[In a way, that sincerity is harder to deal with than the alternatives. Than being pushed away, snapped at. There's a sting to the ease with which Hades believes it, at the way there's really just- well. Nothing to be done about it, for either of them.
Maybe he'd have preferred it if Ellie was right about him being an asshole about it.
It doesn’t matter how fond you are, or how much you want it, Astarion had said to him, once. The universe, as I’m sure you already know, has its ways.]
I am not blind to the reality of the situation, either, I know you do not...
[Hades shakes his head, there, exhales a slow breath.]
I could tell. I never intended to make mention of it.
[Why, when he already knew what would come of it at best, and didn't know what could come of it at worst? But better this than leaving it at that earlier sharpness in his tone, letting him assume worse for a certainty.
He doesn't mind others thinking it of him. He would mind it of Astarion.]
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[In a way, that sincerity is harder to deal with than the alternatives. Than being pushed away, snapped at. There's a sting to the ease with which Hades believes it, at the way there's really just- well. Nothing to be done about it, for either of them.
Maybe he'd have preferred it if Ellie was right about him being an asshole about it.
It doesn’t matter how fond you are, or how much you want it, Astarion had said to him, once. The universe, as I’m sure you already know, has its ways.]
I am not blind to the reality of the situation, either, I know you do not...
[Hades shakes his head, there, exhales a slow breath.]
I could tell. I never intended to make mention of it.
[Why, when he already knew what would come of it at best, and didn't know what could come of it at worst? But better this than leaving it at that earlier sharpness in his tone, letting him assume worse for a certainty.
He doesn't mind others thinking it of him. He would mind it of Astarion.]