Anonymous hailed: Khan, do you ever regret not being able to die when you should have? Being unmade and stitched back together, forced to be a weapon, and then condemned when you wanted to find peace. Have you ever thought that your time has long since passed?
his initial response is mere silence, but that silence speaks volumes. the weight of it is immeasurable. does he regret it?
“ of course i regret it, ” he says, brow furrowed as he gazes down at his hands. “ every day, in the back of my mind. it may not be conscious, but there is always a part of me that regrets not dying when i was eleven-years-old.
“ after all, that’s when it began. the accident that cost me my leg is what caused my parents to cast me out. i was no longer of use to them if i could not work, so they left me on the streets to fend for myself. & then section 31 found me.
“ were it not for that accident, i would never have been augmented. i would never have suffered the indescribable torture they inflicted upon me. i would not be HERE, shackled like an animal, kept alive but not living. if i had died that day, it would have saved me lifetimes of suffering that i endured . . . ”
he trails off & exhales a long breath before shutting his eyes. “ however, in another sense, i don’t regret it. i don’t regret it one bit. ”
eyes opening once more, he lifts his gaze, eyes filled with anger & hatred. “ augments would always come to be, regardless of if i’d died. section 31 had been working on augmentation long before i was born. my DEATH would have meant nothing, but my LIFE was instrumental in freeing those like me. those who suffered the same fate as me. that, i will never regret. ”
