[Sometimes the human he was now flickered into something else; the self-sacrificial nature of Ardyn Lucis Caelum would flare up in a brief desperation to burn himself out protecting this family. Other times Ardyn Izunia would be a splash of gasoline on smoldering embers of the hatred and spite and rage that ended a planet.]
[He wasn't really sure he remembered what defined 'human'. He didn't know those flickering moments were something flawed in Tenmyouji Ardyn, showing the cracks where he'd put himself together--or if that was just flawed humanity in itself.]
[But the hands that finished a braid exactly as he'd seen Vandeae do every morning for over twenty years were gentle and cautious; not the perfectly delicate touch of a healer, and not the careless touch of a murderer.]
Forgive me. I'm talking too much, aren't I?
[And the hand that took Yuuri's--the other arm that rested light around her shoulders in an uncertain hug--were undoubtedly the warm and living flame of a human life.]
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[Sometimes the human he was now flickered into something else; the self-sacrificial nature of Ardyn Lucis Caelum would flare up in a brief desperation to burn himself out protecting this family. Other times Ardyn Izunia would be a splash of gasoline on smoldering embers of the hatred and spite and rage that ended a planet.]
[He wasn't really sure he remembered what defined 'human'. He didn't know those flickering moments were something flawed in Tenmyouji Ardyn, showing the cracks where he'd put himself together--or if that was just flawed humanity in itself.]
[But the hands that finished a braid exactly as he'd seen Vandeae do every morning for over twenty years were gentle and cautious; not the perfectly delicate touch of a healer, and not the careless touch of a murderer.]
Forgive me. I'm talking too much, aren't I?
[And the hand that took Yuuri's--the other arm that rested light around her shoulders in an uncertain hug--were undoubtedly the warm and living flame of a human life.]