[ He doesn't respond to assertions about danger to his own well-being not because he's being deliberately uncommunicative, but because the damage doesn't outweigh the benefit. The side-effects are a small price to pay, and it doesn't matter that he's got one small problem. It wasn't phrased as a question, and he's taking for granted that means it can be glossed over.
Easy enough to do. He's got practice.
He shakes his head dismissively, expression inscrutable, hair shifting and catching at his shoulders. ]
It's over. It's not important. I just-
[ A pause, and then finally he looks up to Tony — this new one, this version, who is the same except for all the ways he seems different. ]
The way you- he found out back home was... wrong. If it was the same with you, what happened... where you're from, I wanted to do it different. Sounds like it wasn't, though.
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Easy enough to do. He's got practice.
He shakes his head dismissively, expression inscrutable, hair shifting and catching at his shoulders. ]
It's over. It's not important. I just-
[ A pause, and then finally he looks up to Tony — this new one, this version, who is the same except for all the ways he seems different. ]
The way you- he found out back home was... wrong. If it was the same with you, what happened... where you're from, I wanted to do it different. Sounds like it wasn't, though.