would it really be so terrible to be forgotten after your death? perhaps when the whole is severed away, all that will remain are the pleasant vestiges.
kira will remember playfully slinging someone over her shoulder. sora will remember a steadfast voice helping her through a difficult time. lucio will remember a supporting presence, and perhaps memories of a longing he is no longer compelled to act on. but none will remember you or your death. there will be no sadness, no mourning period.
you will fade away without a trace. and everyone will be happier for it.
*after a long time spent quietly staring at this ask, it ultimately goes unanswered, ren turning off his phone immediately after.
*what did you expect him to say? what is there for him to say?
*he doesn't wish to be wept for. as his health declines further, worries of what will be of his companions once he's gone has begun to settle into their mind.
*but dear Wings—the thought of being forgotten, of the world moving on and casting him aside so easily, terrifies him more than dying itself.
*it's surely selfish; but the pinky apprentice wishes so deeply to be remembered. if he's fated to live a life so fleeting, he hopes that at least the memory of him—a mark made upon the earth in his name—will live on a little longer in his stead, wether that is as a star amongst the night sky or someone who walked the path towards it until the very end. it's the one source of solace he's found when coming to terms with his timely death.
*a stinging feeling forms right under his eyelids. it takes more effort than usual to suppress the tears and focus back on what he'd been doing.
