[Somewhere, here, his hands are going to find Ardyn's again and hold on, like holding on is the only thing he knows how to do.]
They shouldn't have left you. My family shouldn't have offered me up on the altar of promised prosperity. But they did and here we are, anyway, you and me and every other wreck on this rock screwed up by the people who should have protected us.
But - that's the answer I've chosen.
[Not to the ones Ardyn asked aloud, maybe, but to the one he thinks is at the core of it - why keep trying?]
Because I'm determined to be better than the people who left me behind. Because living and loving and making it even a little better, for you and me and every other wreck, is the single biggest spite I have to everything they tried to make me into. Because that alone makes it worth it, and everything else is just a bonus.
[Spite is a powerful motivator, as Ardyn should well know.]
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[Somewhere, here, his hands are going to find Ardyn's again and hold on, like holding on is the only thing he knows how to do.]
They shouldn't have left you. My family shouldn't have offered me up on the altar of promised prosperity. But they did and here we are, anyway, you and me and every other wreck on this rock screwed up by the people who should have protected us.
But - that's the answer I've chosen.
[Not to the ones Ardyn asked aloud, maybe, but to the one he thinks is at the core of it - why keep trying?]
Because I'm determined to be better than the people who left me behind. Because living and loving and making it even a little better, for you and me and every other wreck, is the single biggest spite I have to everything they tried to make me into. Because that alone makes it worth it, and everything else is just a bonus.
[Spite is a powerful motivator, as Ardyn should well know.]