REMI
the alchemist
& my heart ran away with me
"I did." Remi agrees with an understanding shrug. It was why he'd endured then all of the hurtful things his husband had said to him, the way he'd let himself be torn into with talons and teeth that had nearly stripped the life from his bones. Because he did know, and he did understand, and gods though he could never hate his children, he could still wish for their paternity to be different.
It occurs to Remi then, that Ronin hating himself rather than either he or Hotaru, might simply be what the Knight wanted to believe. It was the more noble route to be sure but after all these years now of pinning it on Hotaru, gods but the Bastion wasn't so sure he believed it.
"I suppose I just wanted to set the record straight. " For once. "Hotaru and I are equally at fault for not having used protection, but aside from that..." Agreeing to help her with her quest before knowing what it entailed, rescuing her from Sunjata and Nate, going to her when she'd only just escaped Halo and bringing her to the Greatwood, keeping her in the Greatwood after she'd given birth, those had all been because of the Bastion. "..none of it was her fault."
Wanting to press the heels of his hands against his eyes to stop his tears but being unable to because of the salt water and sand that coated them, Remi could do little else than offer his husband a rather pleading and miserable look.
"I thought after all these years the initial sting of it would have faded." And really, it had, given the relationship that had bloomed between the Knight and the Doubletake. "But whatever is left—" And clearly some was. "—you can't keep hating her for the things that I chose."
It occurs to Remi then, that Ronin hating himself rather than either he or Hotaru, might simply be what the Knight wanted to believe. It was the more noble route to be sure but after all these years now of pinning it on Hotaru, gods but the Bastion wasn't so sure he believed it.
"I suppose I just wanted to set the record straight. " For once. "Hotaru and I are equally at fault for not having used protection, but aside from that..." Agreeing to help her with her quest before knowing what it entailed, rescuing her from Sunjata and Nate, going to her when she'd only just escaped Halo and bringing her to the Greatwood, keeping her in the Greatwood after she'd given birth, those had all been because of the Bastion. "..none of it was her fault."
Wanting to press the heels of his hands against his eyes to stop his tears but being unable to because of the salt water and sand that coated them, Remi could do little else than offer his husband a rather pleading and miserable look.
"I thought after all these years the initial sting of it would have faded." And really, it had, given the relationship that had bloomed between the Knight and the Doubletake. "But whatever is left—" And clearly some was. "—you can't keep hating her for the things that I chose."
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.
