[V would argue that’s not an entirely healthy way to go about it, my guy, but they did touch on that briefly before, didn’t they? Things that are left to fester will catch up one way or another; either all at once, or insidiously, culminating over the years of so much neglect.
…But! For now, they’re talking about a tattoo gun taken apart, right? That’s totally what they’re talking about.
And yet.
And yet those words still strike him rather unexpectedly, finding their home in a different context altogether — though Declan would of course not realize this. The pieces are just as important as the whole. He knows this, of course. He forced his way back into his whole self just to prove that point, to fix himself. To make him even stronger than before. He wasn’t just cast-off weakness, he was a pillar holding the entirety of the self up.
But sometimes, there’s still a whisper of doubt. The belief that his value is only directly attributed to what he’s supposed to be, not what he is. It’s a tangled mess, that’s what it is, despite being mostly resolved. He supposes here, though, he has to deal with it all over again.]
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…But! For now, they’re talking about a tattoo gun taken apart, right? That’s totally what they’re talking about.
And yet.
And yet those words still strike him rather unexpectedly, finding their home in a different context altogether — though Declan would of course not realize this. The pieces are just as important as the whole. He knows this, of course. He forced his way back into his whole self just to prove that point, to fix himself. To make him even stronger than before. He wasn’t just cast-off weakness, he was a pillar holding the entirety of the self up.
But sometimes, there’s still a whisper of doubt. The belief that his value is only directly attributed to what he’s supposed to be, not what he is. It’s a tangled mess, that’s what it is, despite being mostly resolved. He supposes here, though, he has to deal with it all over again.]
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