[The last time Joker had seen his sister before their reunion on the Thor had been before he'd gone to war-- and not just any war, but a galaxy-wide struggle between every organic race and an incomprehensible threat. Second-hand, he'd seen things that would have given anyone nightmares; husks, colonists being melted into genetic slurry, the fall of Thessia. People died, sometimes right in front of him. Sometimes because of him.]
[The Purists hadn't had to do anything. The Reapers had already done more than enough.]
[He never let on that anything was wrong, though; he was the pilot. They needed him to be in top form at all times, no matter what, and he didn't disappoint. And if it meant having to bottle up his trauma until it was contents under high pressure, then that's what he would do.]
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[The last time Joker had seen his sister before their reunion on the Thor had been before he'd gone to war-- and not just any war, but a galaxy-wide struggle between every organic race and an incomprehensible threat. Second-hand, he'd seen things that would have given anyone nightmares; husks, colonists being melted into genetic slurry, the fall of Thessia. People died, sometimes right in front of him. Sometimes because of him.]
[The Purists hadn't had to do anything. The Reapers had already done more than enough.]
[He never let on that anything was wrong, though; he was the pilot. They needed him to be in top form at all times, no matter what, and he didn't disappoint. And if it meant having to bottle up his trauma until it was contents under high pressure, then that's what he would do.]