ITP: An old joke

[no_longer_a_king]

[Text; Anonymous]

What is love?

How do you know if you love someone? Is it really as powerful as they say?

(ooc: In before someone makes this joke. Feel free to threadjack and such in response to this.

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[Text, Anonymous]

[chronomancer]

The moment you realize you'd give up your entire life to give someone just a tiny, fleeting moment of genuine happiness, and you wouldn't feel cheated at all for it.

So yeah, it can be sacrifice. It's also fear, that you're not good enough and they'll leave you once they realize it, or that they'll be hurt and there won't be anything you can do about it. And I guess it's a weakness, that way, because you don't really care about yourself if it's for their sake, and it's stupid and irrational and you just can't stop. You don't want to, either.

I don't know if it's powerful, or what you define as powerful. But you'll know, when you feel it. You'll know and it'll hurt and it'll scare you, but you might just be lucky enough to come out of it better off because of it.

Assuming anon/text until otherwise noted for both.

[no_longer_a_king]

[Hurt her and scare her and desires for a fleeting moment of happiness despite everything? Fear of not being good enough, that he'd be hurt and--

--it's almost scarily how she felt ever since Shirou started making those proclamations at her from the beginning. So scary it takes her breath away.]

What do you do if you hurt the person you love and you can never apologize to them?

ekfjgsdfg, this got lost in the depths of my inbox, sorry!

[chronomancer]

<span style="font: bold 1em Courier, monospace;>I don't know. I guess you just have to make sure you don't hurt them again. And then you live on and try to do things the way they would have wanted you to.