C'mon, Mr. Salieri, there's no better time than the present! If you wait, Discord might meet someone else and you two will spend the rest of your lives wondering about the "what ifs"! I don't think I could forgive myself if I let that happen!

[He does, distantly, also realize that there is a chance that one of them could die before they get a chance to hook up. But he refuses to verbalize or even acknowledge it.

He doesn't want to think about how each interaction with his friends could be his last.]