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[hopefragment]

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[hopefragment]

[He doesn't answer immediately; it might be safe to assume that thanks to a lack of text bubbles attempting to type while Rin is, Hajime may have just started to ignore his communicator to do something else. But while maybe that would be the better option, he's really just sitting there, reading it quietly to himself.

He's seen the way talent affects people -- it's hard not to think about Nagito, sometimes, and how his "luck" must have shaped that incredible malice Hajime and the others had experienced. Or the expectations of a yakuza learning about someone who might have been involved in his sister's death, or... the list goes on.

Before he could even begin to form a response to all of that, though, he reads the rest, just staring down at it. A... problem-solver...? On the island, he always felt like he needed someone like Chiaki or Nagito to help him find the truth. BUt these kinds of problems...]

i wouldn't call that talent. like i said... i don't want to sit around feeling sorry for myself. anyone would work to do the same, in their own way.

["Talent" is that thing that Hope's Peak scouts people for. Something like "problem-solving" might be a skill, might be something he's somewhat good at, but not to the point of being the best.]

but... thanks. i get what you're saying, really. maybe it's something i need to think about more.

Re: text

[gnasher]

[he wants to keep pushing it, but he's been made quite aware recently that trying to force others into making the choices he believes are for the best is a pretty shitty, toxic habit; if Hinata says he needs time to think about things, then he needs time, even if Rin ascribes more to the "sink or swim" approach]

[after all, Rin knows what it's like to fail over and over again at meeting your own absurdly high standards -- he's aiming to be one of the best in the world at swimming -- and he can't imagine what damage could have been done, if he'd been pushed too hard while struggling through his own doubts and insecurities]

[he likes Hinata. he wants what's best for him, he does, but he'll have to come to his own conclusions (unless they're completely stupid, in which case Rin doesn't mind continuing to push, of course)]

i'm aiming olympic. i know what it's like to feel as if hard work and best effort won't ever be enough in the face of innate talent.

[haru is more talented than him; that's a fact that has both crushed and excited him his whole life]

so if you wanna talk about it more after you've had some time to think, i'll be around.