What else is there? Trying to pretend to be someone who I no longer am? Taking up the throne that in theory belongs to me, and ruling through the terror everyone has of me? Simply leaving? My absence has hardly done the world any favors either, because without a clear, final ending, my shadow remains.
[ even after a thousand years, people believed in his return whether in fear or in anticipation.
it's one thing if the world tears itself apart on its own. it's another if it does so because of him. ]
Put aside your sympathy. I have done and will do terrible things. Terrible things have been done in my name. I am the harbinger of a fate that has already come to pass, threatening the present of another time with the inevitability I represent.
Short of meting out everyone's endings, which I imagine you and most everyone else here would disapprove of, I am the one thing I can control in its entirety. [ a shrug, then. ] Don't think I haven't considered the circumstances. I can admit that perhaps I am the piece that needs to be removed from the board.
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[ even after a thousand years, people believed in his return whether in fear or in anticipation.
it's one thing if the world tears itself apart on its own. it's another if it does so because of him. ]
Put aside your sympathy. I have done and will do terrible things. Terrible things have been done in my name. I am the harbinger of a fate that has already come to pass, threatening the present of another time with the inevitability I represent.
Short of meting out everyone's endings, which I imagine you and most everyone else here would disapprove of, I am the one thing I can control in its entirety. [ a shrug, then. ] Don't think I haven't considered the circumstances. I can admit that perhaps I am the piece that needs to be removed from the board.