[But... Elliot wants to know where he's going, that's why he wants Snake to ask, right? That makes sense.
"You have to ask if you want to go somewhere, okay? You can't go alone." He'd asked Joker why, then. Just like now, with the question in his eyes before it's on his lips.
"There are people out there who will mistreat you because you're different, Snake. Like the ringmaster we saved you from. But you can't tell who's nice and who's not. So just stick with us, stick with your family, okay?"
He hadn't left the boundaries of the circus once after that... not until-]
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"You have to ask if you want to go somewhere, okay? You can't go alone." He'd asked Joker why, then. Just like now, with the question in his eyes before it's on his lips.
"There are people out there who will mistreat you because you're different, Snake. Like the ringmaster we saved you from. But you can't tell who's nice and who's not. So just stick with us, stick with your family, okay?"
He hadn't left the boundaries of the circus once after that... not until-]