can't stop thinking about roathe losing the man he loved, being convinced it was his fault that he was warframed, feeling so distraught and heartbroken and hateful of his lot in life that he took albrecht up on the serum
and in the process of a literal reinvention of self rediscovering what it means to feel alive and enjOY being alive in a way he hadnt thought he'd get to again. and when he hauls himself bodily back to the future, finding andromeda - so helpful, so beautiful, so on his wavelength - and somehow, somehow, she wants him and she feels the connection too
and how wonderful, really, to love something so powerful and resilient, he is so ready to bend his knee if she will keep looking at him like that
and then someday. someday they are going to find Uriel Prime. and when she hops into the frame in a desperate attempt to take it home - despite roathe's protests - she falls back out of it, half sobbing a name he has never spoken aloud, a name she should not know
and the warframe begins to shudder, to move on its own, and both him and his weeping lover watching it shift and transform until standing before him is the man he'd lost - hale and whole, though tired and shaken and kind of confused
the man he'd loved and the woman he loves, embracing and crying in each other's arms and it clicks all at once - the swirling void scars on both of them, the vague allusions to "the man / woman i loved"
the two people he has loved most in his life - that he realizes he still loves, staring at him now - loved each other first.
and the way he's going to try to leave them alone bc he feels like it is not his place to put himself between them. the way they're both going to balk at that, and it will become abundantly clear very quickly that he has gone from never being loved to having two people - two people who should not exist and who may as well be gods in their own rights - telling him they are still in love with him, of course they are, can we not all be together? the three of us?
roathe and andromeda with their lost love back in their arms.
hyth with his lost loves back in his arms.
roathe being held and kissed and adored. what were the odds? impossible - it should have been impossible - but somehow he has been given everything he's ever wanted.
the devil and his void angels