[ And where she expected some kind of passable non-answer, Lux prepared to simply let it go. Their scars were a part of who they were, something so personal, and after practically forcing an answer from him the last time, what had nearly cleaved him in two... It wasn't that she didn't want to know, but that, perhaps, that was far too personal of a question to ask.
So when he spoke with little hesitation, she stopped, staring in muted surprise. ]
...
[ She held her breath, surprise turning into well-masked bewilderment.
(He turned his father into an akuma. A soul capable of feeling only anger and anguish...)
In his mourning, angry and frustrated at the world, Allen acted in a way that only a child could. Yelling, screaming, cursing the world and this unfair fate, and doing everything in his power to try to defy it, to take back what small fragment of normalcy that had once been his.
And at that, her heart ached, because in some small way...
(She kicked, screamed, damned her name, her fate, her power, as she was pulled away from everything she knew and loved and taken to that place. All for the glory and honor of her beloved crown and country. She hated it! She hated all of it with every fiber of her being! It wasn't fair, she screamed. IT WASN'T FAIR! )
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So when he spoke with little hesitation, she stopped, staring in muted surprise. ]
...
[ She held her breath, surprise turning into well-masked bewilderment.
(He turned his father into an akuma. A soul capable of feeling only anger and anguish...)
In his mourning, angry and frustrated at the world, Allen acted in a way that only a child could. Yelling, screaming, cursing the world and this unfair fate, and doing everything in his power to try to defy it, to take back what small fragment of normalcy that had once been his.
And at that, her heart ached, because in some small way...
(She kicked, screamed, damned her name, her fate, her power, as she was pulled away from everything she knew and loved and taken to that place. All for the glory and honor of her beloved crown and country. She hated it! She hated all of it with every fiber of her being! It wasn't fair, she screamed. IT WASN'T FAIR! )
She could understand why. ]