She makes it sound, once again, so simple, when he's spent so much of his life pretending to be something he isn't, wearing what he needs to be as protective armor to survive. To win his way to something that always escaped his grasp at the last moment. But here, he isn't just the last Avgin, he isn't one of the Ten Stonehearts. He'd felt guilty for that at first, like he'd been hiding that side of himself, but when she puts it like that...
He hasn't really been Aventurine, here. From the first moment, it had been different. A mini fresh start, like Maya had called it.
...Maybe his profile was onto something. ]
...Would that be a gamble worth taking? For you.
[ For her, for Nico, for anyone who's decided to care about him. ]
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She makes it sound, once again, so simple, when he's spent so much of his life pretending to be something he isn't, wearing what he needs to be as protective armor to survive. To win his way to something that always escaped his grasp at the last moment. But here, he isn't just the last Avgin, he isn't one of the Ten Stonehearts. He'd felt guilty for that at first, like he'd been hiding that side of himself, but when she puts it like that...
He hasn't really been Aventurine, here. From the first moment, it had been different. A mini fresh start, like Maya had called it.
...Maybe his profile was onto something. ]
...Would that be a gamble worth taking? For you.
[ For her, for Nico, for anyone who's decided to care about him. ]