hearts meme!

[necrolord]

a hearts symbols meme

1. post a blank comment for your character
2. copy and paste symbol + meaning
3. enjoy your bounty of emojis

❓
I want to understand you.

😏
I would flirt with you.

💗
I would date you.

💋
I would kiss you.

🍆
I would have sex with you.

🤝
I would fight by your side.

⚔️
I would kill for you.

💎
I want to protect you.

⭐
I look up to you.

💢
I'm angry with you.

💀
I'm afraid of you.

😈
I want to mess with you.

🖤
I would use you.

🔪
I would hurt you.

🦑
I would kill you.

💛
You're my friend.

💕
I love you as family.

💖
I love you as a partner.

Comments

[martyrofduty]

It was, but we made it together. That was the best we could do.

[justoscar]

And were you able to talk with him at all?

[martyrofduty]

We had clear communication before he ascended.

OP
Not once.

[justoscar]

... I don't know what you mean by Ascended. But, that sounds really lonely.

Is-- is any of it better now?

OP

[martyrofduty]

We have never communicated since he became a lyctor. Ten thousand years ago, roughly.

OP

[justoscar]

Ten thousand--

I can't even imagine that many years-- or being alone for that long!

OP

[martyrofduty]

It is both a blessing and a curse that I do not remember it all. What I do is enough.

OP

[justoscar]

Guess we have to find blessings somewhere...

But, what happened you your husband? Why are you here and he's not?

OP

[martyrofduty]

In some ways, I have low standards for good days.

He died six months ago, the same day Augustine did. Augustine is here. He is not. I don't know why he isn't here. He likely didn't come here with me because we were no longer in the same body.

OP

[justoscar]

I didn't know any of your people were dead...

But, wait. How did you two stop being in the same body?

OP

[martyrofduty]

It's complicated.

He died. My soul was left behind in his body, which kept it alive too.

OP

[justoscar]

That sounds.... Very scary.

I'm glad you made it here, then. It's different. But... You can be yourself.

OP

[martyrofduty]

It was infuriating (not at him).

That is also complicated.

OP

[justoscar]

... I don't understand. How?

OP

[martyrofduty]

Our situation was different from yours. Him learning I was alive probably would have killed me—against his will.

As was referenced in the call out post, what happened to the cavaliers is a source of tension. Had my continued existence come out, it would have had the same effect.

I would be okay dying, but I refuse to wound him so profoundly. I would rather live another ten thousand years as I already have.

OP

[justoscar]

Gideon said a lot of things in that post. I don't what it all means, either.

But, I think even one of the people I had the hardest time with back home would be impressed with your... your Mettle.

[He paused, frowning. It was so like him to find someone else that had a frightening commonality with James Ironwood.]

Not many people could handle that and come out as solid as you have.

OP

[martyrofduty]

No, but to those of us who were there, it's a lot more clear. Even to our friends that were not, it would be if they were here.

I did what I needed to do to be able to live with myself. I don't know that I would have made it any other way.

Oscar, I appreciate the sentiment, but I am not solid. I am so much less than I once was, and I have lost so much of myself.

OP

[justoscar]

Well. At least here you've got the chance to build yourself into something new.

-- if you want it, I mean.

That's what my friends and I are doing. Maybe life goes on in Remnant... but the last memories we have there are pretty bad. The kind of bad that makes you not want to risk seeing more.

OP

[martyrofduty]

It's... something, here.

In my experience, life goes on. I had the worst day of my life, the kind that does not feel like it will go on or that you want to see more. But. There was a kid. So, you keep going.

OP

[justoscar]

... that sounds like the core message from one of our fairy tales from Remnant, one about a king that despairs over a terrible choice.

He stumbles on a woman he had met years before-- one he doesn't recognize, but who went to him for help after she lost her family in a disaster. She gave him the same advice he gave her years ago: that he must keep living despite not knowing what to do.

I know that's how I'm supposed to feel about home and what we're doing, but that's hard.

Harder than I imagined. That's why I want to stay here.

OP

[martyrofduty]

You don't need to feel guilty for staying here. You made the choice to come here. Once here, well, if it were possibly simply to go home, John would have, and Trench wouldn't be quite what it is today. We can only live where we are.

For you, that's living here. For the you in the future back home, that's living there. That's what's most important.

OP

[justoscar]

Yeah... I know.

I keep trying to remember that when things are hard here. Or, I try to stay focused on my goal of making this place better in case anyone else from Remnant shows up.

[That was why he helped the Wakers at all-- and how he stumbled on Pyrrha. He was looking out for people that he knew... And there were more than he could count on his hands. ]

OP

[martyrofduty]

It's good of you to make it better for their sake. It's good enough to make it better for those already here.

That's what I'm doing.