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★—  ❛   You say that as though I signed up for the title. For the glory.   ❜ 

Though his rank was earned, and that in itself was an HONOUR  - he never read too much into it, given he knew he was a soldier --- with a duty, just as everyone else on the field. 

❛   I didn’t get into what I do to be BRANDED a hero. I wanted to be someone to look after others, I wanted to be someone that puts my all into ensuring that people have a peaceful life, that they can come to me for HELP. They called me, at one point, the sentinel of LIBERTY --- and I believe that, because there’s nothing more I want than for people to be FREE; for people to be who they want to be, to love who they want to love, to walk the streets without FEAR in the back of their minds. Ambitious, I know, but it isn’t impossible.   ❜

His poise was STRONG --- held HIGH with not a doubt nor hesitation in every word he uttered. He believed this, sincerely, he believed himself. 

------------      there  is  something  about  cruelty  ,  about  desperation  that  simmers  in  the  flame  of  her  withering  soul  .  dying  is  a  violent  act  ,  a  wolf  eating  at  the  heart ’ s  tender  .  he  fills  his  blood  with  it  ,  he  plucks  the  bones  that  the  world  has  left  behind  and  she  can  see  it  ,  she  can  feel  that  soft  thing  he  calls  a  heart  so  insipidly  beating  beneath  that  murderous  chest  (  oh  ,  she  can  see  this  too  ,  that  insidious  want  for  things  cracked  and  spilled  )  .  the  dead  who  walk  have  been  too  intimate  with  lady  death  to  ignore  her  ,  she  makes  them  her  lover  and  they  cannot  seem  to  escape  ,  so  they  hunt  her  in  all  things  ugly  ,  all  things  monstrous  and  carnal  .  they  look  for  where  the  blood  spills  ,  they  touch  that  brutality  with  their  own  hands  ,  drinking  in  that  hunger  for  a  reclusive  kind  of  death  .  he  is  a  victim  of  his  own  survival  ,  and  how  terrible  her  lips  snag  into  a  tired  smile  as  she  hears  it  in  his  throat  .      ‘      and  where  lays  thy  gratitude  ,  that  quiet  little  thing  that  encumbers  thy  soul  ?      ’      these  eyes  ,  how  they  sit  upon  him  and  watch  so  carefully  this  reflection  of  hers  .  he  is  full  with  struggle  ,  full  with  a  dissonance  that  haunts  him  so  :  how  she  hates  this  mirror  that  stands  in  front  of  her  .  but  she  would  never  say  ,  she  would  never  speak  .  she  plays  her  part  well  on  this  stage  ,  she  wears  the  skin  of  an  iron  blooded  ,  hot  blooded  ,  cold  blooded  monster  .      ‘      thou  hast  not  found  it  ,  for  something  else  keeps  thee  here  instead  .      ’      her  gaze  leads  her  to  the  moon  beyond  them  ,  waning  and  waxing  at  its  leisure  ,  never  once  tasting  blood  .  there  is  something  difficult  about  this  ,  something  that  makes  her  all  too  pitying  of  that  pure  and  innocent  thing  .

★ COMFORT STARTERS // ACCEPTING

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★— EMPATHY WAS A VALUED TRAIT. But at this point, Steve wondered how true the others words actually were ---- sometimes people would say things just for the hell of it but the way that the other carried himself, the way his eyes looked into his as he spoke --- spoke TRUTHS. 

BETRAYAL was never easy to deal with, and was something that he mostly took on his own shoulders, not to burden anyone else with such woes. Still, this time this fellow soldier, by the looks of it, seemed to see right through him. 

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MORTALS ARE SO AMUSING, thinking they hold some kind of powers over destiny - but they're freil and doomed ( This one should know better ). How could he ever thought that he could save her ? This soldier boy, too proud to see what the future would bring upon fate's shore, and yet absent when the right moment called. It makes him SMILE to see him fight against what is already sealed in History : her blood has been spilled, marking the beginning of a new Era. —— How touching, but you're quite late to the party, don't you think ? Whatever you do, it won't bring her back. “