[Wukong almost abruptly deflates, looking down at the cup in his hands.]
Because I'm a fuck-up. It hasn't mattered how I approach trying to help or to protect what matters, I mess it up and everything falls apart. I can't give people what they need.
When it comes to MK, I've never had the confidence issues that he has. I've always been comfortable in who I am. Never questioned if I'm good enough to be where I am. I can reassure him that he's enough, be encouraging and proud of him and mean it because I am. But I can't help the doubts and fears because I don't know how.
With Red Son, empathy never works for him because he's past wanting empathy and being able to empathize past people he cares about. He wants it acknowledged that he was hurt and that's wrong, without having to deal with any of the things surrounding that. And I struggle with that, so I can't really do much there except be available.
Macaque...well that's pretty much all me. I gave him the impression that I was in it for myself, when I thought I was securing our future together. He made that more than clear when we had our first fall-out. Recently we've been working through the fact that I wasn't clear that we were mates back then and I had chosen him, even though I thought I was being obvious. But...I can tell that there's still something there that I'm not doing, or seeing, or giving him.
And those are just the examples for people who are here.
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Because I'm a fuck-up. It hasn't mattered how I approach trying to help or to protect what matters, I mess it up and everything falls apart. I can't give people what they need.
When it comes to MK, I've never had the confidence issues that he has. I've always been comfortable in who I am. Never questioned if I'm good enough to be where I am. I can reassure him that he's enough, be encouraging and proud of him and mean it because I am. But I can't help the doubts and fears because I don't know how.
With Red Son, empathy never works for him because he's past wanting empathy and being able to empathize past people he cares about. He wants it acknowledged that he was hurt and that's wrong, without having to deal with any of the things surrounding that. And I struggle with that, so I can't really do much there except be available.
Macaque...well that's pretty much all me. I gave him the impression that I was in it for myself, when I thought I was securing our future together. He made that more than clear when we had our first fall-out. Recently we've been working through the fact that I wasn't clear that we were mates back then and I had chosen him, even though I thought I was being obvious. But...I can tell that there's still something there that I'm not doing, or seeing, or giving him.
And those are just the examples for people who are here.