ricochetingbullets: (Actual emotions far)

[personal profile] ricochetingbullets 2025-06-02 10:31 am (UTC)(link)
You're a Catholic. You should know that saying: "Man makes plans. God laughs." Fisk was never going to be done with either of us after all that. And here we are.

I mean I'm attempting to find a way to do better than before, so clearly that influence is a good thing. At least in my case.

What was his name? The priest?


[It said something right there that Dex had never even bothered to learn the name of his victim in the church. Had hardly given him a second thought until he realized he really was a monster, killing someone innocent for no reason at all. And for what? He hadn't even completed the task Fisk had sent him there for in the first place. It had truly been a pointless death.]

I don't know. I'm making this up as I go along. All I'd been thinking about for a year was revenge on both the Fisks but that didn't go as planned either. I'm beginning to think whenever I have an idea in mind, I should start thinking of how many people are going to get hurt. I don't care about them but it always makes things worse for me in the end whenever I do what's going to bring me the most satisfaction in that moment.
ricochetingbullets: (Caught in a lie)

[personal profile] ricochetingbullets 2025-06-03 08:11 am (UTC)(link)
How many times have you tried using the legal system against him? None of them have ever stuck.

I don't need a saint to follow. I need someone flawed, a little messy, not afraid of me, and who doesn't hesitate to call me on my bullshit.

I think I understand now. Just a little bit what killing him meant for you emotionally.


[Whatever shred of empathy that resided in Dex had risen to the surface. Dr. Mercer dying had torn Dex up immensely as a teenager, given how she'd practically raised him by that point. He'd had so much anger being helpless to do anything while the cancer slowly ate away at her body. He could only imagine what he would have felt like if someone had killed her right in front of him.]

Having someone kill you is an easy way out. At least you're no longer in pain. When you kill someone ELSE a person cares about, you hurt them in such a way they're going to keep on being hurt forever.

It's difficult to function in a society with so many restrictions. But I'm trying to get back to a point where I can. Sometimes I think that I was just born too late. Anytime before things got really civilized in the 19th century, I would have been fine being the way I am.
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[personal profile] ricochetingbullets 2025-06-05 08:23 am (UTC)(link)
You know what they call doing the same thing over and over again but expecting different results? Insanity.

[Given he'd tried to kill the Fisks twice now and failed, he didn't have much room to talk.]

You think I don't know what it's like to have someone I love who I could talk to about anything die in front of my eyes while I couldn't do anything to stop it? I do. More than you know. But I won't argue the point. I hurt you badly when I killed him and there's no changing that.

Even when you kill a bad person? That's how I kept myself in check for so long. I took evil out of the world instead of letting it continue on.

I'm sure you would have too. A blind sheriff sounds like a main character I'd see in a B-western. I would have made a fantastic gunslinger you must admit.
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[personal profile] ricochetingbullets 2025-06-07 09:32 am (UTC)(link)
And when that inevitably fails again? Have you got a Plan B?

I was wondering when you'd get around wanting to talk about that. So let's get to it.

I didn't ever need to make those decisions before. I just did what I was told and hoped that was the right thing.

It does seem like you'd be involved with the law no matter when or where you are.
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[personal profile] ricochetingbullets 2025-06-09 08:26 am (UTC)(link)
I'm not sure if I admire how unbreakable your morals are or want to throw something at your head for being so unbearably naïve.

[There it was again. That confirmation he was a monster, that small echo of the words that bounced around inside where he should have had a proper conscience; would have had it if he didn't possess the mental conditions he'd been struggling with for so long.]

That wasn't a good decision. Even if it seemed like the only one I had at the time. But even if I hadn't done, Vanessa would have found someone else to. She was never going to let him walk away alive.

I take responsibility for what I've done. No one has killed all those people but me. But as long as I had my job, at least I knew I was only killing people to deserved it, who were dangerous criminals or terrorists. Now, the only thing I've got is my own instincts and we both know how shot to shit those are.
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[personal profile] ricochetingbullets 2025-06-11 10:02 am (UTC)(link)
Keep telling yourself that. That if it had been anyone else, your friend would still be alive. But when Vanessa Fisk wants someone dead, there's no stopping it.

I never hurt anyone who didn't deserve it while I still had a job to keep me in line and out of my own head. Do you know what it's like to live with the thoughts every day that tell you killing is the best and only solution for every problem? I had a life that kept me out of trouble until every last part of it was ruined.
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[personal profile] ricochetingbullets 2025-06-16 07:39 am (UTC)(link)
What do you want from me? An apology? I doubt I could give one that would satisfy you even if I was capable of giving one, which I'm not. True remorse isn't something I'm capable.

I know you have. Experienced that firsthand even. But you've got morals. The only thing that's ever kept me in line is rigid structures and someone to follow. I haven't had either of those in a long time now. I'm not sure I even know how to get it back.
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[personal profile] ricochetingbullets 2025-06-17 07:42 am (UTC)(link)
If there is anything after this, I already know where I'm going. Which makes me hope there's nothing.

There's the reason neither of us are ever going to get anywhere with the other. Neither of us can really understand or figure out what's going on in the other person's head.
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[personal profile] ricochetingbullets 2025-06-26 10:39 am (UTC)(link)
Regret requires being able to feel guilt. Guilt requires a conscience. I don't have one of those. Not an internal one anyway.

I find it interesting how you think though. From an objective point of view.
ricochetingbullets: (Trying to behave normally)

[personal profile] ricochetingbullets 2025-06-27 07:20 am (UTC)(link)
Must be. You blame yourself for everything. Even things that aren't your fault.

Why? You think my emotions keep getting in the way of things?
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[personal profile] ricochetingbullets 2025-06-28 04:39 am (UTC)(link)
I know part of you still blames yourself for the death of the priest. And your friend.

No. They're not.


[Lies.]
Edited 2025-06-28 04:39 (UTC)
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[personal profile] ricochetingbullets 2025-06-28 08:16 pm (UTC)(link)
You shouldn't.

[Yes, they'd both been associated with Matt and that had led directly to their deaths, but Dex knows he also made his own decisions there. He could have walked away, could have stopped associating with either of the Fisks at either time, could have chosen a thousand other options other than the ones he did.]

You are annoyingly persistent in trying to find out the truth, you know that?
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[personal profile] ricochetingbullets 2025-06-28 08:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Shouldn't blame yourself. Not as much as you do.

I was always more interested in the enforcement side of law and order. The truth has never interested me all that much.

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