[ he shrugs a little because his fears do not matter at the moment. instead, this story matters because he also sees a lot of the parallels, and he does not like that. it's similar, isn't it? having to inherit even the worst parts of holstrom just to be the same person (the parental abuse, for one, and the isolation for another.) though torture is... bad. torture is bad, and he frowns as he mulls over this. ]
And he doesn't remember being that guy, right? Just someone with this power they don't know what to do with. How did he get out of that prison? [ is he okay now? that's the unasked question. ]
He wasn't supposed to. But the memories were passed along to him, along with Imbibitor Lunae's power.
[ the emotions here are restrained, if not complex. usually they would not be able to be detected at all, but given the nature of the week there is some very faint traces of anger here, and melancholy. perhaps some guilt as well. dan feng had been very dear to jing yuan. and though he has now accepted dan heng as someone else entirely, it is not as if the past can be so simply erased.
but that is not something he gives voice to, mindful of all kiraman has just told him. ]
...It took far too much time, but his release was eventually negotiated for. He is doing well enough, last I saw him.
[ there are some... inevitable complications given his canon point. but otherwise dan heng is a free man now, and surrounded by those who genuinely care for him. ]
[ ... it's kind of nice there are emotions felt here, actually, because it means this actually does matter. that jing yuan realizes how messed up it is that someone other guy's life was foisted onto dan heng, and what that means for him for the rest of his own life.
on the other hand, thank you for not voicing it, yeah. not when kiraman himself still often thinks about the way the woman posing as his mom, who raised him for eighteen years, called him by the wrong name the night (the original's name) the night he finally left home, begging him to stay because he was meant to bring some sort of salvation. ]
... glad to hear it. Probably wouldn't be fair to blame him for something he didn't ask for. [ ... ] But it was also probably difficult to know for sure he wouldn't follow the pattern if everything transferred when it wasn't supposed to.
[ he's still 100% on dan heng's side of this, but in general he can see the issues. ]
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And he doesn't remember being that guy, right? Just someone with this power they don't know what to do with. How did he get out of that prison? [ is he okay now? that's the unasked question. ]
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He wasn't supposed to. But the memories were passed along to him, along with Imbibitor Lunae's power.
[ the emotions here are restrained, if not complex. usually they would not be able to be detected at all, but given the nature of the week there is some very faint traces of anger here, and melancholy. perhaps some guilt as well. dan feng had been very dear to jing yuan. and though he has now accepted dan heng as someone else entirely, it is not as if the past can be so simply erased.
but that is not something he gives voice to, mindful of all kiraman has just told him. ]
...It took far too much time, but his release was eventually negotiated for. He is doing well enough, last I saw him.
[ there are some... inevitable complications given his canon point. but otherwise dan heng is a free man now, and surrounded by those who genuinely care for him. ]
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on the other hand, thank you for not voicing it, yeah. not when kiraman himself still often thinks about the way the woman posing as his mom, who raised him for eighteen years, called him by the wrong name the night (the original's name) the night he finally left home, begging him to stay because he was meant to bring some sort of salvation. ]
... glad to hear it. Probably wouldn't be fair to blame him for something he didn't ask for. [ ... ] But it was also probably difficult to know for sure he wouldn't follow the pattern if everything transferred when it wasn't supposed to.
[ he's still 100% on dan heng's side of this, but in general he can see the issues. ]