08 | do you want me only for my body?

[alephbet]

Characters: Aleph and you.
Setting: June 1st, riiight after the reveal.
Format: Starting with actionspam, but will match you.
Summary: Aleph has had enough of it.
Warnings: Will edit if anything comes up.

[Aleph has always tried to stay strong.

He was a gladiator with no memories, then a Messiah with no choices. Then a hero with no ability to save the people he knew or even stop from killing them himself. Then a God-killer whose punishment would be eternal.

He did these things, he lived through these things and took minimal comfort because he knew it would all be worth it. For the people he would save, in the end. The future he would build.

Now he stares at what should be hands, his hands, as he sits outside his dorm room on the floor. He thinks about where he should be, what he'd done so much work for, and yet everyone on that world is dead now. He misses his demons. He realizes -

he doesn't even have eyes to cry-

-and so he just huddles up on the floor and sniffles pathetically.]

Comments

[lightofhumanity]

Do not mention it. I enjoy helping others..especially if they are my friends.

[alephbet]

I don't know where I'd be without friends here.

[lightofhumanity]

Nor would I. While some of them have vanished, the ones that remain do help me push on.

[Among other things. But chaos isn't going to discuss those unless he has to.]

[alephbet]

I can manage this. We all can.

[lightofhumanity]

It will be hard..but I imagine that most of us will.

[alephbet]

That's the best we can do.

[lightofhumanity]

Exactly. And if others struggle, we shall have to help them out as well.

[alephbet]

What else are heroes for...?

[lightofhumanity]

I am not sure, since heroes and what they can do can differ from person to person. However..we, as people right now, can do that, and a few other things, I imagine.

[alephbet]

I hope I can do at least a little, then.

[lightofhumanity]

I am sure that we both will be able to. So do not despair or lose your hope.

[alephbet]

It was just for a moment.

[lightofhumanity]

..And might not that moment have become longer if no one had come around?

[alephbet]

...yes.

[Reluctant to admit it.]

[lightofhumanity]

It is alright. That is normal for most people. I am just glad that it was only for a moment this time.

[alephbet]

Thanks, chaos.

[lightofhumanity]

Do not mention it. I enjoy helping others.

[alephbet]

I figured.

[lightofhumanity]

[..He had repeated that line with Aleph before, so that wasn't surprising. Nodding, chaos stood up again, thinking.]

How well do you think you are now?

[alephbet]

A little better. Not a hundred percent yet.

[lightofhumanity]

I do not think it would be normal for most to be a hundred percent after something like this. But it is good that you are feeling a little better. If you are alright, I shall wander off and see if anyone else is hurting.

[alephbet]

Take care, all right?

[lightofhumanity]

Do not worry. I shall be alright.

[And, with a smile and a wave, chaos began walking off, looking for others who needed help..and hoping that Aleph would remember to do something about how man or sad he was feeling.]