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[blackfire]

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[blackfire]

（ what diD HE SAY ABOUT PERCEIVING HIM. ）

I belong to a powerful clan. We have many enemies.

（ none of that is even remotely untrue at least. ）

[firstroar]

[it's called PROJECTING ONE'S OWN EXPERIENCE ON ANOTHERS, THANK YOU]

What is it your clan possesses that others want to take from you?

[blackfire]

You assume it is something we possess.

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.

[firstroar]

A kind of military power, then?

[blackfire]

Some would say so.

[firstroar]

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.

[blackfire]

（ 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. ）

Thus your suspicion towards Viveca.

[firstroar]

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.

[blackfire]

It is not only machines.

Allowing any force to control your life that fully is dangerous.

[firstroar]

Perhaps so. I've known nothing else to compare, not until encountering strangers like you and the others.

[blackfire]

Life is never simple.

[firstroar]

Put simply.

[blackfire]

I have a remarkable aptitude for brevity.

（ and maybe an ounce of humour. somewhere. buried. ）

[firstroar]

I've noticed.
It must mean something that you've entertained conversation with me as long as you have.

[blackfire]

You are a threat.

Assessing the level of that threat requires familiarity.

（ did u think it was sentiment, blue. did u. ）

[firstroar]

By then perhaps I will be seen as something different.

[blackfire]

No.

You cannot change what you are. Anything else you may become in my mind will live alongside that, it will not replace it.

[firstroar]

My nature is the threat, then?

[blackfire]

We are alike in that.

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. ）

[firstroar]

Nor a condemnation I suppose.
It is a little difficult to understand you, but I think I have a little better.

[blackfire]

（ you sure the fuck do not, buddy. ）

You are perceptive. I imagine it serves you.

（ telepath versus nearly-lifelong double agent, who will win?? itachi has spent so long suppressing his true nature he's not even sure if he can call it that, anymore. that gentle child is quite likely gone forever, the first casualty of the massacre. ）

[firstroar]

I've come to understand such abilities serve more than myself by design.

[blackfire]

And doubtless they lead to others taking advantage.

[firstroar]

That's only an issue if I'm somehow unable to perceive it. [VIVECA...] But anyone asking for my support would have it, should I be able to give it.

[blackfire]

That's foolish of you.

（ being taken advantage of doesn't always mean the person is aware of doing so, dummy. ）