especially since Joker's main issue has been the doubting of anything done being real but this is very real--or feels very real in any case and it takes him a moment to recovery himself after getting a bit overwhelmed by those emotions, listening as Mars walks through the mess
and when he's done... Joker just exhales roughly.]
Then just tell him that.
[probably saying it a bit more roughly than he needs to but also--dragging a hand across his face because it's a lot and thinking is hard but...]
Head off the problem of the kneejerk reaction by at least arming him with the knowledge that you can and might have that sort of reaction to shove everyone away in a bid of some... misguided self-preservation?
He can't do anything to help you if you don't let him.
I know I'm making it sound easy by saying "just tell him what you told me" because there are some things... other people might not get. But you've seen Lily's memories, right? You know he has some experience with disassociating with other people. So... trust him to understand the underlying problem.
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especially since Joker's main issue has been the doubting of anything done being real but this is very real--or feels very real in any case and it takes him a moment to recovery himself after getting a bit overwhelmed by those emotions, listening as Mars walks through the mess
and when he's done... Joker just exhales roughly.]
Then just tell him that.
[probably saying it a bit more roughly than he needs to but also--dragging a hand across his face because it's a lot and thinking is hard but...]
Head off the problem of the kneejerk reaction by at least arming him with the knowledge that you can and might have that sort of reaction to shove everyone away in a bid of some... misguided self-preservation?
He can't do anything to help you if you don't let him.
I know I'm making it sound easy by saying "just tell him what you told me" because there are some things... other people might not get. But you've seen Lily's memories, right? You know he has some experience with disassociating with other people. So... trust him to understand the underlying problem.