[What Lucilius doesn’t understand is that humans have emotions. Humans care about things. And that’s why they include things that seem frivolous in their stories - because those things matter to them.]
[Or, at least, that’s why Temple insists on including all those “frivolous” details in his.]
Well, it started a long time ago, in Desert Gulch, with me and Biff, and the rest of the Blues and Reds. Back when we had no idea of the horrible truth of Project Freelancer...
[Temple then goes on to tell of how Biff had asked Temple to shoot him in the pinky finger to help him return to Georgina, and how, the day after, Freelancer Agents Carolina and Tex had arrived. And of how Temple had tried to shoot Biff, tried to do what Biff had asked of him, but failed.]
[And of how Tex and Carolina had accidentally speared Biff through with a flagpole right after, causing his death. How he and his team and Biff’s had mourned him.]
[How they’d went searching for the truth of Project Freelancer and found it. How he vowed revenge and got himself an army.]
[How he froze Freelancers to death in their armour and raided UNSC facilities.]
[How the Reds and Blues - a different group than the Blues and Reds - had initially trusted him and then betrayed him.]
[How they claimed Loco’s machine would destroy the Earth.]
[And then, finally, how the Reds and Blues had stopped him, and got him imprisoned.]
[He tells the story with passion and drama and pretentiousness, making an art out of it. Because it matters to him and he refuses to skimp on it, to tell Lucilius why he was in jail without explaining the deeper why of it too.]
[His story, he believes, needs to be told, needs to be heard, needs to be known, needs to be acknowledged.]
[And he can’t control who lives or who dies - which is unfortunate for Biff and fortunate for the Freelancers - but he sure as hell can try to take control of telling his - and Biff’s - story.]
temple: king of the tl;dr monologue, which i have saved you - and myself - from with a summary
[Or, at least, that’s why Temple insists on including all those “frivolous” details in his.]
Well, it started a long time ago, in Desert Gulch, with me and Biff, and the rest of the Blues and Reds. Back when we had no idea of the horrible truth of Project Freelancer...
[Temple then goes on to tell of how Biff had asked Temple to shoot him in the pinky finger to help him return to Georgina, and how, the day after, Freelancer Agents Carolina and Tex had arrived. And of how Temple had tried to shoot Biff, tried to do what Biff had asked of him, but failed.]
[And of how Tex and Carolina had accidentally speared Biff through with a flagpole right after, causing his death. How he and his team and Biff’s had mourned him.]
[How they’d went searching for the truth of Project Freelancer and found it. How he vowed revenge and got himself an army.]
[How he froze Freelancers to death in their armour and raided UNSC facilities.]
[How the Reds and Blues - a different group than the Blues and Reds - had initially trusted him and then betrayed him.]
[How they claimed Loco’s machine would destroy the Earth.]
[And then, finally, how the Reds and Blues had stopped him, and got him imprisoned.]
[He tells the story with passion and drama and pretentiousness, making an art out of it. Because it matters to him and he refuses to skimp on it, to tell Lucilius why he was in jail without explaining the deeper why of it too.]
[His story, he believes, needs to be told, needs to be heard, needs to be known, needs to be acknowledged.]
[And he can’t control who lives or who dies - which is unfortunate for Biff and fortunate for the Freelancers - but he sure as hell can try to take control of telling his - and Biff’s - story.]