"Don't look away," Dirk commands him, immediately--the potential 'gross out' factor is something that occurs to him only when Ranboo starts shutting down again, but it doesn't inspire sympathy, only impatience. The existential layer doesn't occur to him at all--after all, Dirk's own response to that exact pain is to stare it directly in the eye. Literally, and repeatedly. As often as possible. For Dirk, it becomes a compulsion--he has to seek it out, he has to re-experience it again and again.
So shutting your eyes to it doesn't make any sense.
Regardless, he barely waits for Ranboo to blink--to open his eyes, or not--before he starts to talk, in the same factual, flat tone that he uses when waxing soliloquil about Plato's dialogues while gaming. Just a little faster.
"You told me it was the brain, and you were right. Once I decapitated her, she stopped being a problem, so that was obvious. But the brain isn't the only essential organ for life. Technically most of them are, but most of them don't kill you in seconds when they stop, or revive you pretty much instantly when they're 'turned on.' So there had to be something else. Something connecting the brain to something else, otherwise she'd just be conscious long enough to experience the dying part again, not up and on her feet to attack us. You have no fucking idea how hard it is to open up a human skull without crushing anything inside--"
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Date: 2024-08-17 10:31 am (UTC)So shutting your eyes to it doesn't make any sense.
Regardless, he barely waits for Ranboo to blink--to open his eyes, or not--before he starts to talk, in the same factual, flat tone that he uses when waxing soliloquil about Plato's dialogues while gaming. Just a little faster.
"You told me it was the brain, and you were right. Once I decapitated her, she stopped being a problem, so that was obvious. But the brain isn't the only essential organ for life. Technically most of them are, but most of them don't kill you in seconds when they stop, or revive you pretty much instantly when they're 'turned on.' So there had to be something else. Something connecting the brain to something else, otherwise she'd just be conscious long enough to experience the dying part again, not up and on her feet to attack us. You have no fucking idea how hard it is to open up a human skull without crushing anything inside--"