@smokeswirled said: ❛ they don’t deserve you— I don’t deserve you. but at least i’m aware of it. ❜
𝐢𝐭 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐚𝐬 𝐧𝐨 𝐬𝐮𝐫𝐩𝐫𝐢𝐬𝐞 for percy to self-deprecate. he’s always been especially good at doing that –– somehow battling a royal sense of privilege with a kind of self-hatred like she’d never seen before. percy is complicated like that –– his damage is familiar only in that the sharp edges feel a lot like hers some days. and keyleth... all she wants is for them to collide until they’re both bloody.
she doesn’t want to fix percy. she just wants him to like himself a little more. ❛ shut up, percy, ❜ keyleth bursts out. her face is flushed –– this time from frustration. ❛ that’s not true. you know that’s not true. ❜ and hell, even if it was... which it isn’t... ❛ I don’t care, okay? I don’t care if you do or don’t deserve me –– you have me. ❜ her face crumples.
❛ I don’t want a martyr, percy. I want you. ❜