Zelda_Story_Teller
Being a soldier is hard. It’s hard when you’re raised to be something and then people ask you to change. You can’t stop being who you are, can you?
Omega: I hated you for months after that day. I didn’t understand why you wouldn’t let us save you.
Tech: You…were not a soldier, Omega. You wouldn’t have understood that it was the only choice.
Omega: I know. It didn’t mean it didn’t sting. And it doesn’t mean I’m not terrified you’ll do it again.
Tech: Omega, if somehow the Lord gave me a second chance in that moment, I’d do it all over again. If it means keeping you safe? And my brother’s safe? Then I’d do it again and again. Because that is what a soldier does.
Omega: But when will you stop being a soldier? When do you get to be just a little selfish and put yourself first?!
Tech: Omega, I will never stop being a soldier. It is who I am and I can’t stop being who I am. But you won’t lose me. I can’t promise that you won’t but I can promise that I will try my damn hardest to never put you in that position again.
Zelda_Story_Teller
Fun fact: Tech’s line about doing it all over again if he got a second chance, that almost directly mirrors what Joel says to Ellie in their final conversation
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