"Do something else? Like what? Run away? 'cause that might work well for you but if you're planning on making it out of this place, you have to worry about actually helping people and saving more than your own skin!"
She walked to a pillar that appeared before him, standing on it and towering over him with her feet spread soundly and her hands on her hips. If encouragement didn't work, maybe humiliation and intimidation would.
"We can't conquer this place by ourselves! This isn't a one-man caper, okay? We have to work together. We have to be a team to make it through and if you're not willing to be a contributing part of a team, then you might as well just throw yourself off the castle walls because the longer and longer we spend here, the less and less we can handle dead weight. You're not special, Harth."
She pointed a finger towards the entrance to the castle from the courtyard.
"Sokka, Spacebrain, Loudmouth, Heero, Quatre? They're not special. They're normal, too. But you know what? They have brains and they have other means of fighting. Haku? Some sort of technology but she's a good cook and when she can find the bits to make it work, she makes sure we all eat a good meal. Ratchet's just some cat-dove thing, but he's still a fighter and has ideas for awesome, effective weapons, which in turn give you normal people an edge that you didn't have before!"
Uuuuuh, who else was there that she could remember?
Oh well.
She leaned over him and poked him hard in the chest.
"And you know what they all have, regardless of ability or normalcy? They have fighting spirit! They have the want to get out of here! They have the nerve to say, 'I'm not taking this castle sitting down! Forget dark and scary Shadow Tits, I'm not staying here forever!' But you? You don't have that, Harth."
She pulled back and cocked an exaggeratedly girly posture, though she dropped her voice as low as she could, trying to mock him.
"'Oh, I'm useless! I don't want to be in the battle! I couldn't fight, so I just ran! Woe is me, 'cause I'm too weak to be of any use at all! I just need to be away from it all. Find something else for me to do, like, oh, I know, maybe a door mat!'"
By the end of it, her voice had returned back to her own and she was leaning to get in his face.
"But it's not true! You're not useless, okay? The only thing useless about you is your attitude to not do anything about your situation. About our situation! You can't fight? You can't do anything in battle? Or do you not want to fight or do anything in battle? I think you can, you just won't, because you have these thoughts that you're just dead weight and the reality of the situation is, you are!"
She straightened up and took a moment to breathe and calm down.
"... but you are because you say you are. It's like some self fulfilling rank or something. You think you're nothing, so you actually become nothing. Have some self respect. Some self esteem. Something."
She hopped from the pillar and let it collapse before walking on the stone behind him.
It felt good to yell, but she didn't want to yell at him, of all people. But his attitude just had irked her too much. ... and maybe she was a little biased. If she could blame what happened on anyone besides the shadows, it would have been Harth. She didn't blame him, but if he would have had the umption to say, 'yes, I want to learn how to fight so I'm not a sitting duck in this place,' then maybe she wouldn't have been a shadow... and hurt people.
She also didn't want any of her other friends to get hurt because of something Harth couldn't stop, because he 'couldn't fight.' Above all, ... she... didn't want him hurt, either.
In light of that, she didn't face him on the rock, just stood behind him, her back to him, a light blush on her cheeks as she continued, softer.
"I'm offering to teach you how to fight and take care of yourself so you're not useless and you're not in so much danger. I think you're a lot stronger than you think yourself to be. I can sense a deeper power, but maybe you haven't found it yet. I don't know."
So, Harth, was she seeing what you really were, or was she just saying that as a way to trick you into believing in yourself, you puny human?
"But the point is, you're not really as useless as you're trying to think yourself to be, so drop the self-pity and let's make something out of you."
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She walked to a pillar that appeared before him, standing on it and towering over him with her feet spread soundly and her hands on her hips. If encouragement didn't work, maybe humiliation and intimidation would.
"We can't conquer this place by ourselves! This isn't a one-man caper, okay? We have to work together. We have to be a team to make it through and if you're not willing to be a contributing part of a team, then you might as well just throw yourself off the castle walls because the longer and longer we spend here, the less and less we can handle dead weight. You're not special, Harth."
She pointed a finger towards the entrance to the castle from the courtyard.
"Sokka, Spacebrain, Loudmouth, Heero, Quatre? They're not special. They're normal, too. But you know what? They have brains and they have other means of fighting. Haku? Some sort of technology but she's a good cook and when she can find the bits to make it work, she makes sure we all eat a good meal. Ratchet's just some cat-dove thing, but he's still a fighter and has ideas for awesome, effective weapons, which in turn give you normal people an edge that you didn't have before!"
Uuuuuh, who else was there that she could remember?
Oh well.
She leaned over him and poked him hard in the chest.
"And you know what they all have, regardless of ability or normalcy? They have fighting spirit! They have the want to get out of here! They have the nerve to say, 'I'm not taking this castle sitting down! Forget dark and scary Shadow Tits, I'm not staying here forever!' But you? You don't have that, Harth."
She pulled back and cocked an exaggeratedly girly posture, though she dropped her voice as low as she could, trying to mock him.
"'Oh, I'm useless! I don't want to be in the battle! I couldn't fight, so I just ran! Woe is me, 'cause I'm too weak to be of any use at all! I just need to be away from it all. Find something else for me to do, like, oh, I know, maybe a door mat!'"
By the end of it, her voice had returned back to her own and she was leaning to get in his face.
"But it's not true! You're not useless, okay? The only thing useless about you is your attitude to not do anything about your situation. About our situation! You can't fight? You can't do anything in battle? Or do you not want to fight or do anything in battle? I think you can, you just won't, because you have these thoughts that you're just dead weight and the reality of the situation is, you are!"
She straightened up and took a moment to breathe and calm down.
"... but you are because you say you are. It's like some self fulfilling rank or something. You think you're nothing, so you actually become nothing. Have some self respect. Some self esteem. Something."
She hopped from the pillar and let it collapse before walking on the stone behind him.
It felt good to yell, but she didn't want to yell at him, of all people. But his attitude just had irked her too much. ... and maybe she was a little biased. If she could blame what happened on anyone besides the shadows, it would have been Harth. She didn't blame him, but if he would have had the umption to say, 'yes, I want to learn how to fight so I'm not a sitting duck in this place,' then maybe she wouldn't have been a shadow... and hurt people.
She also didn't want any of her other friends to get hurt because of something Harth couldn't stop, because he 'couldn't fight.' Above all, ... she... didn't want him hurt, either.
In light of that, she didn't face him on the rock, just stood behind him, her back to him, a light blush on her cheeks as she continued, softer.
"I'm offering to teach you how to fight and take care of yourself so you're not useless and you're not in so much danger. I think you're a lot stronger than you think yourself to be. I can sense a deeper power, but maybe you haven't found it yet. I don't know."
So, Harth, was she seeing what you really were, or was she just saying that as a way to trick you into believing in yourself, you puny human?
"But the point is, you're not really as useless as you're trying to think yourself to be, so drop the self-pity and let's make something out of you."