[ He's forgotten he hasn't told Yusuke about exactly what he is and what he was meant for. It's not out of deception or any lack of trust - or else he wouldn't be telling Yusuke now - but over the years, it's become less and less important.
Until now. ]
But we were never meant for anything good. They're conquerors, slavers. They send their technology to planets to wait - and once the planet's advanced enough to generate the sort of resources they want, they come in, conquer the planet, and enslave everyone on it, milk it for resources, and move onto the next one. When it's time, their tech chooses a host from that planet to be their slaver and conqueror for them. It's supposed to take over their body and mind, and the Reach control the rest.
[ Jaime places one hand on his chest. ]
That was supposed to be me. Us. We were gonna be the bad guys. In some universes, we are.
[ Obviously that never came to pass, otherwise Jaime wouldn't be sitting in front of Yusuke now, but he'd gotten to know Bart well enough to know what a future in which his plan never worked looks like. There's no real threat of it happening now, to this world, not without the entirety of the Reach at the Negotiator's command, but that the Negotiator had tried still hangs over him. It's difficult to know what his next move will be, seeing the one he'd tried so desperately to control within his reach. ]
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[ He's forgotten he hasn't told Yusuke about exactly what he is and what he was meant for. It's not out of deception or any lack of trust - or else he wouldn't be telling Yusuke now - but over the years, it's become less and less important.
Until now. ]
But we were never meant for anything good. They're conquerors, slavers. They send their technology to planets to wait - and once the planet's advanced enough to generate the sort of resources they want, they come in, conquer the planet, and enslave everyone on it, milk it for resources, and move onto the next one. When it's time, their tech chooses a host from that planet to be their slaver and conqueror for them. It's supposed to take over their body and mind, and the Reach control the rest.
[ Jaime places one hand on his chest. ]
That was supposed to be me. Us. We were gonna be the bad guys. In some universes, we are.
[ Obviously that never came to pass, otherwise Jaime wouldn't be sitting in front of Yusuke now, but he'd gotten to know Bart well enough to know what a future in which his plan never worked looks like. There's no real threat of it happening now, to this world, not without the entirety of the Reach at the Negotiator's command, but that the Negotiator had tried still hangs over him. It's difficult to know what his next move will be, seeing the one he'd tried so desperately to control within his reach. ]