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gotmilfs2024-04-01 07:17 am
potatomance) wrote in gotmilfs2024-04-01 07:17 am
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WEEK THREE MINGLE
ᯓ⭐ WEEK THREE MINGLE
Happy third week, lovebirds! Here's to hoping you're riding high on the wave of success of one whole pair being correct! Surely you must have an idea by now how to win this thing!
Probably?
The good news is that you're not going to have to find yourselves in any weird clothes this time around, except maybe that just leads to a strange sense of foreboding for a future scenario...? Who knows. You can't quite brace yourself for it this time.
But don't worry, it's not like there's nothing happening. On the contrary!
For the entirety of this week, you'll find yourself feeling... clingy. It's going to start feeling very strange if you're not leaning on someone, holding their hand, cuddling with them, sitting in their lap, stealing a kiss, or engaging in some other form of affectionate physical contact. And if it's someone you're already feeling fond of OR someone you actually can't stand, guess what?
That feeling is doubled!
You may realize this is an unusual feeling, but so what? Trying to ignore it is only going to make it feel stronger and do you really want to make yourselves feel miserable?
Shut up, masochists.
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Hey. Got a sec?
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[ Hi there, Lucifer! ]
By all means.
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Can you tell me some more about what you saw in Maruki's memory? And why it makes you so upset?
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She glances over at Maruki before answering. ]
One saw him counseling an adolescent girl. Her sister had recently died--saving her, if one remembers correctly--and she was beside herself. After she confessed that she had wished that she had died in place of her sister, Maruki did... something... and suddenly the girl believed she was her late sister. It was as if no part of her remained.
[ Even describing it has her incensed, but she forces herself to keep cool long enough to answer the second question. For Lucifer's sake--he seems to be asking from a genuine place. ]
She went to him in a vulnerable state, and he took advantage of that. One supposes watching that unfold struck a nerve. The girl could have easily been one of the many girls I've taken in and mentored over the centuries. Girls I've loved dearly, all with their own struggles and insecurities.
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[ He's quiet for a moment, and shifts to take both of her hands in his. ]
Whatever might have happened, I don't believe Maruki is a bad person. He's simply... a person. One who saw the suffering in the world, in the people that he loved, and all he wanted was to make that pain go away by whatever means he could.
I'm not going to stand here and tell you that what he did was right. It wasn't. He knows that now. That's the thing about humanity. They're all flawed, aren't they? That's what makes them beautiful.
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[ Damn you and your sympathetic logic, Lucifer.
He's right. And she hates that he's right. After a long pause, she sighs. ]
One cannot promise to let one's personal feelings go so easily. But on a grander scale... one acknowledges that you're correct and will adjust one's behavior accordingly.
[ That is to say: she'll drop it. ]
Despite the devastation he caused, he did have good intentions. [ The road to the abyss is often paved with those, she's heard. ] And he is contrite.
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[ He gives her hands a squeeze, looking over at wherever Maruki is getting ready to ruin Marty McBrenner's whole career. (No.) ]
I saw the first time he used that power, on the woman he loved. He took the pain of her parents' murder away from her, but he took himself away from her, too. She forgot all about him. He bore that heartbreak alone, thinking he was going to make the world a better place.
Maybe I'm a little sympathetic because my own good intentions put pain and evil into the world in the first place. I can't say I wouldn't have done what he did, if given the chance.
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It must have been devastating for him. And she didn't even really give him the chance to say anything about that. ]
One was not aware.
[ Her voice is softer, although her thought process is not entirely gentle. It's karmic, in a way; he's been suffering the punishment for his sins long before he actually committed any. His world functions as it should.
The only difference is that she doesn't really feel any satisfaction in that realization anymore. Just a sense that things will work out as they need to. ]
One does not know much of your history, one must admit. But one trusts that your sympathy is warranted.