knoll had been saddened to learn andrei had been eliminated, and then pleased indeed to hear that this was not actually the case. the mechanics and moving parts of this tournament elude him, of course, but nonetheless he’s happy to see that he’s back.
his approach is slow, measured, careful. “andrei. i have not caught up with you at all during this time, have i…? having been sent to and fro in order to play these games… i admit, i’ve been tired. but i would like to speak with you, if you’ve a moment.”
he looks at him, trying to read something in his face. if he finds what he’s looking for, he gives no indication. instead he merely blinks once, twice. “you’ve been here on this centre island for much of this tournament, yes? self-reporting becomes necessary. what…” he trails off, unsure how to phrase it, chooses casual wording, “what have you been up to?”
Andrei does not return to an empty cabin. With his other two teammates besides Bernadetta off in the other islands for the past weeks, they had truly not had much chance to see one another, let alone interact, over the past few days. As such, Knoll's invitation is initially not unwelcome. The question he asks, however...
"We were tasked with... interacting," Andrei replies, gaze drifting towards the corner of the cabin where shards of glass and dust laid not too long ago. He had pushed the more unpleasant aspects of the previous weeks' incidents from his mind, but it does not take much prompting for the conversations to flood the forefront of his memory once more.
It hadn't just been Bernadetta that he'd sought to hurt, after all. His brows furrow.
"...It has been a reminder of the fact that I am neither a kind, nor a good person," he says with the release of a breath, bitterness weighing heavy on his words. This should not be a surprise to Knoll. He'd made little secret of it, when they'd first met.
(So much for being an 'exceptional model of behavior'.)
"Even then, I am repeatedly shown goodwill." That he is still standing here is a testament to that. If not, he would've been eliminated. If not, he might not even have left the beachside alive. Andrei turns away fully now, long hair falling over his shoulder to hide his troubled expression, though the tone of his next words still carry it clearly. "It is nothing that I deserve," he confesses quietly.
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@amicablesprite re: hoffman in the later movies on a doylist level the shift in his character from IV to VII is definitely a result of different writers with different (and sometimes worse) understandings of him but watsonically i think you can definitely make a case for him genuinely just slowly going insane. he’s seen and taken part in so much death and horror it’s taken its toll and eventually something load-bearing ended up cracking. like all the stuff people say is out of character happens after the glass coffin anyway it feels so obvious that that was the tipping point…..he lost his sister and then his morals and then his last thread of human connection and now he’s finally lost his mind. and it rules
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fucked up evil creature experiences remorse
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or does it
[ID: an image drawover featuring a small xue yang, in which he is seen holding onto a blue sleeved arm and biting it only to then lean back and look confused. text beneath the drawing reads 'fucked up evil creature experiences remorse'. /end ID]
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Fucked up evil creature experiences remorse.
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