Don't act like you understand it yourself. Just leave me alone.
[He makes it sound so simple. Like that other person is totally separate from this Ariel, like it's something that ought to have a simple off switch. But it's not. Everything that's been dumped into his head has had a profound affect on this version, too. He's not okay. He's been altered and messed up, but he can't expect anyone else to understand that, just as Tristan said. No one else could grasp this kind of fear and anger and disorientation, so he won't even try to ask them to. He'll just keep it to himself and work it out himself, whatever that leads to.]
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[He makes it sound so simple. Like that other person is totally separate from this Ariel, like it's something that ought to have a simple off switch. But it's not. Everything that's been dumped into his head has had a profound affect on this version, too. He's not okay. He's been altered and messed up, but he can't expect anyone else to understand that, just as Tristan said. No one else could grasp this kind of fear and anger and disorientation, so he won't even try to ask them to. He'll just keep it to himself and work it out himself, whatever that leads to.]