“ name one hero who was happy. “
the song of achilles meme // not accepting
❝ YOU MEAN A hero of Overwatch or just a hero in general? ❞ Anakin casts an arch expression of consideration in Reyes’s direction, eyes drifting through the wilderness && the dance of migrant shadows. The kind that can reap havoc on your sense of balance. Disconcerting enough to demand small talk from the silence.
But there’s no comfort to be found in shared anxiety, && the leaden apprehension in his bones refuses to budge, like they’d set entropy in motion by leaving the base.
Out here they’re susceptible to the soft decay of corruption, showing the spider’s web at the center of their dubious existence. An intricate network of lines && lies, all leading back to a single unequivocal truth: Overwatch isn’t && will never be enough.
So what hero is happy? Knowing there will always be another soul to save, another war to wage. Pain && chaos will prevail no matter the small measures of peace they’re able to eke out in between. There’s an infinite hopelessness in heroism, && it’s been getting harder for Anakin to ignore.
Bitterness rises in him like bile, scrabbling at the tenuous limits of his self-control. Anakin sits taut, poised on hair-trigger impulses as he scours the area for movement. The light from the fire at the center of their makeshift campgrounds encases him in an unsteady silhouette, && stretches his smile into something sharp && unkind. It’s hard to make out when his lips start moving again.
❝ What about Gerard? He seems pretty happy, especially after getting married— what’s his wife’s name again? ❞
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