#lloyd 03

[fatedatonement]

@twohundredpower​

‘Oh, Regal! This is the boy you were telling me about?’ Regal smiles softly as Alicia looks this way and that, holding onto his arm as she asks questions. Her curiosity and joy for life had always been one of the things he admired most about her-- it’s nice to be able to experience it again, if only for a little while.

“Yes,” he nods. “Lloyd, I’d like to formally introduce you to Alicia. She--” Before he can finish the sentence, Alicia has run to shake Lloyd’s hand-- as quiet as Regal tends to be, it seems she makes up the energy tenfold.

‘It’s very nice to meet you, Lloyd! I heard from Regal that you’re a friend of Presea’s as well. Thank you for looking out for them... it makes me really happy to know they have people who care so much in their lives.”

[spiderstaff]

@twohundredpower​

Kay’s heart is beating loud in her chest despite the silence in the hallway. She thinks she might have screamed when she first saw him, but now as he’s standing over her, it’s silent.

The fact that he isn’t saying anything is making this worse, because she can hear his voice in her head, memory as clear as the day she last saw him. He looms over her, and she’s backed against the wall, too afraid to even move.

The resemblance is uncanny between them, even if this monster-version is a bit distorted. But the long grey ears, the same white hair and silver eyes... it’s almost like she’s looking into her own eyes. He advances, wielding the staff she’d dropped (it’s his staff anyway, she thinks-- he looks better with it. It’s built for someone as tall as him.) She can almost hear it, the way he’d accuse her of stealing it, of running off with what’s his, and...

She cowers, too scared to even run like she always does. Over the sound of her heartbeat, she hears footsteps from down the hall. Maybe someone had heard her yell...?

“I-it’s OK, don’t come any closer!” She cautions. “It’s me he wants. I don’t want you to get hurt.”

[iniquitousideals]

@twohundredpower​

He had vanished. Again. Suddenly blipped away from this new, unfamiliar world. And just as quickly, he had been back. And yet it had felt like ages. Thinking he would be away forever. Thinking he would never see any of the others again, and that he would have to face his fate in their own world. He had vanished, and just when he was making amends, and when he was forming bonds with those he would never have expected, even if... there was a part of him that truly wanted it. 

Lloyd was one of those people. He had considered Lloyd to be a good person, but back in their world, there was no way they could truly be friends. Their paths didn’t line up. They were enemies. Even if Lloyd’s group provided a sense of comfort for him, he wished to reach his end goal no matter what. He wished to complete what he had started. Besides, after everything that happened, he had grown tired of living... he had been ready to go. To finally rest. Was that wrong to admit? 

Crossing paths with the young idealist again, Mithos was unsure what to say. He had extended a hand to him shortly before his disappearance. He hadn’t been prepared for such a thing. In some way, it made him nervous. For there to be such a change. To be truly, wholly accepted after so long, despite his actions. Not his facade, but -- just him. 

“Lloyd? About what you said before, I would ... like to thank you.”

“This change is sudden and strange, but I do think it would be better for us to at least consider one another allies... to treat one another as acquaintances.... for Genis, too.”  

“I know you agree. You came to a similar conclusion before. I’m sorry for being difficult, it’s just...”

It was hard to allow himself to really feel. To truly trust in another person. 

“... nevermind.”