@CelestGlaukopis do not judge you harsher than your own creator would.
You have been given a wonderful life. Now you just have to remember how to live.
Your own life. Not the life of everyone in Sinnoh.
@CelestGlaukopis Eternal atonement is mentioned vaguely in a poem as a distinct circle of hell. I don't know about you, but I consider the kind of guilt you are so intent on bearing a form of violence against the self. That's also a circle of hell. A great poem, by the way.
I only ask that you —
I'm the good little Arcueist boy who can do no wrong, but every now and then I'm overcome by the desire to inhale like a crap ton of edibles. Like just an insane number.
@CelestGlaukopis But I'd rather not be a reason. Sounds like a social contract I'm not quite ready to sign. I feel like... I don't know.
There's a weight to it that I just don't want. F-for either of us, y'know? This is about your desires. I don't want you to feel bound by your word.
@CelestGlaukopis ( To think they'd wound up here from such a simple lie, he can hardly believe it. )
There's nothing stopping you, yeah? Then be a force of good. I just have one request, if you don't mind.
You mentioned... Us. I'd love to be a source of strength and conviction for you, Cynth. —
@CelestGlaukopis concern myself with the past. Neither should you.
What's done is done. I won't fault you for trying to find goodness in every corner. There's enough cynicism in this world already.
But if you want to better yourself, I can only say, "Good luck, I believe in you."
@CelestGlaukopis Quelle galère... ( Perhaps not the reaction she was looking for, but to hear these words after so many years have passed. It does nothing but exasperate him.
It's a good thing Cynthia doesn't want forgiveness, because she certainly wouldn't get any from him. )
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