To be brutally honest? ...I suppose so, yes. If only because he hasn't done anything to hurt me, so far. It would be difficult to view you exactly the same, after everything.
I am not entirely certain, but I believe he is unaware of the events that led to my arrival. Although, being from an alternative timeline... I wonder if he might've glimpsed pieces of it in his own visions. Clairvoyance lies within my capabilities though it is far from my specialty.
[It's why the timeline Hakuno introduced him to was vaguely familiar beforehand, but only in a dreamlike sort of way, scattered and hazy and unclear.]
If that is the case, then perhaps he had less reason to thrust his anger upon the world, as I did.
Well, he did snooze away among the sins and evils of humanity on the Far Side for a few thousand years. It might be whatever glimpses he had just mixed in with memories of that, while he was dozing.
[She tilts her head, and shrugged.]
He didn't seem very angry at all, though he didn't seem to have many issues with grabbing me and blasting lightyears away from it all, either.
The last memory I have of the world I left behind is my death and the cold dark that followed. He may call it pleasant sleep, but for myself, it was positively wretched.
[And it is unpleasant to recall, but out of some buried sense of fairness, he digs for the truth.]
That I might meet you shortly thereafter... however pitiful, perhaps it was also inevitable I sought something bright to extinguish that endless sea of black.
There's one Grail per universe, right? The human I was based from might be alive in your world, and she might not be sick, either. ...but, if that Grail were to try and create me, I don't think you'd be happy with the end result.
[...Hakuno. Hakuno, that's probably not... what he meant...]
...I let you in, because I want to believe that eventually, you'll be able to inspire that feeling in me too, without the sick, clawing anger I sometimes need to choke back when I think of you. Because there was a time when you did make me happy, very simply and without second thought.
[A brief window, after their moment with the flowers and the bloom of memories the dreamscape had unleashed upon them.]
Because you, of all people, apologized. That much will get the window open.
[Gilgamesh was born prickly, but in spite of this the gods created him tactile and sensitive. To deny him touch is to deny him the only real connection he could possibly hope to have with someone, or at least he has always thought so—that is also why he climbs through the window, because even he recognizes that it will otherwise be lost to him forever.
To that end, it is the little things that matter. When her fingers rest upon his ears it soothes a thousand aches words simply cannot reach, and she will feel him sag with relief.]
May he guide us all.
[Regardless of their spats, their arguments, their differences and their denials, Enkidu would serve as an anchor for them, just as he had all those years ago.]
[Hakuno, as ever, knows where to hit exactly to do the most damage. AS the eternal underdog, those instincts, desperate and quietly brutal, are how she has survived, time and time again. ...well, that and sheer dumb luck.
She cut him, as deep and as roughly as she could, with a simple, inelegant stonewall. But even then, she isn't a cruel person by nature, so the gentleness seeps through the cracks here and there.]
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He has caused me a great deal of grief. Certainly, a superb form, but I could easily do without everything else.
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[Reassuringly:]
It is alright. I would hear it from you, the truth.
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[Unless... is he asking about sex, this time?]
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[It's why the timeline Hakuno introduced him to was vaguely familiar beforehand, but only in a dreamlike sort of way, scattered and hazy and unclear.]
If that is the case, then perhaps he had less reason to thrust his anger upon the world, as I did.
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[She tilts her head, and shrugged.]
He didn't seem very angry at all, though he didn't seem to have many issues with grabbing me and blasting lightyears away from it all, either.
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[He doesn't look ashamed, but rather his eyes have that faraway quality which suggest he is thinking very deeply indeed.]
But it is for the best, for the both of you, that any Gilgamesh who betrays himself in so sordid fashion be rejected in one sorely swift.
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...I feel a degree of affection for you.
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[Too clever by far.]
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[And it is unpleasant to recall, but out of some buried sense of fairness, he digs for the truth.]
That I might meet you shortly thereafter... however pitiful, perhaps it was also inevitable I sought something bright to extinguish that endless sea of black.
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[...Hakuno. Hakuno, that's probably not... what he meant...]
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[There. There it is.]
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[A brief window, after their moment with the flowers and the bloom of memories the dreamscape had unleashed upon them.]
Because you, of all people, apologized. That much will get the window open.
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[He states as much, but...]
There is no happiness I inspire outside my obligations. There is no happiness I expect outside the culmination of my plans.
[...it's a little hard to believe with everything that has happened.]
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[She reaches up and gently rubs his ears.]
Your brother is here, after all.
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To that end, it is the little things that matter. When her fingers rest upon his ears it soothes a thousand aches words simply cannot reach, and she will feel him sag with relief.]
May he guide us all.
[Regardless of their spats, their arguments, their differences and their denials, Enkidu would serve as an anchor for them, just as he had all those years ago.]
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[Hakuno, as ever, knows where to hit exactly to do the most damage. AS the eternal underdog, those instincts, desperate and quietly brutal, are how she has survived, time and time again. ...well, that and sheer dumb luck.
She cut him, as deep and as roughly as she could, with a simple, inelegant stonewall. But even then, she isn't a cruel person by nature, so the gentleness seeps through the cracks here and there.]
...so, after Humbaba?
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