[The split difference between where Chris is joking and when he's being serious is abrupt. His eyes harden, and he starts to look like it really had been a year since he's been on the Barge.
Because Vesper's right; it is a coping mechanism. On the Barge, people come back and are okay again. He's missed that, where people can fight and it seems like playing around because the Barge always puts you back together again. That doesn't happen in the world he'd just escaped.]
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Because Vesper's right; it is a coping mechanism. On the Barge, people come back and are okay again. He's missed that, where people can fight and it seems like playing around because the Barge always puts you back together again. That doesn't happen in the world he'd just escaped.]
Go fuck yourself.