My threshold is significantly higher than most because of it, and so far the collective emotional vibrations on this vessel are something I can handle. [he says, days before getting nuked by precursor brain goblins.]
（ once you attain a certain level of power, people wish to kill you not simply for the bounty on your head, or the cruelties you have left littered in your wake. they want the prestige. they want the name. how many such individuals has he left a burnt-out, catatonic husk in the years since leaving konoha? the number never seemed relevant, before. ）
A shinobi's life is dangerous. One takes what protections they can to mitigate the inherent risks.
My clan has had a hand in or been at the forefront of every major war among our peoples for the past two hundred years. Vengeance, jealousy, hatred... any one of those is reason enough.
It makes a little more sense to me. While humans gave up much of their free will where I come from, war can still persist, and it is greater aided by unfeeling machines.
（ what is danzō shimura, if not an odd parallel to that? he looked upon his foundation as a dark necessity holding back the tides of war, but it seems in the end he only delayed it. ）
Yes. When people allow machines to control their paths forward, there is the chance to lose control of much more. It's a bias I cannot shake so easily...or so quickly.
（ at least he's not a hypocrite about it. itachi knows full well that he's one of the most dangerous people on the ximilia — something that may serve him well should a mission require something, as sabriel said, vile. ）
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Your strength was not in question. If you were otherwise, you would not have been able to enter my dreams.
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A shinobi's life is dangerous. One takes what protections they can to mitigate the inherent risks.
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I belong to a powerful clan. We have many enemies.
（ none of that is even remotely untrue at least. ）
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What is it your clan possesses that others want to take from you?
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My clan has had a hand in or been at the forefront of every major war among our peoples for the past two hundred years. Vengeance, jealousy, hatred... any one of those is reason enough.
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Thus your suspicion towards Viveca.
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It's a bias I cannot shake so easily...or so quickly.
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Allowing any force to control your life that fully is dangerous.
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（ and maybe an ounce of humour. somewhere. buried. ）
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It must mean something that you've entertained conversation with me as long as you have.
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Assessing the level of that threat requires familiarity.
（ did u think it was sentiment, blue. did u. ）
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You cannot change what you are. Anything else you may become in my mind will live alongside that, it will not replace it.
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It is not an insult, Blue.
（ at least he's not a hypocrite about it. itachi knows full well that he's one of the most dangerous people on the ximilia — something that may serve him well should a mission require something, as sabriel said, vile. ）
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It is a little difficult to understand you, but I think I have a little better.
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