DRAMATIC AND PROTECTIVE / @liightaga / NO LONGER ACCEPTING ! "They're all afraid of me."
LINK DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO SAY . the concept of a beast born from the ' darkness ' of a heart was hard enough to wrap his head around . it sounded in some ways like the MIASMA that covered hyrule in patches , or the malice that swamped the divine beasts . evil and oppressive . nothing at all like sora , who smiled readily , and always had something fun up his sleeve .
NO , SORA WAS NOT EVIL . link had faced evil . he had stared it down while plunging his blade into the eyes of guardians . he had swallowed its STENCH while it fed on the rotted corpses of heroes . whatever sora thought of the darkness in his own heart , sora's RAGE and PAIN did not make him evil . it just made sora feel a little more human .
❝ . . . i'm . . . sorry that happened to you , ❞ link said finally , feeling around the syllables AWKWARDLY . he shifted his weight , laced his fingers together , and pulled his knee to his chest . ❝ but even if it did happen . . . you know it's — that's not who you really are , right ? ❞
SORA SHOULD KNOW THAT . or at least , link hoped he did . so often times , link felt as though they were cut from two different cloths . he couldn't always see things the way sora did . being around him was like basking in the sun sometimes . remnants of their cursed selves lingered in the back of link's mind , reminding link of all of the ways neither one of them were perfect . STILL . SORA HAD BROKEN FREE FIRST . and still , for once it seemed that link was the only one who could see the scope of this clearly .
❝ maybe there's a way to control it , instead of it controlling you . ❞














