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fourwingedwriter · 2 months ago

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There's a certain type of grief only immortals are really privy to.

Sure, there's the jarring reality of living longer than everyone you will ever love, but what about being the only one who will ever remember them?

They meant nothing to the world and will always mean nothing, but to the immortal? They were the world. They were everything. They were love, sadness, grief, joy. They were life itself and now they're nothing. Less than nothing.

An immortal is simply a record of all they have loved, all that is lost to the world.

#the thoughts got to me #thinking about grief again #and immortals #and world changing events #the most normal people make such an influence and they're just gone.#even if they were in the middle of a war. in the middle of a revolution. in the middle of a reform. they were just a person #the tree remembers and the ax forgets. but even the tree decomposes eventually #immortal whump #whump #whump ideas #whump tropes

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