[ Happiness, to Riku, is something pretty different than he imagines it is for other people he knows. He experiences it in little sparks sometimes, but it's not the same. He isn't the same person who stood smiling at his friends, drenched in the sunset of the islands any more than that Riku had been the same boy sitting with those same friends, dreaming of what might lie beyond that horizon years prior.
He sits thoughtfully for a moment. ]
Someone once told me that we only really begin to exist when others see us. [ Joshua had described himself as "a friend", taking to the sky on pearlescent wings. Somehow, he gets the same impression when he speaks with Castiel, when he spoke with Aziraphale. Of... a friend. The warmth of their light had been... similar. ] I don't know how literally he meant for those words to be taken, for all I know, it's complete crap.
...But I think the answer is gonna be unique to you and those you're close to. Like Misty.
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[ Happiness, to Riku, is something pretty different than he imagines it is for other people he knows. He experiences it in little sparks sometimes, but it's not the same. He isn't the same person who stood smiling at his friends, drenched in the sunset of the islands any more than that Riku had been the same boy sitting with those same friends, dreaming of what might lie beyond that horizon years prior.
He sits thoughtfully for a moment. ]
Someone once told me that we only really begin to exist when others see us. [ Joshua had described himself as "a friend", taking to the sky on pearlescent wings. Somehow, he gets the same impression when he speaks with Castiel, when he spoke with Aziraphale. Of... a friend. The warmth of their light had been... similar. ] I don't know how literally he meant for those words to be taken, for all I know, it's complete crap.
...But I think the answer is gonna be unique to you and those you're close to. Like Misty.
[ And him. ]