It's why punishment--which is never a great strategy anyway--doesn't work on him. It only makes him believe he's right. It feeds right into the narrative he's built up.
I know. I just have to find what works for him. He's...definitely not like my other inmates. He's not at all like anyone I'd bring into my pack nowadays either. It's been a while since I was friends with anyone like him, and that didn't end well. So.
It's going to have to eventually. There's a lot of loss prevention on our end but in the end, they have to make mistakes. They have to fuck things up. They're never going to do anything differently if they can't.
I'm just dreading what Sephiroth's mistakes look like. He's intimidating.
He's going to be here a long time, Lark. I know that, and you know that. And you're one of the only people - besides Jon, I think - who really seems to care whether he gets out of here or not.
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We actually had a good talk the other day. Found some common ground and everything.
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He’s just more feral than I am.
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I'm just hoping that knowing you, knowing more people here, he'll realize he can get by a better way.
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Has he talked to you about graduation at all?
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I tried to talk to him about it, but he thinks he’s a bad person.
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It's why punishment--which is never a great strategy anyway--doesn't work on him. It only makes him believe he's right. It feeds right into the narrative he's built up.
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And not doing anything about the things he does wrong doesn’t teach him anything, either.
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private; retroactively marking the thread private as well
Were you and Sephiroth friends before he became who he is now?
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He wasn’t someone I could hang out or have fun with, but we trusted each other.
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I’m not worried he’s going to take my sword and try to kill me in my sleep, but I do feel like I’m just…waiting for the other shoe to drop, sometimes.
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I'm just dreading what Sephiroth's mistakes look like. He's intimidating.
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That's the thing. For him to fuck up, he'd actually have to give enough of a shit to fuck up. And by the time it gets to that point, well...
[ It's a Nibelheim scenario. A nightmare. ]
I gave Jon a statement a while ago, actually. About the incident where he changed. If you want to listen to it, I don't mind.
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So yeah. I'd rather you be informed than not.
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