Bruce didn't mind black humor. He took it for what it was. "Yeah, we had no idea what to do next. We mostly were just all standing there, dealing with the losses, wondering what to do next. And now I'm here." To process grief on that level was probably impossible. Once they got back to civilization, they would just see constant devastation, and struggle for the world to right itself. If it could. If this wasn't the start of a civil breakdown and people acting their worst in desperation.
He nodded, feeling emotion well up in his stomach, in his throat, making it tighten. He had so much less to lose than the others, but Bruce was someone whose purpose used to be to better humanity through scientific discovery. So he cared, every life lost was too high a price. "It was. He won. We usually do manage to stop the bad guy. Not perfectly, loss is always a part, small failures that still matter, and I think we believed we still had a chance." Against all odds. They won against bad odds before. It was bound for their luck to run out.
"I don't know yet, if his snap was for all life in the universe, or sentient beings. Did it wipe out half of the animals, half of the plants? If so, more people will die, resources aren't infinity. And with the population cut in half, that half could be the people who make the world function." Bruce shook his head, rubbing fingers through short hair. "How he thought this was helping just goes to show his madness, and his inability to understand the consequences. He left planets and that was it."
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He nodded, feeling emotion well up in his stomach, in his throat, making it tighten. He had so much less to lose than the others, but Bruce was someone whose purpose used to be to better humanity through scientific discovery. So he cared, every life lost was too high a price. "It was. He won. We usually do manage to stop the bad guy. Not perfectly, loss is always a part, small failures that still matter, and I think we believed we still had a chance." Against all odds. They won against bad odds before. It was bound for their luck to run out.
"I don't know yet, if his snap was for all life in the universe, or sentient beings. Did it wipe out half of the animals, half of the plants? If so, more people will die, resources aren't infinity. And with the population cut in half, that half could be the people who make the world function." Bruce shook his head, rubbing fingers through short hair. "How he thought this was helping just goes to show his madness, and his inability to understand the consequences. He left planets and that was it."