Bellelurette: Yoru

[perfectpower]

scoops up Soup's boy

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[diel]

Can’t you? I feel like a promise like this is one of the most important ones.

[ some things are worth the risks. ]

… Two seems like a good number.

[ fifteen is… a lot. ]

A big one and a little one. They’ll never be lonely that way.

[perfectpower]

[Just gonna side-step the promises for now.]

Yeah, two or three is a good number. My dad had so many because he wanted a wizard kid to live out the centuries with him, but then he went and died before I was even an adult. I don't care if my kids are human or wizard, I'll love 'em regardless.

[He won't be like his shitty dad.]

[diel]

Do you wish you had known him better? Lived out the centuries with him?

[perfectpower]

Well...he was good to me, but ignored my human siblings. If I had grown up around him, I might've turned out the same way. Then I wouldn't have met Nero or anyone else.

So...I dunno. I do miss him, but I like the life I have now.

[diel]

[ yoru’s only known his own shitty dad, who was horrible all the time to him and his sister. so… fathers could be kind and cruel all at once… hm… ]

You say… human… so wizardry is by chance? Wait, do your human siblings live as long?

[perfectpower]

It depends. If both parents are wizards, then the kid'll be a wizard too. But my mom was a human, and most of the time a wizard and a human will have a human kid.

[As for the rest...Brad just rubs at the back of his neck.]

Mom 'n my brothers 'n sisters were all human, and they lived normal human lives. They all passed away before I was 100.

[diel]

Oh…

[ he’s lost his entire family. ]

But it sounds like they’re still in your heart. Even when you’re in your thousands, I hope you don’t forget.

[perfectpower]

Yeah, I definitely won't.

[Even hundreds of years after they passed, he still loves them dearly.]

[diel]

[ he smiles a little at him, nothing like the wide smiles he’s had before. he wants to believe him. ]

Bradley, will you… be able to live through the heartbreak of losing a human child?

[perfectpower]

...I lived through burying my mom and my siblings. And their kids, and their grandkids, and great-grandkids. I know it's not the same as losing your own kid, but I think I'm better prepared than most are.

[diel]

[ for the first time, yoru understands the depth of bradley’s years. ]

Mm… I think I underestimated you. Should I apologize?

[perfectpower]

Nah, it's fine. Everyone has their own struggles nobody knows about. I can't blame you for feelin' a way before you knew anything.