[UWAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH MY ZORA FAMILY FEELINGSSSSSSSS
Luke can't even lose his mind about tiny baby Sidon BECAUSE THIS IS SAD... truly the void picked equal opportunity grief doxxing. Luke is a massive hypocrite, so even though he pawed at Sidon to try and make him stop Perceiving, he reaches out now to put a comforting hand on Sidon's arm.]
[ zora royal family angst...... he startles out of the memory, but picks up his composure quickly, putting a hand over luke's with a slightly rattled smile. this hypocrite. ]
I do, yes. [ he does. he lets out a huff. ] But it was a long time ago.
[ a pause, considering. ]
...Maybe that's silly of me to say. These things have a way of staying with you, no matter how the years pass.
[ sweet luke... combined with the applebees lore they just got.
he gives his arm a squeeze. ]
I'm sorry.
[ which sounds a bit rote, but he is. loss is so personal and individual, but he does sort of understand. he doesn't usually talk about this either, even if he isn't secretive. ]
I do believe time makes things easier! [ it soothes the anger of a wound. ] But I know that even if the memory fades, it leaves an... absence, I suppose. There's still learning to live around it.
[ what's lost doesn't just fill back in. a missing memory isn't just replaced wholesale with new ones. ]
[It is a little rote, admittedly, but Luke doesn't really mind it. At least not any more than he minds the general concept of Being Perceived.]
Mm, I guess so. [Truly, he has shoved these emotions so far down, committing fully to the part of being Not A Burden since before he was even in school. It feels incredibly bizarre to think about it now, let alone talk about it with someone he, arguably, doesn't even know that well.] I don't know. I've always felt really lucky--I know a lot of kids like me wind up in bad situations.
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Luke can't even lose his mind about tiny baby Sidon BECAUSE THIS IS SAD... truly the void picked equal opportunity grief doxxing. Luke is a massive hypocrite, so even though he pawed at Sidon to try and make him stop Perceiving, he reaches out now to put a comforting hand on Sidon's arm.]
You miss her.
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I do, yes. [ he does. he lets out a huff. ] But it was a long time ago.
[ a pause, considering. ]
...Maybe that's silly of me to say. These things have a way of staying with you, no matter how the years pass.
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No Luke doesn't do that. He does think it though.]
Yeah. [...Okay fine he'll be nice. HE IS SHARING... JUST FOR YOU, SIDON...] I don't remember my parents, but I still visit their graves every year.
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he gives his arm a squeeze. ]
I'm sorry.
[ which sounds a bit rote, but he is. loss is so personal and individual, but he does sort of understand. he doesn't usually talk about this either, even if he isn't secretive. ]
I do believe time makes things easier! [ it soothes the anger of a wound. ] But I know that even if the memory fades, it leaves an... absence, I suppose. There's still learning to live around it.
[ what's lost doesn't just fill back in. a missing memory isn't just replaced wholesale with new ones. ]
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Mm, I guess so. [Truly, he has shoved these emotions so far down, committing fully to the part of being Not A Burden since before he was even in school. It feels incredibly bizarre to think about it now, let alone talk about it with someone he, arguably, doesn't even know that well.] I don't know. I've always felt really lucky--I know a lot of kids like me wind up in bad situations.