#zelette

Zelos makes it his personal mission to make Colette smile.

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Colette likes to watch Zelos, sometimes.

Though their first meeting was far from perfect (and admittedly a little hazy, from Colette’s side), she’s found that he doesn’t seem very bothered by it at all. He flirts with her, just as he does with Sheena, Raine, and Presea, and while Sheena insists this isn’t a good thing, Colette doesn’t mind too much. And she’s found that, while he doesn’t really like to show it, he can be nice, too.

(During nights where they are not fortunate enough to make it to an inn, he always finds his place next to her. Despite no longer suffering from the symptoms of her angel transformation, she has found the transition overwhelmingly difficult; sleep still does not come easily to her, but it doesn’t seem to come easily to Zelos, either.)

At first, they didn’t talk a lot. When they did, it was just one-liners, jokes and overused pick-up lines, always met with a smile from Colette. She understands why they others get irritated with him, but she also notices that when everyone looks away, his eyes gloss over a bit, as if he is suddenly relaxing, even though his body language tries to tell them that he is always relaxed.

Colette supposes she has spent a large portion of her life putting up faces, too. Perhaps that’s just the reality of their twisted fates, as Chosens.

Her masks and Zelos’s are different, though. When Colette is trying to appear strong so that nobody will worry about her, Zelos is laughing and joking and dismissing everything that’s wrong. But Colette wonders, sometimes, about some of the things he says; loosely-veiled remarks about his discontentment with his life, with the Chosen system, with the politics of Tethe’alla and somewhere in there the thought of running away from it all. The rest of the party dismisses it, says that’s just how he is, but Colette isn’t so sure if they should.

She wonders, sometimes, if his jokes are not really jokes at all.

The tale of a princess who would sacrifice all she had for love.

After he'd betrayed the party and they'd accepted him back among their ranks, Zelos felt conflicted. A night with the one he thought he'd hurt the most is enough to change that.

The world is a lonely place after you’d traveled it with friends. But it’s okay, because there will always be a place for you.