Letter
@urushiol and @breederethan writes: Your muse has to share something that’s hard for them to talk about. What is the biggest thing they don’t want to say aloud/admit? What makes it hard for them to say it?
That they need help. The both of them.
Damian grew up proud and independent. A strong boy bred to be resilient, while Hikari simply had to be. What they would ask for help in regards to does, of course, differ, but the sentiment is still the same; it’s horribly difficult to get help if you aren’t ready to take it. Damian is, of course, still proud and independent. And it is to his detriment. Sure, in a way its brought him far enough to where he walked away from his crimes fairly unscathed – he got lucky, luckier than he deserved, but now he has to tackle that fact on his own. He’s lost a part of his independence when he lost his left forearm. He’s lost his pride when he was stripped of his given name.
That same pride stops him from moving forward. He knows that he did a lot of wrongs, yet he doesn’t know how to undo them or how to behave to not do them again. For if he did wrong when he tried to do right before, then what would be different if he tried now?
Hikari… Well, in a sense it’s much simpler with her. All she would have to do would be to stop fighting against the help she’s given. To stop fighting her mother, herself and those who care about her. Behaving like a dead girl won’t bring her back in time, after all, and she will have to realize that eventually. But, for now? She would rather let the wound on her shoulder fester and rot.
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