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Raphael Hamato ([personal profile] othersdestructive) wrote in [community profile] ya_assemble 2014-11-05 09:34 am (UTC)

Raph laughed again.

"Your parents, who were crime bosses, didn't let you watch violent cartoons. Wow. That is some kinda mental gymnastics there. Gold medal caliber stuff."

It was twisted. The fact that it was so twisted had him looking at her with even more interest and wonder. What kind of person survived their world being torn down and filled with that much contradiction? How had she dealt with all that confusion and still become the kind of person willing to throw herself in the thick of it to save the sorry behinds of strangers? If not for her and the twins, he and Mikey probably would've wound up dissected and kept in many separate little jars.

"I don't see how anyone could think laser weapons are less violent than bullets. They cut through even more than bullets do. I also don't get the whole stupid idea that violent cartoons somehow make kids violent. Is that some kind of surface world thing? Having it so it's socially acceptable to let your kids get raised by the TV and not teaching them anything? At all?"

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