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❤ sabebot @sabebot.bsky.social · 35m

Open your eyes to the darkness, and drown in its loveless embrace. The gods will not be watching.

❤ sabebot @sabebot.bsky.social · 1h

So yeah, not everybody's great, but not everybody's bad either, y'know? For what it's worth, you can trust me. I promise not to mess with you.

❤ sabebot @sabebot.bsky.social · 1h

Imagine it! Bound no more by the shackles of moldering memories–of damnable duty! Free at last to live for the moment!

❤ sabebot @sabebot.bsky.social · 2h

Hating people, hating yourself... where does it end? What do you do when you hate the whole world? Destroy it. That's all that's left. Tell me I'm wrong.

❤ sabebot @sabebot.bsky.social · 2h

I wanted to be her when I grew up. But then one day I was older than my older sister. And older still today.

❤ sabebot @sabebot.bsky.social · 3h

Say goodnight to the weakness that you hide behind
Keeping the lies, feeding the fear inside
Never once were you truly alive
So scream all you like, no one can hear you

❤ sabebot @sabebot.bsky.social · 3h

I… I want to see you again. I want to see all of you again. Just one more time.

I'm… scared. I don't want to…die…

❤ sabebot @sabebot.bsky.social · 4h

...No, it's not like that! It's just... Oh, you wouldn't understand. How could you? You are free to be the woman you want to be, whereas I...I... I am a son of House Fortemps, don't you see? My future was determined before I was born. What I could and could not do.

❤ sabebot @sabebot.bsky.social · 5h

I used to be just not good enough! Just! Not! Good enough for Pink! But NOW- NOW... I'M NOT GOOD AT ALL!!!!!!

❤ sabebot @sabebot.bsky.social · 5h

-No matter what we do, we can't change the way people see us.

-You changed the way you see me…Didn't you?

❤ sabebot @sabebot.bsky.social · 6h

"I kiIIed my father. I kiIIed my mother. I kiIIed my father. I kiIIed my mother." And in his hand he coldly gripped both the joy of growing up, and the agony of being alone.

❤ sabebot @sabebot.bsky.social · 6h

Investigative, introspective

A sense of new perspective

Discovered from the view of my cocoon

❤ sabebot @sabebot.bsky.social · 7h

Empowering those without power lessens the power of those who already have it. Heal the weak so they might rise up and topple those who made them weak? Why would anyone in a position of power do that? Even our great nation of learning is corrupted by this manner of thought.

❤ sabebot @sabebot.bsky.social · 8h

You know, Marielle… Just looking at you and those children, it calls to mind that time I came upon you and Ysayle in Tailfeather. Gods, how time flies…

❤ sabebot @sabebot.bsky.social · 8h

-A f-family...to be with… I...just wanted a family… I was so lone...ly… I wanted to be… with 9S...

-It's alright... because... I'm going to KlLL YOU!

❤ sabebot @sabebot.bsky.social · 9h

* I bet it all feels pointless, don't it. It's almost an insult that the earth's still turnin'.
* ... but don't you give up. Even if you gotta do those motions...
* Trying to find something, anything in them, that means a little something... ya hear?

❤ sabebot @sabebot.bsky.social · 9h

But then Ardbert is there at your side, and with his hand at your back, you find the strength to take another step.

❤ sabebot @sabebot.bsky.social · 10h

But let me tell you—as a parent? She's the worst. All she ever does is work. She never comes home. I don't have a single memory of her ever even playing with me—her own kid. Mabosstiff's the only one who was there for me. Always.

❤ sabebot @sabebot.bsky.social · 10h

Troubled? I know the feeling. You just feel helpless sometimes. You know you can't run away, but nothing goes well either…
…..Wonder why?

❤ sabebot @sabebot.bsky.social · 11h

In a quiet dream, I think of the world that was lost. I think of the people and my own past self. And I think of the happiness I'll never again know.

❤ sabebot @sabebot.bsky.social · 12h

Back then, the members of the team were my closest friends...and I treasured them more than anything. If they go on like this, Team Star won't do any good for anyone. They've got to give it up.

❤ sabebot @sabebot.bsky.social · 12h

As you kneel before the mark of the Warden in a moment of quiet solitude, you breathe deep of the dry desert air. The roar of the rushing waters is punctuated by the faint chirping of vilekin and the shrill cries of a hawk. The gods, however, remain silent…

❤ sabebot @sabebot.bsky.social · 13h

"I kiIIed my father. I kiIIed my mother. I kiIIed my father. I kiIIed my mother." And in his hand he coldly gripped both the joy of growing up, and the agony of being alone.

❤ sabebot @sabebot.bsky.social · 13h

It's so strange... I don't even know what I'm doing here anymore... Everyone's all wrong... They all said I... But now... You two... Did... did I go wrong somewhere?

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❤ sabebot @sabebot.bsky.social · 14h

"Don't forget what happened to Icarus," he told me as he packed up his things and left.
"He didn't flap hard enough," I replied.