[It does, but regardless she doesn't understand it.
Maybe it's a reflex too well-trained into Doppio that he doesn't realize it, but in her mind, he said it himself, didn't he?
Nothing's changed.
Which begs the question of how he can comfortably engage with the idea that he and his Boss were once the same man, but the significance it holds regarding his relationship to her is too hard for him to acknowledge? He certainly can't be feeling anything like remorse or guilt with this information being held up for him to examine. Indeed, neither iterations of her father are capable of that.
Maybe she's being uncharitable. Waking up and realizing you are a duo and you have a daughter is a weird, destabilizing fact to someone who's lived a lie for so long, but at that point how can anyone draw a line in the sand over what is or isn't too much? None of it is normal!
Still, she tries to explain it. She hasn't got the patience for denial, but it does occur to her Diavolo probably did not engage the topic like she is right now.]
Doppio, listen to me.
You cohabited a body with your boss, something you yourself have stated and discussed not even minutes ago. That makes you the same age as him regardless of what you may or may not remember for yourself.
It makes us family by blood.
You haven't got any reason to panic and hide from this fact. We both know it. Diavolo knows it. It's a simple truth.
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Maybe it's a reflex too well-trained into Doppio that he doesn't realize it, but in her mind, he said it himself, didn't he?
Nothing's changed.
Which begs the question of how he can comfortably engage with the idea that he and his Boss were once the same man, but the significance it holds regarding his relationship to her is too hard for him to acknowledge? He certainly can't be feeling anything like remorse or guilt with this information being held up for him to examine. Indeed, neither iterations of her father are capable of that.
Maybe she's being uncharitable. Waking up and realizing you are a duo and you have a daughter is a weird, destabilizing fact to someone who's lived a lie for so long, but at that point how can anyone draw a line in the sand over what is or isn't too much? None of it is normal!
Still, she tries to explain it. She hasn't got the patience for denial, but it does occur to her Diavolo probably did not engage the topic like she is right now.]
Doppio, listen to me.
You cohabited a body with your boss, something you yourself have stated and discussed not even minutes ago. That makes you the same age as him regardless of what you may or may not remember for yourself.
It makes us family by blood.
You haven't got any reason to panic and hide from this fact. We both know it. Diavolo knows it. It's a simple truth.