evaluating the damage ? breakdown?

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THE RETURNED

golden eastern dragon & black jaguar w/ vitiligo. god of war - ancient. bai shi lynn lingré. proper chinese name is lin bai. prefers lynn if close. they/them. blind. wind element & electric element. firstborn son of jerisidie lingré & current head of family. demiromantic gray-asexual. traveler.

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cold were the words she spoke, but a truth they had known from so very long ago. if they were to come back, they already would have. they would be back beside them now, and they wouldn't be falling apart at the seams, held only together by the weak breaths of their avian companion. they had seen too many residences rise and fall, too many faces with them. sephiroth and the rosebloods, elysium, palm glades, alithis evgenis ... too many to count and hold onto. too many damn dead and missing. laughter shaking their frame, "what is family, if not a weakness we cannot see?", they growled as they swung their head in the undead's direction before exhaling and inhaling. fuck being proper and right. it was time to let the pain out, "if they were going to come back, they already would have. we're on our own, poor bastards that we are.", they snorted in a growl-laugh, growing quiet as they'd heard the ghost of a sob from her, "but all the same, despite being a weakness, they are often things we wish to care about, alive or dead or missing."