It's one of those realizations of just how little he's shared about himself. He doesn't discuss these things with anyone, save for Envy and Lust who understand. Even the two of them don't understand, aren't capable of understanding just how deep it goes. Envy was in deep with him but Greed had been the one forced to be on the outside for so long that it was maddening.
He had never been capable of returning such deep attachments, not normally. Those who had earned it were a select few, and one of them had been the one to betray him. He'll probably never entirely recover from it.
"I can't be," he said finally. "Not in the way you mean, I don't think. I already am in the way I see things. People I 'have' and people I 'don't have.'"
He's possessive, certainly, but it's not in the same way entirely, he doesn't think. He won't ever think of another person as a thing, not when he had spent nearly all of his life being treated as a thing, making him question whether or not he was a person at all.
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He had never been capable of returning such deep attachments, not normally. Those who had earned it were a select few, and one of them had been the one to betray him. He'll probably never entirely recover from it.
"I can't be," he said finally. "Not in the way you mean, I don't think. I already am in the way I see things. People I 'have' and people I 'don't have.'"
He's possessive, certainly, but it's not in the same way entirely, he doesn't think. He won't ever think of another person as a thing, not when he had spent nearly all of his life being treated as a thing, making him question whether or not he was a person at all.