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Chapitre 210 - The Words One Would Like To Know
FLASHBACK TO PIFFLE ARE YOU KIDDING ME
PERFECT 10/10
GIVE ME EVERYTHING I COULD EVER WANT AT THE SADDEST POSSIBLE MOMENT
SYAORAN CONTINUE TO REMINISCE THROUGH HIS HAPPY MEMORIES THROUGH THE VARIOUS ARCS IN TSUBASA
AND HERE WE HAVE HIM BONDING WITH FAI AS THEY SERVE LUNCH
Specifically when they first meet Tomoyo
And SPECIFICALLY AFTER THAT ONE CONVERSATION FAI MENTIONED JUST A FEW CHAPTERS AGO, WHERE FAI HAD A GENTLE TALK WITH HIM ABOUT NOT BLAMING YOURSELF FOR EVERYTHING AND JUST DOING WHAT YOU CAN
HOW I NEVER THOUGHT ABOUT THE FACT THAT THIS WOULD BE THEIR LAST BIG 1on1 BONDING MOMENT BEFORE SYAORAN’S SOUL WARRANTY RAN OUT
AND FROM THE WAY THINGS ARE GOING THEIR LAST BIG BONDING MOMENT EVER
AHHHHHH I am compacting myself into a cereal box of emotion
OK OK OK LIKE LAST TIME Syaoran’s outfit matches the same colours in the same locations as Fai, and both have matching expressions as they look toward centrepage
Oh the splash text! What’s it say.
The bitterness, the pain,
That person changed it all,
Into kindness
YUP SENDING MYSELF IN A CEREAL BOX TO MOON
THE THINGS SYAORAN SAW AS POSITIVE TRAITS IN HIS DADS
THE WAY HE LOOKED UP TO THEM AND LEARNED HOW TO BE LIKE THEM
How Kurogane’s reliance on strength and Fai’s outward positivity were a type of trauma response, a flaw they had to grow around and overcome, BUT THEY WEREN’T NEGATIVE TRAITS TO SYAORAN. HE LIKED THEM AS PEOPLE THE WHOLE TIME.
AND THEY JUST WATCHED HIM GET STABBED.
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If LOTF was a reality TV show 5
*Before Jack's feast and the rain storm*
~Behind the scenes~
Producer: Okay, so today we're gonna flim the feast tonight since it's gonna rain and all
Ralph: Can we actually reschedule?
Producer: Why Ralph?
Ralph: Because I'm actually having a really good hair day and I don't want the wind and rain to mess it up
Producer: We're gonna be filming this at night
Ralph: I don't see your point
Jack: THIS IS THE THIRD TIME YOUVE POSTPONED MY FEAST BECAUSE OF YOUR STUPID HAIR
Ralph: ITS NOT MY FAULT YOURE JUST JEALOUS THAT MY HAIR IS BETTER THAN YOURS
Jack: WHAT-
Simon: Can we just please get my last scene done and over with?
Piggy: Simon-
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for lamplight treebark reqs perhaps a little bit of ren coping with and/or coming to terms with that the fact that his love for his paladin is not the expected sort of love that a god would feel for their follower. the differences between the love of a deity and a worshipper and the far more personal, mortal way he loves martyn, beyond his oath and devotion
ty for sending me a lamplight treebark req. this is quite short and only… sorta addresses what you said, but i present it to you nonetheless
The thing about Ren is he wasn’t meant to be a god.
Ren had been born mortal, and though he hadn’t died one, his heart hasn’t changed.
Back during Ren’s prime, Ren had only built a single temple, just so his people knew where to find him. He hadn’t bothered with titles, either—Dogwarts had called him Ren, and his followers had called on him to fix broken fences and enchant children’s toys.
Ren had been a neighbor long before he’d been a god, and he’d preferred it that way. Even as the people he grew up alongside grew old without him, even when the children he watched play became adults, even when those adults introduced him to children of their own.
The first person to call him My Lord is his paladin, and this is only because Ren can’t tell the man his real name.
Unlike most of Ren’s people, Martyn thinks of Ren first and foremost as a god.
He isn’t devout, not really, but Martyn is the first to try holy devotion. He promises offerings from his meals, as transparent as he is with holding back the best for himself. He offers conversation he calls prayer, and it means everything to a lonely flame. He offers an oath, and with it Ren has purpose in a world bereft of the thing he lived and died for.
Martyn believes himself to be paladin to the God of Dogwarts, the once-city’s protector and patron. There are plenty of reasons which Ren thinks him incorrect, but they boil down to a difference in domain.
Ren has not been God of Dogwarts since he lost it—For twenty years, Ren has not been anything at all. Not until a soon-to-be paladin found his tomb and dragged him back from his could-not-be death.
Ren has remade himself once, a god for a city abandoned. He remade himself again, flame without light. Martyn remakes him a third time—revives him, gives him purpose.
These days, Ren fancies himself God of Martyn.
And, well. Ren may be a god, but his heart is still the same as when it was mortal. The blood he bleeds is not ichor, and it runs red as anything that dies—or it used to, anyway, back when he had blood to shed.
Martyn may love Ren as a god, but Ren loves him the only way Ren’s ever known how—like a mortal. Ren has never wanted for offerings or temples or worship. What Ren’s human heart wants from Martyn is simply to stay at his side.
Still. Ren will be his god, as long as Ren can be his.
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