Bastion x apathetic!reader
It’s tragic, isn’t it? After meeting countless people, traveling across countless places and experiencing all the world could offer, you thought there was nothing in this existence that could paint your world another color than gray.
If everything was the same, it lost all the meaning. If there was no meaning, what was the purpose of anything?
So why did your gaze linger on him? What was so different about him?
Maybe it was the look in his eyes as he gazed back at you. The same look you saw in your reflection. The emotionless eyes of someone who watched the people wander through life looking for something they didn’t know if it even existed at all.
Maybe it was the smile he gave you in acknowledgement, as you also accepted the absurdity in life when everyone else turned a blind eye in a futile attempt to explain their existence. When others believed their dreams would come true, you grew tired of lying to yourself.
Maybe it was the fact that he was the only one who approached you and stayed when others walked away. When they talked about trivial things, pretended to be someone they weren’t, feigned interest to gain something in return… he was the only one who was simply himself.
Maybe he knew you would see through him just like he saw through you. After years and years of disappointments, you became a mirror reflecting the emotions of the people in front of you. A chameleon of interests of the person you were talking to. An echo of opinions of the group you happen to be a part of. Sometimes it got difficult to discern between the emotions or thoughts of the people around you and your own. You wondered just who you were anymore, thought if there was something wrong with you. Were you broken when others were whole?
But just as he was unapologetically himself, you responded in kind. For the first time in your life, you could be yourself with no hint of a mask.
He reached out for you when you long since lost the reason for reaching out for others. You took his hand and you never left his side since. Only by his side did you finally understand what it meant to be truly alive…
You realized too late what new color he brought into your world. Black. Pitch black like the abyss he was pulling you into. Like the darkness awaiting you down the road to hell with him.
You smirked, an eerie serenity reflected in your eyes as he spoke with certainty of his grand goal for the future of mankind. You didn’t share the same perspective as him on this matter nor did you agree with his actions, but you loved him too much to even think of leaving him. Not that he’d let you, but you didn’t mind it.
You made peace with whatever fate held for you and him, be it heaven or hell. After all, the moment your eyes met, you’ve already been damned.
…but if you weren’t afraid to look truth in the eye, you would have known long ago that you were damned before you even met him. And he knew it.
That’s why when you gazed into an abyss, the abyss gazed back into you. You were already an abyss in the making and he’d make sure you knew that too.