📹 - use a line from my favorite movie as a starter - heroantics
❝ Whatever happens tomorrow you must promise me one thing. That you will stay who you are. Not a perfect soldier, but a good man. ❞ (Captain America: The First Avenger)
“I don’t know much about bein’ at war, but I’ve been through enough battles to think I’ve got a good idea of what it’s like,” Rick nodded, playing around with the tightness of his holster. Once he was satisfied with it’s placement and durability, he quit adjusting it. He turned his head to the blue-haired male, who had been listening to his words. “It ain’t easy.”
The sheriff slid his BB gun into the holster carefully, then changed his gaze to his hands. They were rough, calloused and covered in scars; it said a thousand words about Rick and his history. “I respect that you’ve come out of war as a nice guy. Not as a perfect soldier, but as a good man,” he said, looking up at Marth. He wished he could say the same about others. “That’s an important thing to hang on to.”
War. It was a topic that he'd known for quite sometime. Since the days of his youth, when there had been issues within his kingdom and the tiara upon his head had been passed down to him, he'd seen it before his very being. Quarrels were always a common issue, especially in the past, and the idea of man fighting man rather than taking his hand for peace so that all people could live in bliss, the solution always came to fighting. To slaying. To killing and destroying all those who didn't agree with a certain carriage upon life's ride. He, personally, had hands of his own stained with blood. Not so much with regret, but with pity. Pity that he had to draw a blade out in order to gain respect, to take back what was his and to save his kingdom.
Apparently, so did this man who was speaking to him. Though he wasn't the most intuitive person, not like some of his other comrades had been, by the way Rick looked upon the harshness of his flesh, his fingers, there was something going on. Something hidden in thought that was to be mulled over time and time again. It would be because of this observation the core of his eyes would actually meet the gaze given to him. And it would be out of respect he would flip his vision downwards ever so slightly.
❝ Do you not believe you are a good man as well? ❞

















