#so anyway atlas still managing to a little dodge the sacred star thing but u know ... if he yeets all of that power he gets to

[hmrtia]

❓+ what lengths are you willing to go to to get that happily ever after you so desire? › @galeleads

( SEND ❓+ A QUESTION AND MY MUSE HAS NO CHOICE BUT TO ANSWER TRUTHFULLY / accepting! )

much of his life, atlas had not thought of what it meant to have a happily ever after. he had lived the life of a student / alchemist / soldier- and he had lived for others. selfless in the most destructive ways! atlas had been the hero of creta / hero of milos (but that was not his title to have or to keep- he had been a storm leaving destruction in his wake and he had called that the act of a savior!), and now he was ...

out of place, perhaps, except for one place / her arms were a comfort, her heartbeat a grounding force. he had grown selfish, hadn't he? and it was not so awful in the end / not so monstrous as he had feared! what lengths are you willing to go to, asks the windborne alchemist, to get that happily ever after you so desire?

yes, he knows desire, now. he wants to live as any other would live. he wants to escape the war and allow his heart to settle. ❝ have i not already gone to great lengths for it? i bear my heart openly so that she will never doubt me. i have made my peace here so that i may focus on what is to come. ❞

❝ there is a house in table city- it was once the home of a doctor and his son. i have written letters already... so that when this war is over, we will be able to leave every sorrow of the past behind. but to escape the war, i know there will be much that i will have to sacrifice. ❞

he thinks of the sacred star that has kept him young and strong / a weapon of the military / an alchemic wonder. he no longer worries that she will lose interest in him even if he no longer is such a mystery- because she loves him. qistina leota loves him, and aurora hahn is no fool. she knows of his love / a secret he has no longer tried to bury. ❝ if the sacrifice allows me to simply live as any other would, then it will not be so horrid, will it? i will give up that which has made me creta's hero- i am weary of battle- i have learned that i must take time to heal. soon, this will be over. ❞