[ he can at least be relieved that this memory has not been the one circulating the most, but he does feel a twinge of loathing at this weekly effect. exhausting. ]
... it is. If I had the chance to go back and pick a different option, to change anything, I wouldn't.
I owe him my life, in many ways, but it's - layered, I suppose, is the best way to put it. The things I do aren't because I seek to repay him what's owed.
I would give him the same kindness he gave me a thousand times, because I was grateful for it when I hadn't known any. But he deserves that kindness for being the person that he is. Beautiful and caring and human, which so many gods forget to be. And there are those that would ruin that goodness or mock his flaws.
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... it is. If I had the chance to go back and pick a different option, to change anything, I wouldn't.
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... Because you owe him, or because of who he is in his entirety? Or both, I suppose.
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I owe him my life, in many ways, but it's - layered, I suppose, is the best way to put it. The things I do aren't because I seek to repay him what's owed.
I would give him the same kindness he gave me a thousand times, because I was grateful for it when I hadn't known any. But he deserves that kindness for being the person that he is. Beautiful and caring and human, which so many gods forget to be. And there are those that would ruin that goodness or mock his flaws.
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I would imagine many gods forget what it's like to be "lesser". [...] He's lucky to have you.
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[ he's forgotten, sometimes. but he holds onto it anyways. ]
But I'm lucky to have him, so it's mutual, in the end.
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[one of mutual need or want.]
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