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stillprettyunoriginal · 3 months ago

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Names are so vital. So important and held to who a person is and gods Claude who has known Jericho through being far closer to Simon than himself now; through Jericho and the taking of his FACE through having to take in the mind of bloody fucking Martin. If names bring power, what sort of humanity does it draw out of a person when they’ve seen you try on a good couple. Maybe I’m just in my own head about this but truly, there are versions and layers of learning and change to the Jericho we know now, and after a certain point? If we move past his childhood? Claude has been there for nearly all of them besides the tubs. When he lost Kassie there was someone else and this one hasn’t LEFT through his learning and hasn’t died through him stumbling into the world and overall at his side. He has truly been one of the people closest to him. One of the closest you could get, at the very least, when you wear the face of a tormentor and feel your gut twisted by their own memories of their hatred of you or how you her them, and you can’t remember a world without that hurt. I’m never going to heal from these two I swear it.

(also the taking of Martin’s face is destructive to my mental health rip someone please save me it ruins me every time I remember it, n WONDER he had brother issues dude)

#city of blank #like seriously tho imagine being Claude and watching this man you died for break down #as he has to relive memories of his own torment THROUGH THE ASSAILANTS LENS. Like wtf dude I’d lose it #Claude is sat there at his side. Likely still helping coax him into showers as he’s growing skin.#Likely helping him find ways to stay clean and get up in the morning. Claude knows how to clean up without the energy for a shower #we’ve all been sad like that before. He gets that. He knows that. And fuck I hate how his apathy likely trained him for this #for helping someone take little steps into a world that has never welcomed him and actively hurt him #to teach him humanity and whatever he would let himself be taught. To grow into himself and not just into Martin’s skin.#AND THEN he watched him heal from being blown up and was there in the jungle shit and likely as Jericho’s red blank space came in like that #like. He has seen SO MANY VERSIONS of this man and stuck around for each one #i fucking love him. Symbol of bloody loyalty. Through thick and fucking thin. He has supported Jericho since the dawn of his second life #and he’ll continue to do so in as much time as the world will give him. No matter if it costs him an arm and a leg #or his family. Or normalcy. Because he doesn’t want normal he wants jericho. And that man is always pulled away from normal #by the very same world that has told him since birth that “normal” isn’t achievable for him #im actually distraught over them like im gonna sob i blame 66 this shit is too good #root rambles #jericlaude #claude cob #jericho cob #kinda long mb

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