[ She can’t help it how her heart jumps at the tone in his voice alone. It makes her eyes well up with tears too. It’s a mirror in the sense that her heart always aches for others when they’re sad, but she would have started crying regardless. She wants to help him so deeply, but she’s also not sure if she can. That feels unfair too, because even if she’s a god of humanity, surely she should be able to help other gods that need it… Yet that’s a much harder thing to do.
(And in the sky above, a little cloud starts to gather. Don’t mind that.)
It’s partially to stop herself from truly blubbering despite herself, but she does close that little distance so that she can wrap her arms fully around him. She’d wanted to do this since they parted in that stupid park, but this is different now, something bigger. It’s more like when she’d protectively held him in The Last Dance—all warmth and affection, but wanting so deeply to be able to cut away his pain, no matter how hard it was. ]
I’m sorry— [ He hiccoughs, and it’s an apology that’s probably for her own tears just as much as she feels the sorrow for his circumstances. She feels bad for crying when it’s not her situation to mourn, but her empathy runs deep for those she cares about. ]
I want your world to be kinder to you!
[ She says it vehemently and almost childishly, but that’s what it comes down to, doesn’t it? It’s the sentiment that it always comes down to when she talks to people in Kenos, she feels like. She’d told Silco something similar, and he’d loathed it, but that didn’t change her convictions and hopes for people. She’s a god of good that will always want a kind, loving world for its people, no matter whether they’re a human or a god. And for all of the problems and rivalries of her own pantheon… It didn’t seem to be anything compared to his. ]
Even if you’ve done bad things… Even if your followers are no good now, I don’t— I don’t think you should be denied everything because of it. There’s good in you. You deserve all of that and more, I think.
[ She gives him a tighter squeeze, just on the verge of uncomfortable, but it’s brief just as she says: ]
I’d give so much to be able to help free you from all of that.
WAUGHS AGAIN?????????
(And in the sky above, a little cloud starts to gather. Don’t mind that.)
It’s partially to stop herself from truly blubbering despite herself, but she does close that little distance so that she can wrap her arms fully around him. She’d wanted to do this since they parted in that stupid park, but this is different now, something bigger. It’s more like when she’d protectively held him in The Last Dance—all warmth and affection, but wanting so deeply to be able to cut away his pain, no matter how hard it was. ]
I’m sorry— [ He hiccoughs, and it’s an apology that’s probably for her own tears just as much as she feels the sorrow for his circumstances. She feels bad for crying when it’s not her situation to mourn, but her empathy runs deep for those she cares about. ]
I want your world to be kinder to you!
[ She says it vehemently and almost childishly, but that’s what it comes down to, doesn’t it? It’s the sentiment that it always comes down to when she talks to people in Kenos, she feels like. She’d told Silco something similar, and he’d loathed it, but that didn’t change her convictions and hopes for people. She’s a god of good that will always want a kind, loving world for its people, no matter whether they’re a human or a god. And for all of the problems and rivalries of her own pantheon… It didn’t seem to be anything compared to his. ]
Even if you’ve done bad things… Even if your followers are no good now, I don’t— I don’t think you should be denied everything because of it. There’s good in you. You deserve all of that and more, I think.
[ She gives him a tighter squeeze, just on the verge of uncomfortable, but it’s brief just as she says: ]
I’d give so much to be able to help free you from all of that.