"Well, you didn't want a power of friendship lecture, so I won't give you one." It's there if he wants it, but continuing to stress the point - at least in a straightforward, Phanton-Thieves kind of way, is only counterproductive with someone who doesn't want to listen.
"My advice instead... Consider every path laid before you. Not for what's most or least likely to happen, but for what the worst outcome of that path is. Then choose whichever of those you're okay with happening."
They're a pessimist to the core, after all. No amount of thinking about nice things that could happen will be able to overcome the bitter expectation that they won't. Therefore, pick the least-bad option.
The alleyway has gotten far too gloomy and long, and he wants his sushi. The Reaper Akechi does the cognitive equivalent of kicking the engine to jumpstart it, and in the next block or so, they emerge from the alleyway back onto the main streets, only a block or two from their destination.
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"My advice instead... Consider every path laid before you. Not for what's most or least likely to happen, but for what the worst outcome of that path is. Then choose whichever of those you're okay with happening."
They're a pessimist to the core, after all. No amount of thinking about nice things that could happen will be able to overcome the bitter expectation that they won't. Therefore, pick the least-bad option.
The alleyway has gotten far too gloomy and long, and he wants his sushi. The Reaper Akechi does the cognitive equivalent of kicking the engine to jumpstart it, and in the next block or so, they emerge from the alleyway back onto the main streets, only a block or two from their destination.