ravenry: (61)
liu shouxue | 柳 寿雪 ([personal profile] ravenry) wrote2024-02-25 06:12 pm

luke catchall

why is there so much official art of him in bondage, pixi

rav3n: (luke46)

[personal profile] rav3n 2024-03-25 06:05 am (UTC)(link)
[That's good to hear, at least. Luke isn't afraid to be assertive or aggressive if he feels it's necessary, but this wasn't anything like that.

It's a little funny, though--she isn't the first person to ask him that question.]


It's just something I had to do. [...But she's seen him cold and cruel, hasn't she? She deserves a little more than that.] He killed someone I wanted to protect. Even knowing it wasn't really him--I couldn't just let that go so easily.
rav3n: (luke101)

[personal profile] rav3n 2024-03-26 06:35 pm (UTC)(link)
[Luke doesn't answer right away, seemingly focused on whatever he's building. But after a few moments, he sets down the items in his hands, leaning back in his chair to look at her properly.]

Why are you asking me this, Shouxue? [His tone is calm, idly curious.] Is it because you can't understand my thinking, or because you're angry with me for doing it?
rav3n: (luke99)

[personal profile] rav3n 2024-03-30 11:28 pm (UTC)(link)
[Luke studies her for a little while, as if assessing the truth of her words, or maybe just thinking of how much truth he wants to share himself. Finally, he tips his head back.]

It's the same reason I'd accept people being angry with me. [For lying to them about being okay, or for causing them pain during the curfew, before his death.] No matter our reasoning or what was within our control--in the end, people still got hurt. That can't be changed, and it can't be undone.

Margaret lost her life. She can't ever get that back. [He does not know they're in a murdergame and will be revived.] I guess... I just wanted him to know what that means. How much it hurts.

[It very much was still an angry, emotional action; Luke has just had eight years of practice honing his control, and he had time to calm down before Dion arrived. He wouldn't have midtrialed, but he definitely would've had to be pulled off of Dion, had he been alive.]

I don't dislike him. I'm not happy that he's dead, even if I'm glad his mind is clear now. But I... it's hard for me to be okay with someone who hurt somebody I wanted to protect. This was the best middle ground I could find.