sating: (who the fuck is greedo?)
dr. hannibal "polite vore man" lecter ([personal profile] sating) wrote 2017-02-09 01:59 am (UTC)

Ah... I see.

[ He nods along, though he does lapse into a short silence. It's a rather unusual question, and it's not quite one he considers often, so it takes him a genuine moment of thought to come to a conclusion. He could give a psychiatrist's answer, and it dances on the tip of his tongue, but he ends up giving a more honest one. ]

Strength is to survive. I mean survival in a broad sense here, not necessarily as something physical, though it can be. Strength is to look into the face of struggle and carry forward, not without fear, for fear is a part of us— But with as much understanding of that struggle as we can grasp.

[ He looks to her, and he gives a small nod ]

...Here, it's more literal than it tends to be. But I would define it the same way in Baltimore. When we look into the abyss, whether it is a game we're forced to play in or the despair of a trauma past, we can't avert our eyes from it. If we continue forward, then that, to me, is strength.

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