It actually raises her hopes to hear that he was a mess. Maybe... okay that probably makes her a bad person, Zari thinks. She wants desperately to be valued by Nate. She knows the rest is an impossible wish. Zari wouldn't take back her sacrifice for anything. She knows she is fortunate to have this much: a relationship with Behrad and her other self; getting to see her friends again. She could have slipped away into the ether the way her Behrad seems to have. She would have accepted that fate to atone for her perceived failures.
What she can't abide by is hearing anyone much less this version of her parents not value her other self. She stops eating long enough to do a double-take. That has to be the most insane thing she's ever heard. She found out in a happier life she'd be an influencer that John Constantine is totally fixated on.
"Hang on... they get pretty-princess-slash-genius Zari and they're still not happy?" She snorts at how ridiculous that is. Not that her parents approved of how Behrad and Zari fought back against their oppressors, but she would never say her parents weren't their biggest fans or even think it. Zari knows she gave Maman especially a hard time about preserving their faith and culture and still wouldn't go there. It's disappointing as it is expected. People take their loved ones for granted when they're not at risk of getting shot dead or stolen away to be tortured on daily basis.
She reaches out to pat her other self's arm. "Well I'm happy. I think it's cool the way you make all that stuff and help people feel good about themselves." She may not get Z's whole deal, but she admires it.
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What she can't abide by is hearing anyone much less this version of her parents not value her other self. She stops eating long enough to do a double-take. That has to be the most insane thing she's ever heard. She found out in a happier life she'd be an influencer that John Constantine is totally fixated on.
"Hang on... they get pretty-princess-slash-genius Zari and they're still not happy?" She snorts at how ridiculous that is. Not that her parents approved of how Behrad and Zari fought back against their oppressors, but she would never say her parents weren't their biggest fans or even think it. Zari knows she gave Maman especially a hard time about preserving their faith and culture and still wouldn't go there. It's disappointing as it is expected. People take their loved ones for granted when they're not at risk of getting shot dead or stolen away to be tortured on daily basis.
She reaches out to pat her other self's arm. "Well I'm happy. I think it's cool the way you make all that stuff and help people feel good about themselves." She may not get Z's whole deal, but she admires it.