( it's a soft admission. there are layers to it, some truthful, some not. there's a reason that this guy has taken an interest in him, and he doesn't think he was brought here for any investigation.
the part of him that grew up too fast, that became a creature very much spit out of the gutter, the one that did a thousand seedy, unmentionable things, the one that took money from people who were already broke to support an addiction they couldn't break, that guy thinks that this is. part of a larger plan. some seed sewn into a plot of land that will bear fruit one day. not tomorrow, not the next. ten years from now, something. he has a startling premonition — if they were to play pai sho together, mako genuinely thinks he'd lose. dick is sweet and soft and compassionate, but mako is a lot of things a lot of people would love to manipulate, too. one of the avatar's best friends. he's close with one of the most wealthy industrialists in the city. chief beifong's right hand man. the brother to a popular mover star, who can sway crowds with a word, and the only living lavabender in the world. he's nothing on his own, just. a bender with above-average talent, a half-decent cop, but he isn't remarkable like the people in his life are.
and if anyone wanted to hurt those people, he'd be. a weak link. a chink in the armor, something exploitable, something ruinous.
yet, for all that his mind flashes down those avenues, considers those realities, he looks back at dick and he just. doesn't think that's it. )
My investigation ends with me arresting you.
( he says that warningly, although. that couldn't be farther from where he is right now, in his mind. )
And if you wanted to... hang out with me. ( which sounds like such a soft, juvenile thing, but it makes something twist in his belly. ) You could have just asked.
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the part of him that grew up too fast, that became a creature very much spit out of the gutter, the one that did a thousand seedy, unmentionable things, the one that took money from people who were already broke to support an addiction they couldn't break, that guy thinks that this is. part of a larger plan. some seed sewn into a plot of land that will bear fruit one day. not tomorrow, not the next. ten years from now, something. he has a startling premonition — if they were to play pai sho together, mako genuinely thinks he'd lose. dick is sweet and soft and compassionate, but mako is a lot of things a lot of people would love to manipulate, too. one of the avatar's best friends. he's close with one of the most wealthy industrialists in the city. chief beifong's right hand man. the brother to a popular mover star, who can sway crowds with a word, and the only living lavabender in the world. he's nothing on his own, just. a bender with above-average talent, a half-decent cop, but he isn't remarkable like the people in his life are.
and if anyone wanted to hurt those people, he'd be. a weak link. a chink in the armor, something exploitable, something ruinous.
yet, for all that his mind flashes down those avenues, considers those realities, he looks back at dick and he just. doesn't think that's it. )
My investigation ends with me arresting you.
( he says that warningly, although. that couldn't be farther from where he is right now, in his mind. )
And if you wanted to... hang out with me. ( which sounds like such a soft, juvenile thing, but it makes something twist in his belly. ) You could have just asked.