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bakerstreet2025-05-23 04:34 pm
hemlocksock) wrote in bakerstreet2025-05-23 04:34 pm
I don't want to be in love, I don't want to be in love
EVER BEEN IN LOVE?
Be for real. Be so for real right now. We won't judge.
how to play
I. Answer the question IC-ly in your top level.
II. Has your character ever been in love before? Yes, no, maybe so? Give us all the details.
III. Repliers will
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Is that a spoiler? Yes.
Do you think I don't understand the depths of your love? Don't you understand that's precisely why I'm trying to save you? The love you have... it'll kill you.
... and it won't be a kind death, either, Renoir.
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Have you thought that I could repeat the same about you?
Death is nobody's favourite topic, Verso. But you are old enough to understand that it is only in the face of death we understand the true meaning of love: to live for someone other than ourselves.
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You want to live not for yourself but for her?
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You make it sound complicated. My reason for living is to make her happy.
[That's a yes, then.]
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Is that love?
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It is devotion. And to open your heart to devotion is to open yourself to the divine.
[Perhaps devotion - his connection to that moment of bliss - is why he built that shrine out on the cliffs. In any case, his point is that devotion cannot be matched by any other kind of love.]
You want to define love according to your own experience. But love is a different experience for everyone.
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[ He takes in what Renoir says before quietly, almost at a murmur, asking: ]
Like grief is?
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[That almost lowers his voice.
Almost.]
Like grief, yes.
[But he sees what Verso is trying to do. To say that his experience of grief is different because he has never lost a son.]
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Her love and her grief is different from what you feel. Don't you ever worry that it's going to a god that --
[ Verso quiets. He can't finish his question. Because he too loves Aline. Perhaps it is what has been painted into him, but he loves her enough to want to save her from herself. He loves her enough to hate his own existence - the thing that's killing her and his family.
He lets out a small sigh. ]
Perhaps, you're right. Love is something that will take us down a road that we never thought we'd go down.
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[His son wants to save his mother from herself. He wants to save her so that she can be happy. The two are in direct opposition. One more thing that's killing their family.]
Not just you, or even me, but our family.
[Alicia.... and Clea wherever she may be. That thought makes him fall silent.]
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And yet ... I feel like none of this gives you peace.
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I will find peace when your mother returns home and our family is restored.
[And he means THEIR home thank you.]
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Until then you'll live a wretched life in your devotion and love.
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If that is what you believe, then I am truly sorry.
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... I'm sorry, too.