psychictracing:
Doom Bringer doesn’t even pay any mind to the tone Paradox suddenly adopts. These two never did truly get along, despite how they seem the most amiable among the Adds.
How truly sad it must be, to be the last one to cling to their original goal. To constantly put himself through such a torture. And what more torture would it be to finally rest and give up? Truly, no matter what Paradox does or doesn’t do, he’s fucked. To be a slave of time himself.. To be a slave to himself-
“The only slave I see is you, who so proudly wears your iron collar. Hope time and space is a much more benevolent master than any of our previous.”
But to remove his collar would to give him no purpose whatsoever.
❖ - Gloved fingers come to grasp around his neck, feeling the collar that resided there locked in place. He quieted, half-lidded gaze lowering to the ground below. None of it mattered; whether or not he was a slave to time and space itself, it didn’t matter. No matter how it felt to fail again and again, he had no choice but to persist. To go back was the only option, and the option Doom Bringer had chosen was an unthinkable one. Without this reason for continuing on, there was no further reason to exist at all.
How is it, in spite of all things, he still couldn’t replicate what Dynamo had done? Even becoming part of time-space itself, he was still yet unable to reach his destination to true happiness.
“...There's no other choice. Do you think mother will ever forgive us, for what we’ve done to ourselves?”
After everything. After everything. When he finds her at long last, maybe.... He can truly put himself to rest. Permanently, this time. Nothing would ever be able to take the final moments of contentedness from him then.
