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wtowingedtragicobsidian · 3 months ago

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Characters who need to make themselves believe the ends justify the means. Forcing it down their throat, again and again and again. Till its second nature, till its addiction. And maybe the ends don't feel so pressing anymore, cus who knew the means could be so good.

#the pragmatic idealist burdened with both responsibility and hope #who lets their morals corrode over each compromise desperately reinforcing them with more and more questionable promises they cant keep #till they wear a crown of Machiavellianism set heavy like a gravestone #and when they finally let themselves indulge in the hedonism of the delusion #its not bitter like they expected #the Stockholm syndrome from their hand crafted cage long since set in #it feels like freedom #mori ougai #geto suguru #im not sure if this makes any sense #but i love this type of character #who sees it clearer than anybody else does #and takes it on even though its not theirs to take #and laughably they get it fkn wrong #and it breaks them #so they just stew in the absurdity of all the vain sacrifices and all the ends they drowned trying to pursue #and they force themselves to love the burn in their legs as they tread water cus they know they arent trying to swim to shore anymore #not really

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