The Ghost is trying to shock him and Bunny resolves immediately not to let him see that he is shocked.
The unfortunate part of being an empathetic person who's survived to witness all the suffering humanity has to put each other through is that each time, the sight of a devastatingly injured child doesn't become less shocking. He never gets numb to it.
But this ghost will not cry over him. Tenten will not benefit one bit if he cries over her.
"Oh, you mean it's gonna be difficult? Gosh, what ever am I gonna do with a problem that can't be hugged away?" Bunny snorts. "Get outta here with your her life ended. This is why I'm the Guardian of Hope and you're not."
For all that he has done so much to successfully steer his world in a kinder, gentler, more protective, less painful course, he has failed and failed and failed again. And allowing himself the indulgence, the selfishness of wallowing over his failure, of making Tenten's pain about him, or even of ignoring it, would only make him fail more.
He hasn't survived this long, doing the work he's done, by falling apart every time he fails a kid.
Bunny looks straight at the half-skinned vision of Tenten, allowing just a little bit of compassion to come through in his gaze. "Undermine her therapy, got it. You got any more concrete advice about this kid, or are you fishing for postwar therapy? Because get in line, mate, we could all use it."
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The unfortunate part of being an empathetic person who's survived to witness all the suffering humanity has to put each other through is that each time, the sight of a devastatingly injured child doesn't become less shocking. He never gets numb to it.
But this ghost will not cry over him. Tenten will not benefit one bit if he cries over her.
"Oh, you mean it's gonna be difficult? Gosh, what ever am I gonna do with a problem that can't be hugged away?" Bunny snorts. "Get outta here with your her life ended. This is why I'm the Guardian of Hope and you're not."
For all that he has done so much to successfully steer his world in a kinder, gentler, more protective, less painful course, he has failed and failed and failed again. And allowing himself the indulgence, the selfishness of wallowing over his failure, of making Tenten's pain about him, or even of ignoring it, would only make him fail more.
He hasn't survived this long, doing the work he's done, by falling apart every time he fails a kid.
Bunny looks straight at the half-skinned vision of Tenten, allowing just a little bit of compassion to come through in his gaze. "Undermine her therapy, got it. You got any more concrete advice about this kid, or are you fishing for postwar therapy? Because get in line, mate, we could all use it."