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emmelie de forest - only teardrops
They remember him lying to them (an omission is a lie, they have learned that in their time around humans, and Yuuma omitted and so he lied), remember that one— that one replacing them, remember that one feeling wrong in a way that they hadn’t been able to put a finger on, and yet Yuuma hadn’t seen it, Yuuma had still replaced them. Replaced them and ignored them and when they try to fuse there is whispering in their ears and perhaps it’s that one or perhaps it’s their own but either way he betrayed them he replaced them he lied to them and something snaps.
(they are burning and going out all at once and there is painpainpain and their thoughts are fractured and his body is thick and heavy in their control but he can attack, he can attack and attack if nothing else he can attack)
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bastille - things we lost in the fire
Do you ever think about before, he wants to ask; do you ever wonder— do you ever wish— do you think, if it had never happened, but you can’t ask things like that, or he can’t - they can’t - anyway. Can’t acknowledge what they were, what they could have been, what they’ll never be no matter what they do for Tron because Tron isn’t their father any more than they’re Chris or Thomas or Michael now, none of them are what they were and none of them will ever be those things again.
(all he can do is to press lips to V’s throat because it’s okay, it’s okay, they’re not Chris and Thomas anymore so what’s to stop them; all he can do is move V’s hand, cover the scar with the fingers as if the cold of them will make it stop burning; all he can do is breathe the name-that-isn’t-V’s and turn it into a plea before V can ever tell it was meant for more than that)