MAEA
"I see... Disassociating. Is that what it's called, when I get like that? It's happened before, but I never had a name for it." It suggested a break between her thoughts and what happened outside them. Apt, she supposed, though Maea wasn't fond of the implication that she had been rendered inept and unable so often that the state could be named. What did it say about her, that she would freeze up rather than fight back? Neither felt like a good thing, but... perhaps better than the running away. She'd done plenty of that too.
Why did she freeze upon seeing Flora? Maea had never considered the why. Logically speaking she had such flimsy connections to the Doubletake that merely seeing her approach shouldn't have meant anything at all. But if she thought back... there really wasn't anything positive associated with the queen, either. That catastrophic meeting aside, their second encounter hadn't been fun for Maea either.
"I guess... I recalled the previous time we met," she slowly replied, frowning softly in thought. "I was already in a dark place, and there was that misunderstanding... she walked past just as I concluded that my tendency to run away from conflict was 'pathetic'. She heard me, thought I was insulting her, and once again I froze. Astaroth was there too, and between the two of them, I just... couldn't get a single word out." Even now she felt how their disparaging words and snide smirks diminished her, turning her depressed state and anxiety into something cloying and dangerous, like a debilitating poison by which she was rendered mute and petrified. Unable to speak. Unable to fight back.
Why did she freeze upon seeing Flora? Maea had never considered the why. Logically speaking she had such flimsy connections to the Doubletake that merely seeing her approach shouldn't have meant anything at all. But if she thought back... there really wasn't anything positive associated with the queen, either. That catastrophic meeting aside, their second encounter hadn't been fun for Maea either.
"I guess... I recalled the previous time we met," she slowly replied, frowning softly in thought. "I was already in a dark place, and there was that misunderstanding... she walked past just as I concluded that my tendency to run away from conflict was 'pathetic'. She heard me, thought I was insulting her, and once again I froze. Astaroth was there too, and between the two of them, I just... couldn't get a single word out." Even now she felt how their disparaging words and snide smirks diminished her, turning her depressed state and anxiety into something cloying and dangerous, like a debilitating poison by which she was rendered mute and petrified. Unable to speak. Unable to fight back.
I see a new horizon, holding on to hope
Say goodbye to all my pain when it's time for me to go
Say goodbye to all my pain when it's time for me to go
BASE INSPIRED BY ODD <3
