REMI
the alchemist
& my heart ran away with me
Releasing one of his hands in order to itch at his brow, as Remi's fingertips find one of the feathers in his hair, he frowns as he plucks it out, seemingly confused by its presence. Swallowing, he tosses it carelessly to the side as he forces his gaze to seek out Ronin's.
"Maybe I've not said it because I'm a coward, but...all these years...it felt as if you've hated her as a way of not hating me." The words come slowly, and though Remi hasn't ever pieced them together in quite this way before, the way they seem to fit into place has breath growing a touch ragged.
Holding up his fingers as if to stave off the disagreement he knows the Knight is likely to make, Remi continues. "I brought Hotaru to the Greatwood. After everything happening in Halo and what Sunjata and Nate had done to her, there was nowhere else for her to be." This, at least, Remi had said more than once before. "But every time you blame her for staying, gods, you.." The tears flow painfully down, disappearing against skin already met wet by the sea. "Ronin, those were my children." Wringing his fingers until the whine from his joints warned him against it, the Bastion sighed and wiped one of his cheeks against his shoulder.
"And you wanted to send them away." He continues, his voice now trembling more than it wasn't.
"And back then...I thought you were still working through the shock of it. The what the fuck of it all. You nearly killed me in the desert you were so angry, but...some of that was at least justified." Or maybe it wasn't, but it wasn't anything out of the ordinary for the Taliesins, even back then.
"But to know you still feel that way now? That you'd go to her all these years later demanding answers of her for something that I did?"
"Maybe I've not said it because I'm a coward, but...all these years...it felt as if you've hated her as a way of not hating me." The words come slowly, and though Remi hasn't ever pieced them together in quite this way before, the way they seem to fit into place has breath growing a touch ragged.
Holding up his fingers as if to stave off the disagreement he knows the Knight is likely to make, Remi continues. "I brought Hotaru to the Greatwood. After everything happening in Halo and what Sunjata and Nate had done to her, there was nowhere else for her to be." This, at least, Remi had said more than once before. "But every time you blame her for staying, gods, you.." The tears flow painfully down, disappearing against skin already met wet by the sea. "Ronin, those were my children." Wringing his fingers until the whine from his joints warned him against it, the Bastion sighed and wiped one of his cheeks against his shoulder.
"And you wanted to send them away." He continues, his voice now trembling more than it wasn't.
"And back then...I thought you were still working through the shock of it. The what the fuck of it all. You nearly killed me in the desert you were so angry, but...some of that was at least justified." Or maybe it wasn't, but it wasn't anything out of the ordinary for the Taliesins, even back then.
"But to know you still feel that way now? That you'd go to her all these years later demanding answers of her for something that I did?"
Speaks with a thick Italian accent.
Force and magic can be used against Remi without permission.
Force and magic can be used against Remi without permission.
