▰▰▰▰▰▰▰ @13fcked 𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭 ﹕ ❛ you’re looking at me but you’re not seeing me. do you know how that feels ? just see me. please. ❜ from adrien.
adrien’s question strikes her unexpectedly , like lightning. it stuns her for a moment , because she does know how that feels. empathy stirs within in the demon uncomfortably , because she wants to remain apathetic to the emotions he is displaying. she doesn’t know what to do with them. but she does know that being looked at and not actually being seen feels helpless. so many men have looked upon nepharia with a sadistic hunger while she pleaded and begged , but she was never heard. she was never seen as anything more than something to be used and discarded.
and maybe now that is why her eyes soften , and she slowly closes the space between the two of them. a rare moment of mortal empathy illuminating the darkness of the abyss in her blackened soul , as she raises her arms to cup his beautiful face within her hands. pale eyes find his gaze , a thumb lovingly smoothing over his cheek , ❛ i see you , ❜ she tells him , brows knitting together slightly. little does he know , she is desperate for the same reassurance , ❛ do you see me ? ❜










