East Exploration Mingle (CLOSED)

[equinoctials]

characters: Aziraphale, Bucky, Crowley, Hopper, Jason Todd, Kol, Ignis, Kakyoin, M.K., Noctis, Riku
location: East of Beacon
date/time: September 9-12
content: Mingle log for various interactions happening during the expedition to explore east of Beacon.
warnings: Please put warnings in your threads if you need to warn for something!

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[equinoctials]

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[ Riku's exhale speaks the regret he doesn't put into words, he doesn't bother to tell him he's sorry to hear it, it's obvious it's a tragedy but it's nothing words can change. He was lucky. When the islands fell to the darkness, that could have easily been it. All those lives lost to the dark or scattered across the sea of shared sky, all those happy memories playing with his friends, drenched in sunshine, gone.

They were able to get their home back. Not all worlds, not all people, are so lucky. ]

It might have. It sounds like you two were close.

[ This is dangerously vulnerable territory and Riku feels like this is prying, or at the very least opening up an opportunity to talk about stuff he isn't sure is all that appropriate. But then... they've shared some pretty personal things with each other already. Isn't the worry here less about the subject, the content, and more about how he feels that might change this thing between them? To make them less like friendly acquaintances and more like... friends. ]

It probably helped her to imagine something better for you.

[darkeyed]

<sub>[No, it's nothing words can change. It's nothing coating his hands in the blood of a new Azra could change. It's nothing, he knows deep down, getting revenge on Sunny would have changed. He lost a mother and a mentor, the happy memories of one forever welded to the loss of the other.

He'd thought her weak once--but to see him at his absolute worst again and again and not turn away from him? No one else had stayed by his side for so long. Now that he's seen himself at his absolute worst, he's a thousand times humbled she hadn't just drowned him or abandoned him.]</sub>

It feels like forever ago. I was a different person back then. But she was a good person. She didn't deserve what happened to her.

_{[He briefly turns his face away, but there are no tears to hide. The last of them had dried up in the fever of Pilgrim's crusade. Is it wrong? Is it wrong to miss the way that fire had burned the chill out of his grief?]}