That actually takes him off guard. Wirt realizes at that moment that he was, perhaps, projecting. That he was still wanting to see something in Sokka that just wasn't there. That, deep down, Sokka would still be fundamentally human in some respects.
He wasn't. Not anymore. Whatever he was, it was entirely monstrous and destructive, too much like the Beast. A part of Wirt wants to think that he isn't entirely wrong, but he can't be sure anymore. Sokka is too wild, too consumed with despair to actually predict.
But Sokka. If you're despair and she's hope, and not just that but someone that could signal hope in someone else, could be that important to someone else and you're showing that she's still alive and that there IS still hope...
Sokka. That was unbelievably dumb of you.
At Sokka's words, Wirt makes his face fall, looking down at the ground for a moment, before looking back up at Sokka, shuddering a little.]
There's...there's really no other way out of this, is there? There's nothing we can say to change your mind?
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That actually takes him off guard. Wirt realizes at that moment that he was, perhaps, projecting. That he was still wanting to see something in Sokka that just wasn't there. That, deep down, Sokka would still be fundamentally human in some respects.
He wasn't. Not anymore. Whatever he was, it was entirely monstrous and destructive, too much like the Beast. A part of Wirt wants to think that he isn't entirely wrong, but he can't be sure anymore. Sokka is too wild, too consumed with despair to actually predict.
But Sokka. If you're despair and she's hope, and not just that but someone that could signal hope in someone else, could be that important to someone else and you're showing that she's still alive and that there IS still hope...
Sokka. That was unbelievably dumb of you.
At Sokka's words, Wirt makes his face fall, looking down at the ground for a moment, before looking back up at Sokka, shuddering a little.]
There's...there's really no other way out of this, is there? There's nothing we can say to change your mind?
[Look at him, Sokka. He's starting to get it.
Please believe that he's starting to get it.]