[Lortel Kehelland is so quick to dismiss her tears--her real, wrenching horror, terror, and grief--as laughable. As weakness. She calls them ridiculous, when, to Aqua, there could be nothing more precious in any world.
The hand that isn't already touching her rises to touch her cheek, just a knuckle, a soft brush where he can land between her fingers.]
I think... maybe I've been the fool. For a long time.
[Ruby wept, raged, and schemed revenge for Amamiya Gorou, her first and only love. Kana called Aqua her idol, promised she'd curse him and slap his corpse if he ever even thought about dying. To Akane, he was both savior and an object of rescue, one for which she was willing to stain her hands with blood.
Aqua saw how they all cast him and understood the roles to be roles, knew that they weren't seeing him. He played the characters the girls projected on Hoshino Aquamarine, knowing there would be a time he left the set. Who would he be when the cameras stopped rolling? That, he never had an answer for.
But in a stageplay or film, roles are nothing without an actor to bring them to life. Whatever those girls saw, they were still looking at him.
Lortel wouldn't cry like this for the fake boyfriend she created. She's crying for him.
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[Lortel Kehelland is so quick to dismiss her tears--her real, wrenching horror, terror, and grief--as laughable. As weakness. She calls them ridiculous, when, to Aqua, there could be nothing more precious in any world.
The hand that isn't already touching her rises to touch her cheek, just a knuckle, a soft brush where he can land between her fingers.]
I think... maybe I've been the fool. For a long time.
[Ruby wept, raged, and schemed revenge for Amamiya Gorou, her first and only love. Kana called Aqua her idol, promised she'd curse him and slap his corpse if he ever even thought about dying. To Akane, he was both savior and an object of rescue, one for which she was willing to stain her hands with blood.
Aqua saw how they all cast him and understood the roles to be roles, knew that they weren't seeing him. He played the characters the girls projected on Hoshino Aquamarine, knowing there would be a time he left the set. Who would he be when the cameras stopped rolling? That, he never had an answer for.
But in a stageplay or film, roles are nothing without an actor to bring them to life. Whatever those girls saw, they were still looking at him.
Lortel wouldn't cry like this for the fake boyfriend she created. She's crying for him.
His eyes sting.]
...I almost betrayed you. Lortel... I'm sorry.