Shade - Agent Of Spite

Shade#34 (S2): Fault

I'm a lot more complex than you could ever hope to be.

[Shade]

I don't need to be complex. That's the difference between you and me. You're a narcissistic egomaniac who doesn't know when to call it quits. And at the end of the day what's it all for? Shits and giggles?

[Modus]

There are all sorts of reasons to do anything. Even if it's just because you're bored. That's more than enough reason in my book.

[Shade]

And how many other people do things just because they want to and you call it crazy? You stir the pot, thinking that you're doing something innovative. When the reality is that nobody cares and the last person that should be trying to make them care is someone like you.

[Modus]

Who gives a damn, really? Anything I do, might as well be considered a stroke of genius compared to everyone else. I'm just someone who gives no regards. I do what no one else has the balls to do.

[Shade]

No, you do what no one else is as stupid to do because they're not jackasses. I mean all of that time wasted, boasting your bravado, and no one was even listening. No one cared.

[Modus]

Don't talk to me like that. We're not the same. I'm stronger than you, always have been, always will be.

[Shade]

Says the person who's dying and needs my help just to stay upright.

[Modus]

I didn't ask for your help, I'd rather die. Everybody's gonna die one day anyway so that's why I'm not too messed up about this. And you want to talk about being a narcissist and wasting time, you're the one who's wasting the most time.

[Shade]

Here we go.

[Modus]

Does it feel good when you screw off to wherever you crawl out of and know that you had to hide behind a mask to make a difference? If someone ever really needs you, what then? It's never going to amount to anything.

[Shade]

I feel like a lot of people would beg to differ.

[Modus]

And I'm sure they're all as spineless as you are.

[Shade]

Jeez, even while you're dying you're a shit human being.

[Modus]

... But am I lying? If you weren't a coward, you'd be running this city! All this talk about right and wrong, what's it for? To keep your pride in check. You've gotta stay the good guy just to operate... so that when you look someone in the face you have the moral high ground.

MODUS TAKES A BREATH.

[Modus]

And that's because you're a coward! All that you are is a personification of what normal people can't be. You fight a fight that's idealistic in nature. A fight for what you think is right and morally correct by all these laws and societal contracts. But as soon as someone like me comes along and says that I believe that it's right for me to have whatever I can take, you turn your nose up at me. A difference in ideals and you completely shun it. What could be more narcissistic and egotistical than that?

[Shade]

Gosh, you're so long-winded! If that's the hill you want to die on, then die there. The difference between you and me is that I'd never tell someone they'd have to conform to the way that I see things. I'd stop them, be done with it, and go on with my day.