Who "acts out" the verb here?


<https://i.imgur.com/3cb9EjH.png>

Found it while browsing fan forums on Nier automata.

I'm not sure what the second paragraph means here? It looks like the speaker
cuts himself off. Who does the action there?

> それを無視して... 大切にしようとしてくる

I'm not sure if this is actual dialogue from the game.




The sentence in question roughly means:

> それを無視して... 大切にしようとしてくる  
>  Ignoring it (="the fact that I have an ego and real feelings"), [someone]
> tries to (come to me and) treasure me ( _or_ take care of me).

[大切にする](https://jisho.org/word/%E5%A4%A7%E5%88%87%E3%81%AB%E3%81%99%E3%82%8B)
is a set phrase meaning "to treasure" or "to take good care". Here,
[(-て)くる](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/676/5010) is a subsidiary verb
that describes someone/something coming to the speaker, either physically or
psychologically. Since the speaker (僕) is saying してくる instead of してくれる, we can
tell he is somehow annoyed by how he is treated.

* * *

The characters in this picture ([Ernst](https://nier.fandom.com/wiki/Ernst)
and [2B](https://nier.fandom.com/wiki/YoRHa_No.2_Type_B)) use first-person
pronouns other than 僕, so the text is about someone else who uses 僕. I think
this text is written from the standpoint of
[9S](https://nier.fandom.com/wiki/YoRHa_No.9_Type_S), another android
protagonist of the game who calls himself 僕. He was [at this
scene](https://youtu.be/Fzsz8a0DrHE?t=405), too. The subject of 無視する and 大切にする
is not specified in the text, but it's probably 2B, if I remember their
relationship correctly. All in all, the implication of the whole sentence is
something like "She ignores my love, and treats me like an object/kid to be
protected rather than a partner of equal status".




The sentence in question roughly means:

> それを無視して... 大切にしようとしてくる  
>  Ignoring it (="the fact that I have an ego and real feelings"), [someone]
> tries to (come to me and) treasure me ( _or_ take care of me).

[大切にする](https://jisho.org/word/%E5%A4%A7%E5%88%87%E3%81%AB%E3%81%99%E3%82%8B)
is a set phrase meaning "to treasure" or "to take good care". Here,
[(-て)くる](https://japanese.stackexchange.com/q/676/5010) is a subsidiary verb
that describes someone/something coming to the speaker, either physically or
psychologically. Since the speaker (僕) is saying してくる instead of してくれる, we can
tell he is somehow annoyed by how he is treated.

* * *

The characters in this picture ([Ernst](https://nier.fandom.com/wiki/Ernst)
and [2B](https://nier.fandom.com/wiki/YoRHa_No.2_Type_B)) use first-person
pronouns other than 僕, so the text is about someone else who uses 僕. I think
this text is written from the standpoint of
[9S](https://nier.fandom.com/wiki/YoRHa_No.9_Type_S), another android
protagonist of the game who calls himself 僕. He was [at this
scene](https://youtu.be/Fzsz8a0DrHE?t=405), too. The subject of 無視する and 大切にする
is not specified in the text, but it's probably 2B, if I remember their
relationship correctly. All in all, the implication of the whole sentence is
something like "She ignores my love, and treats me like an object/kid to be
protected rather than a partner of equal status".

