[At first Abbacchio opens his mouth like he's going to interrupt with some other point, but he thinks better of it. And when he shuts up and listens, he reaches the same conclusion anew for each of Bruno's points; he's still right. They're all falling apart in different directions, himself included, and they do still perpetuate Bruno's place among them as the leader and the fixer. That doesn't shine a flattering light on any of them to hear Bruno say it himself, but that...
Saying it himself is the point. Abbacchio shifts his weight and leans back against the railing as he listens in silence, and he thinks it's lucky, in a backwards way, that it's him standing here instead of one of the others. Abbacchio already knows their family is a mess, even if he's arrived at the right conclusion in the wrong way.
And more importantly--Abbacchio isn't going to apologize or try to defend them. They've all done it, so why act otherwise now? He shrugs, hands palm-up, shaking his head.]
We're a pack of bastards with bad habits-- that's what we've always been. You're not wrong about us. But what you've always done doesn't apply anymore because you died and now things have to change, if you'd actually let them. How the hell can you tell me things aren't the way they were and then insist on doing the same shit you always do?
[Does that make any fucking sense because please, enlighten him if it does. Everything is different now in ways no one, Bruno included, was prepared to deal with, and Bruno isn't excluded from the fallout. This adjustment period is difficult enough without adding that to the mix.
He shifts his shoulders again, tense; there's something else that bothers him about this insistence that Bruno has to keep them together-- that they're all woefully inadequate for the job of keeping Giorno together too. It's not petty, though. It's not. But he looks steadily straight ahead and away from Bruno anyway, as it's not the easiest point to bring up.]
You can't take care of things for us-- for Giorno and Mista if they ever get out of here and go home. And Mista won't do it, [a slight tilt of his head; yeah that's true, Mista is too up Giorno's ass all the time-] so sooner or later Giorno has to deal with his own shit without your help.
[Giorno taking charge in Napoli is not Abbacchio's primary concern, but if they're talking about how Bruno feels some responsibility to lead them even if it's only in subtle ways--well. Stop it, for fuck's sake, since it's led to this. And from what vague details Abbacchio picked up from Izabel just earlier tonight, he's starting to think,] Giorno can't get his act together because you're letting him let you do his job for him.
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Saying it himself is the point. Abbacchio shifts his weight and leans back against the railing as he listens in silence, and he thinks it's lucky, in a backwards way, that it's him standing here instead of one of the others. Abbacchio already knows their family is a mess, even if he's arrived at the right conclusion in the wrong way.
And more importantly--Abbacchio isn't going to apologize or try to defend them. They've all done it, so why act otherwise now? He shrugs, hands palm-up, shaking his head.]
We're a pack of bastards with bad habits-- that's what we've always been. You're not wrong about us. But what you've always done doesn't apply anymore because you died and now things have to change, if you'd actually let them. How the hell can you tell me things aren't the way they were and then insist on doing the same shit you always do?
[Does that make any fucking sense because please, enlighten him if it does. Everything is different now in ways no one, Bruno included, was prepared to deal with, and Bruno isn't excluded from the fallout. This adjustment period is difficult enough without adding that to the mix.
He shifts his shoulders again, tense; there's something else that bothers him about this insistence that Bruno has to keep them together-- that they're all woefully inadequate for the job of keeping Giorno together too. It's not petty, though. It's not. But he looks steadily straight ahead and away from Bruno anyway, as it's not the easiest point to bring up.]
You can't take care of things for us-- for Giorno and Mista if they ever get out of here and go home. And Mista won't do it, [a slight tilt of his head; yeah that's true, Mista is too up Giorno's ass all the time-] so sooner or later Giorno has to deal with his own shit without your help.
[Giorno taking charge in Napoli is not Abbacchio's primary concern, but if they're talking about how Bruno feels some responsibility to lead them even if it's only in subtle ways--well. Stop it, for fuck's sake, since it's led to this. And from what vague details Abbacchio picked up from Izabel just earlier tonight, he's starting to think,] Giorno can't get his act together because you're letting him let you do his job for him.
[That isn't moving forward.]