WRITING that particular mental aside just about broke me, too. D:
Rorschach's doing the only thing that makes sense, really: he'd be no help in a fight right now and if Dan tried to help him they'd just both get captured, and then where would the world be? This way, ONE of them stays on the outside, and the box-o-secrets stays free. But it still SUCKS because you know all Dan wanted to do was back his partner up and kick some ass and, if necessary, go down fighting. Instead, he did the smart thing.
This is why there was such a delay on this chapter, because I KNEW this was how it was going to have to go, but it goes against what either of them would WANT so severely and so it took a lot of tweaking to get it feeling IC.
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Rorschach's doing the only thing that makes sense, really: he'd be no help in a fight right now and if Dan tried to help him they'd just both get captured, and then where would the world be? This way, ONE of them stays on the outside, and the box-o-secrets stays free. But it still SUCKS because you know all Dan wanted to do was back his partner up and kick some ass and, if necessary, go down fighting. Instead, he did the smart thing.
This is why there was such a delay on this chapter, because I KNEW this was how it was going to have to go, but it goes against what either of them would WANT so severely and so it took a lot of tweaking to get it feeling IC.