[an extremely frustrated sigh escapes his mouth as he rests his chin in his palm and his elbow on his knee]
Well, to be quite frank, when we made up our minds we were pretty resigned to people being angry at us. So that's not a big deal.
[I mean, it kind of is, but that's something he was at least prepared for]
And I'm aware of Dave's circumstances-- I talked to him about it, before he. . . but it isn't like we have the option to save only some dead people and leave the rest? 'Sides, even we don't know what the Unclean is going to do with the souls of the dead people if we don't rescue them. We never asked.
[and quite frankly, he hates the Unclean so much and wouldn't put it past her to do something HORRIBLE with the dead people if they don't rescue them]
And you can be glad Andersen blabbed all you want, but I'm pretty pissed at him for doing something stupid like sending an angry mob at our group. You're right-- a person is smart, but people are dumb, panicky dangerous animals.
Which is another reason dumping all of this on you at once seemed like a bad idea! I mean. . . hell, Dirk. We didn't want kids like Dipper or Mabel or Violet to feel like they had to kill someone, y'know? We didn't want to make them feel like they were going to be forced into selling their soul into eternal servitude for an eternity, either.
We don't want people to die, but if they have to in order for everyone to go home, then. . . [that is that, though he still hates that he's already resigned to that fact] We know the stakes. . . we know these are lives, and we know they're precious, and that's why we proceeded as cautiously as we could.
We couldn't afford to mess up.
[except, with Andersen, they definitely already did]
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Well, to be quite frank, when we made up our minds we were pretty resigned to people being angry at us. So that's not a big deal.
[I mean, it kind of is, but that's something he was at least prepared for]
And I'm aware of Dave's circumstances-- I talked to him about it, before he. . . but it isn't like we have the option to save only some dead people and leave the rest? 'Sides, even we don't know what the Unclean is going to do with the souls of the dead people if we don't rescue them. We never asked.
[and quite frankly, he hates the Unclean so much and wouldn't put it past her to do something HORRIBLE with the dead people if they don't rescue them]
And you can be glad Andersen blabbed all you want, but I'm pretty pissed at him for doing something stupid like sending an angry mob at our group. You're right-- a person is smart, but people are dumb, panicky dangerous animals.
Which is another reason dumping all of this on you at once seemed like a bad idea! I mean. . . hell, Dirk. We didn't want kids like Dipper or Mabel or Violet to feel like they had to kill someone, y'know? We didn't want to make them feel like they were going to be forced into selling their soul into eternal servitude for an eternity, either.
We don't want people to die, but if they have to in order for everyone to go home, then. . . [that is that, though he still hates that he's already resigned to that fact] We know the stakes. . . we know these are lives, and we know they're precious, and that's why we proceeded as cautiously as we could.
We couldn't afford to mess up.
[except, with Andersen, they definitely already did]