasty convenient juice box for awhile there.
It might take her a bit to fully grasp what "manipulation" Paracelsus is referring to, or deep down she probably knows it already.
It makes me wonder what all happened between her introduction game and Strive. What made Paracelsus decide he needed to either wean off bloodsport, or did he go cold turkey?
Did something happen on their travels to make him have a realization that he didn't want to put A.B.A purposely in harms way ever again?
Or was it A.B.A's influence that finally chilled him out and made Paracelsus' personality mature?
I DON'T KNOW!! BUT IT'S INTERESTING TO THINK ABOUT!