The door closes. And despite the finality of the click of the lock, Eddie still half expects it to swing in again, blown open with tears and regret and second chances. He stares at it. The same way he stared at Shannon’s broken body and still expected her eyes to flutter open, her lungs to fill with breath. Just like then, no miracle comes to save him and, just like then, Eddie’s own heart goes so still in his chest that he’s not sure if it’s still beating.
Unlike then, there’s no next step laid out before him. No papers to sign, no plastic bag of belongings to clutch in his hand, no well-trod path of other mourners to follow and to imitate until he’s capable of choosing a direction for himself again.
Eddie stares at the door that doesn’t open and his nerves start to cry out in a panic that something is wrong, everything is wrong, he might be dying, he should be dying, he’s fucked up so completely that there’s no coming back, followed the siren song of his own grief down to the depths and dragged Christopher along behind him. He can’t breathe. He can’t breathe. Why can’t he-
A sob cracks the quiet, wretched and shrill and heavy with the weight of snot and tears like he’s already been crying for hours, crying for years.
And the hand on Eddie’s shoulder that, until now, has let him stand, holding him up, not rushing him into turning away and admitting the miracle isn’t coming, finally grips a little tighter. That comforting weight makes him sob again and when Buck says, “Eddie,” in a voice as soft as a caress, Eddie dissolves entirely.
He lets himself be turned into Buck’s chest and cradled like a child and he clings like one. His fists full of Buck’s shirt and his pain too big to hide behind any kind of pride.
Eddie weeps. For himself. For Christopher. For the past and for a thousand futures he’ll never get to have. He cries until he’s lost to himself, until his knees grow weak and he should be crumbling to the floor. He does crumble. But he never falls.
Buck’s arms circle his back, holding all of the pieces of Eddie together. His voice is a soft rumble in Eddie’s ear, the words lost under the sound of Eddie’s tears but their message as clear as a simple, familiar prayer.
“It’s going to be okay.”
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yea the scene when cad greater restorations the orb out of fjord is still unspeakably cool to me. its so ghibli , like so fantastical anyway but then cad reaches his hand out to fjord and lichen starts growing from his fingertips. their hair is swirling about in the storm, they both fall onto their knees in a weird writhing painful trance . and then fjord coughs up gallons and gallons of seawater and a big heavy rolling crystal . the whole thing is animated like a ghibli movie to me. like them gathering the orb up in cloth(?) so no one touches it is so chihiro chasing that little slug zeneba cursed or something, to me .
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RAGHH I LOVE U CHAI THIS GAME IS SO GOOD :D
Sorry for not drawing/ posting, this game has consumed my life as well as fallout new Vegas
this took hours oof
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🎶 I got chiiiills they're multiplying - I hear you call my namee - only youuuuu - bye bye don't wanna be a fool for you - it's a DAAAMN COOOLD night trying to figure oouuuut this life - just like a prayer - you better shape up cause I need a man - your voice can take me there - trying to figure OOOUT this life won't you - I'm down on my knees I wanna take. you. there - DON'T WANT THE WORLD TO SEE ME - don't need MONEY don't take FAME don't need no credit card - you're the one that I want (you are the one I want) - 'cause I don't think that they'd understaaand - I wanna see you out that door baby - lady in reeeeed is dancing with meeeee (cheek to cheek) - take me by the hand take me somewhere new - life is a mysteryyy everyone must stand alone - who can keep me satisfyeeed - I hear you call my name and it feels like - I'M WITH YOUUUU - I just Want you to know who I ammmm - just like a dream you are not what you seem just like a prayer - you may hate me but it ain't no lie - take me by the hand take me somewhere new - your voice can take me there - whoohoohoo honey!! - it's STRONG and it's SUDDEN and it's CRUEL sometimes - just like a prayer no choice YOUR VOICE CAN - bye bye bye (bye bye) - and it feels like hoooome - when everything's made to be broken - you better shape up - you may HATE me but it ain't no lie - when you call my name it's like a - 🎶
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