The Difference Between You and Me
This is just a blurb for a story that I may never finish that I wrote as a partial vent about my childhood and how I identify with Azul and his backstory.
Azul makes me feel conflicted...
warning: the mentioned childhood bullying is pulled from my own childhood and children are just mean.
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"You think I don't understand?" You asked the Overbloted Azul with almost disbelief in your voice. "Listen, you're not going to find someone who understands more than me."
You step forward and away from the safety of your companions. Azul allows it as he knows you have no way to hurt him, being completely magicless as you are.
"I was the little pudgy kid who wanted to be everyone's friend. And you wanna know what I got for it?" You would've had tears in your eyes if you weren't underwater. "I've been hit in the back of the head with a basketball and had no one apologize, I had kids try to jump me in the hallway for getting a part they wanted in a play that I didn't even want, I used to be targeted specifically by asshole kids because I was a crybaby and they thought it was funny to make me cry, I asked to play with the neighbor kids and they told me to drink gutter water…." You take breaths to try and calm yourself a little.
Your eyes hurt and you couldn't explain why. Was it the salt water? You don't know….
"You know, Azul. I think the biggest difference between you and me is even with everything that's happened to us in our lives… You turned around and became one of the bullies and I didn't."
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Maybe I'll figure out what to write around it and put it somewhere like Ao3? IDK
