@absclutio : "I'm trying not to care." 𝔪𝔢𝔪𝔢 — ( ⛧ )
𝐡𝐞'𝐝 𝐧𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐛𝐞𝐞𝐧 𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐰𝐚𝐥𝐤 𝐨𝐧 𝐞𝐠𝐠𝐬𝐡𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐬. not really. swiss wasn't timid, he didn't toe around things. that didn't change when it came to terzo. he'd seen how some of the others would avoid certain topics, painfully keep eyes away from or just straight up stare at the scarring around the former papa's neck. the man had been sent to hell and brought back. and brought back. and brought back again. so what?
𝐰𝐡𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐮𝐜𝐤 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐚 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐨𝐬 𝐠𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐥 𝐭𝐨 𝐣𝐮𝐝𝐠𝐞 ?
and he didn't. none of that lucifer's chosen shit mattered to him. truthfully it irked him that people used it against the man. he notices. he notices quite a lot. another thing he noticed was a shift in the other's demeanor one day ; something clearly troubling the third and he had a feeling he knew what it was.
[ i'm trying not to care. ] the man's response to the ghoul's questioning.
❝ — but you do. ❞ he's not afraid to call the other out. he tells it as it is ; that's just how he is and he wouldn't change it for anyone. the taller ghoul had kept his pace to match the steps of the other as they walked across the abbey campus but now swiss slows to a stop, hand gently grabbing the arm of the other to stop him, turning him halfway so they now were facing each other. ❝ look at me. ❞
his hold shifts, both hands placed upon both shoulders of the man opposite him as golden eyes look down, meeting the mismatched gaze of the other's. ❝ fuck 'em. or — maybe they're right. maybe you are some sort of inhuman monster coming back from the pits of hell. so what ? ❞ maybe that's not the most motivational speech he's had before, but the purpose is there. one hand moves, fingers curled in to bump beneath terzo's chin.
❝ that just makes you even cooler in my book. besides, you're still one handsome little bastard. ❞
