True. But I think it also couldn't hurt to let him know that if he wanted to talk, there was a listening ear out there who wouldn't use it against him. Or try to break his nose or ribs, or any of those other unenlightened things no one would ever dream of doing, in a nice, morally upstanding city like this.
I think you're the first good person he's met who's ever been nice to him. Isn't that a strange thought? I'm not out bathing in the blood of lambs, but I'm certainly morally compromised.
They were street children. From what Luca says they're orphans, and apparently Luca looks very different from the others, enough that nobody would take them in. Apparently Jim did a lot of questionable things to make sure they stayed alive.
At some point, Luca made a contract with a demon -- he was a child, he didn't know better -- and the demon killed him. Luca regrets it now, and he knows the consequences of what happened.
Jim... after Luca's death, at some point- he underwent a radical personality change out of grief, and what Urahara and I suspect was an incredible amount of abuse. My guess is that it was whoever started calling him "Alois Trancy." He insists that "Jim" is dead.
... Urahara says that it's very likely that the abuse was sexual, too.
In my world, being born with red eyes is a sign of great misfortune. People know it, a child with red eyes will be cast out, kept away, and sometimes killed or thrown into the Abyss. Vincent had one red eye, which was enough.
Protected Vincent with all of his might, despite abandonment, being sold to the circus, thrown rocks, misery, starvation, the like.
Gilbert grew up all right, actually. Well. He developed complete amnesia, lost the first ten years or so, but he never really became objectionable. Just a little wobbly.
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Date: 2012-11-06 07:28 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-11-06 07:29 am (UTC)I'm willing to give him a chance if he continues this track record.
[Al knows all too well that he could break it at any point, but- this is a big step in... well, some direction.]
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Date: 2012-11-06 07:31 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-11-06 07:33 am (UTC)Well- a while.
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Date: 2012-11-06 07:35 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-11-06 07:39 am (UTC)I think he likes me. Is that strange?
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Date: 2012-11-06 07:40 am (UTC)[Confused about why this is a mystery.]
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Date: 2012-11-06 07:45 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-11-06 07:46 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-11-06 07:48 am (UTC)[Sometimes Al just loathes being young and impressionable.]
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Date: 2012-11-06 07:49 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-11-06 07:52 am (UTC)Really?
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Date: 2012-11-06 08:06 am (UTC)But tell me what has Alois in knots?
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Date: 2012-11-06 08:07 am (UTC)How well did you know about what happened to him?
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Date: 2012-11-06 08:08 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-11-06 08:15 am (UTC)They were street children. From what Luca says they're orphans, and apparently Luca looks very different from the others, enough that nobody would take them in. Apparently Jim did a lot of questionable things to make sure they stayed alive.
At some point, Luca made a contract with a demon -- he was a child, he didn't know better -- and the demon killed him. Luca regrets it now, and he knows the consequences of what happened.
Jim... after Luca's death, at some point- he underwent a radical personality change out of grief, and what Urahara and I suspect was an incredible amount of abuse. My guess is that it was whoever started calling him "Alois Trancy." He insists that "Jim" is dead.
... Urahara says that it's very likely that the abuse was sexual, too.
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Date: 2012-11-06 08:20 am (UTC)[Sitting up, paying close attention now.]
It isn't easy.
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Date: 2012-11-06 08:21 am (UTC)You have? Who?
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Date: 2012-11-06 08:23 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-11-06 08:24 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2012-11-06 08:26 am (UTC)In my world, being born with red eyes is a sign of great misfortune. People know it, a child with red eyes will be cast out, kept away, and sometimes killed or thrown into the Abyss. Vincent had one red eye, which was enough.
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Date: 2012-11-06 08:29 am (UTC)And Gilbert?
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Date: 2012-11-06 08:30 am (UTC)Gilbert grew up all right, actually. Well. He developed complete amnesia, lost the first ten years or so, but he never really became objectionable. Just a little wobbly.
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Date: 2012-11-06 08:31 am (UTC)I regret not meeting him.
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Date: 2012-11-06 08:33 am (UTC)(no subject)
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