Interlude

[sangreine]

Who: ​☆ZRAEL and guests
Where: what is says on the tin
When: cute girl o'clock (Day 473 through post-next games-ish)

[ Some girls bopping around and/or recovering from... hmm, idk the future, but maybe zombies?! ]

Comments

[constellationprize]

Oh, but -

... Even so, that child is still your brother, isn't he?

[glidinglight]

I think so? I don't know exactly how it works. Like, is he really just the other Lumine's brother? Does it still count even if we're basically living each other's lives?

[constellationprize]

But in that case, it's a common experience that you've been able to share together, isn't it? Even if it's that there are particles that have been misplaced, or that your positions have changed, or any things like that - ...

Even so, if it's something that the two of you have chosen for yourselves, aren't you still siblings?

[glidinglight]

It's.... yeah, I think so? But... what about the Aether of my timeline? Am I... betraying him?

[ Even as she says it, it sounds silly, but SHE ALSO CAN'T HELP BUT FEEL ANXIOUS ANYWAY. ]

[constellationprize]

Mn, but he isn't loved by you any more or less for having been "yours," is he? Rather than that, aren't both of them equally yours?

[glidinglight]

Are they?

[ In a way it makes sense right? They're both technically genetically related to her. They're just.... different timeliness.]

[constellationprize]

Aren't they? As long as you're able to love them as your own, then isn't it fine to call them yours? Even if I ended up meeting my siblings in another place, and it was found that they failed to recognize me - them, or my parents, or my lovers, or anyone like that - it's a little bit like ...

[ she hums a bit, thoughtful, and then seems to think better of whatever comparison she had in mind. ]

Mn, well, that man and I are probably in a strange situation right now, so maybe it isn't very good to use his mathematics in that way, but - . . . If it is a person that I have felt yearning for within my heart, then I could love any version of them that would exist in any world.

It's the same for you too, isn't it?

[glidinglight]

I'm not exactly a good sister. I'm not... very good at loving or giving love.

[ Her predisposition seems to be getting snarky, suspicious, and sarcastic. ]

Maybe I'd just be a disappointment twice over.

[constellationprize]

Mn, but that isn't really what was said, is it? More than what you believe that you're capable of, Lumine -

Do you love your brother? Um, not just as a fellow human or anything like that, but if you look into your heart, what you feel is a yearning to be with that person again, isn't it? If that's true, then isn't the rest of that fine?

[glidinglight]

I think I do? I don't--I barely know him, but...

[ But he is her brother, and he did care about her. And if she said she didn't care about him at all, that would be a lie. ... Maybe a big one, even. ]

I guess I do.

[constellationprize]

Then isn't it fine? If that's the way that you feel, then the one that was here, and the one that you knew before - both of them are "your Aether," aren't they?

[glidinglight]

Yeah. They're both my Aether....

[ It still feels a little weird to say, but not nearly as jarring to consider as before. Maybe this was what he'd meant when he said he really didn't care which Lumine she was--she was still 'his.' ]

[constellationprize]

Mm. So -

Loving them both is fine, isn't it? You don't need to worry - okay?

[glidinglight]

Yeah. I'll try not to worry about it anymore.

[ At least she should worry less, anyway. ]