text; un: patriarch

[burninglight]

[After the fight with his brother had settled down, Ardyn went back to his room and shut the door; after an hour or so of pacing restlessly and accomplishing nothing, he settled on taking out his phone and making an ill-advised decision.]

[...Just as soon as he changed his username.]

Since there is likely no end in sight to 'this station needs more therapy than the multiverse can provide':

I know one can be furious with someone they care about and yet not detest them. Difficult, but not unthinkable. But is it possible to ever learn to stop hating someone, when that anger is justified yet supposedly built on the foundation of a misunderstanding?

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text; darkwings

[thoroff]

[Oh boy whatever could this be.]

The true question is not whether the possibility exists, I think, but whether the will to pursue it does.

[burninglight]

[eh, probably nothin']

I don't know yet.

[thoroff]

Neither I nor anyone else can provide the answer for you.

[burninglight]

I know.

I suppose I'm just hoping for advice. Something to at least point in the vague semblance of a direction.

[thoroff]

Alas, you're likely to have a hard time finding someone who isn't stumbling in the dark on this. Forgiveness, even acceptance, are never easy things, by their very nature.

[burninglight]

I suppose so. Still, I might guess some more well versed in forgiveness than I am, so I thought it at least worth asking.

[thoroff]

Of course. If I had any great insight to offer, I gladly would.

[Unfortunately, her canon point is from before half the game's antagonists turn up alive and get recruited into the army, so her experience in the matter is limited.]

[burninglight]

That's alright.

[...After a second, he switched the conversation to private and followed with:]

Sorry we snapped at you.

[thoroff]

Don't worry about that. I doubt I would have reacted much differently had our roles been reversed.

[burninglight]

Even so, you were just trying to help.

Were you really recording that or did I just imagine that part?

[thoroff]

[There's a slight delay before this response.]

I don't plan to share it with another soul - that's not my right - but yes, I was.

[burninglight]

sure why not

plenty of my issues have been filmed and made into record, i am far too tired to care at this point

[#fuckit]

[thoroff]

For what it's worth, the only situation in which I'd ever dig it out is if Izunia has the gall to claim that he doesn't need me worrying about him again.

[burninglight]

appreciated. doesn't really matter to me at this point, but the sentiment's a nice one regardless.