( it makes him flinch, a little wobbly on the corner of the rooftop as he looks towards rokkun like he's an idiot for that type of talk. komaeda isn't a guardian spirit, but he is hopeful about a lot of things, it's even harder to parse when he doesn't have the emotional capacity to put rokkun's emotion based dream into words.

maybe that's where they have difficulties, if he was by himself, and had no one, maybe if he didn't feel alone already, he could understand the more underlined aspects of it and the comfort. )

Letting yourself to despair would only make me dislike you, and it felt... like a hopeful circumstance...

( thinking about the darkness, he turns away from rokkun now as he sighs softly. )

Most places aren't so dark, but... in your case it started off like that... it must have been different, having no one... so... if I have to think about your experience...

( komaeda's experience is him adding in three other people, voices that stayed with him during the entire thing. that sets apart his mind from one thinking to another, he would mention that having people together in the darkness would be a hopeful endeavor. if he was alone and left to his own thoughts, if this was more of a nightmare than a dream... )

Is that why you're afraid of being close to others... because those lights betrayed you?

( they sure did lead the gang to a pit that they fell in, so it works... it works. thinking about komaeda is so smart and would understand so much symbolism whereas me is putting away my bible to end his religious era. )

For this session, you can call me Komaeda.

( he calls everyone by their first name, switch it up a little!! have a little fun... )