[ Okay it kinda is, because that's better then "get hype for the murder party", but. Will!!
But that gets benched in favour of the tangled mess of stress they just accidentally stumbled into. They can revisit happier talk of not-maiming later. There's no break in their stride at the misstep, but they do go quiet in a way that has nothing to do with physical words. ]
... I meant if he did something, specifically. [ To him, or just in general?
Battler's sins are many. And regardless of how important he is to them, or how hard the cloying atmosphere of Wonderland is working to smooth away any possible strife, there is a specific feeling that can never be erased without destroying something vital to who they are. They will carry it in their heart for as long as they remember, in the place of one who... couldn't, anymore. And that's fine. They're okay with that.
The two are not necessarily contradictory. They can be glad that he's alive, with every fibre of their being, while also resenting that he's just fine while-
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[ Okay it kinda is, because that's better then "get hype for the murder party", but. Will!!
But that gets benched in favour of the tangled mess of stress they just accidentally stumbled into. They can revisit happier talk of not-maiming later. There's no break in their stride at the misstep, but they do go quiet in a way that has nothing to do with physical words. ]
... I meant if he did something, specifically. [ To him, or just in general?
Battler's sins are many. And regardless of how important he is to them, or how hard the cloying atmosphere of Wonderland is working to smooth away any possible strife, there is a specific feeling that can never be erased without destroying something vital to who they are. They will carry it in their heart for as long as they remember, in the place of one who... couldn't, anymore. And that's fine. They're okay with that.
The two are not necessarily contradictory. They can be glad that he's alive, with every fibre of their being, while also resenting that he's just fine while-
Hhhhhhh. Migraine, ow. ]