[Jack never wanted to put anyone in that kind of position. They've all made their choices, sure, but he can't help but feel like the one who spurred them to that in the first place. It's very silly, to think things like "I wish I'd been less inspirational", but that's what it is, isn't it? He'd affected them all irrevocably, to the point where they want to follow him into hell without a second thought.
He doesn't flinch when Venom closes some of the distance. Jack isn't looking at him anyway, staring out over the yard and maybe trying to recapture some kind of nebulous pre-Crisis, pre-Overwatch time, when none of this would have mattered.]
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He doesn't flinch when Venom closes some of the distance. Jack isn't looking at him anyway, staring out over the yard and maybe trying to recapture some kind of nebulous pre-Crisis, pre-Overwatch time, when none of this would have mattered.]
I didn't want this for them.
[For any of them. Even in death, he failed.]