[we'll never find out how this sentence ends bc it's memshare time
You’ve lived your life in solitude. You work hard everyday, spend late nights at the office at the accounting firm, and you don’t interact with others. Your relationships have faded into the background, and most of your days, you only have enough time and energy for a game. The relationships that unfold on the screen are beautiful and loving, even if they are not yours. You think that there’s probably more to life, but you don’t have the wherewithal to find it. Maybe one day your life will end up finding you, and there will be something better than this.
Or maybe it’ll end suddenly - and begin again so intensely that it’s dizzying.
“You” - the 28-year old accountant from modern day Japan, a recluse who lacked friends but made up for it with familiarity in otome games. (Did that really make up for anything?)
Iris - the 16-year old disgraced daughter of the Duke of Armelia, desperate to escape her future of being locked in a nunnery after her fall from grace.
This is your judgment.
You watch the love of your life (because that’s what he was, wasn’t he?) condemn you in favor of another girl he met just months ago. You watch your brother, your blood relative, insinuate that you are anything but weak and for once this is not a compliment. You feel yourself held down for subjugation by a young man three times stronger than you, lambasted for asserting your engagement over a girl who was stealing everything from you.
How ready they are to label you the villainess in this story.
You maintain your dignity - you walk away on your own two feet, if only because you know that no one else will come to save you.
You realize in this moment that there is nothing sweet about love - not when it can destroy a person so immediately. To place hope on something as fleeting, as incorporeal and impossible as love will only lead to ruin.
Maybe that’s what “you” and Iris have always had in common -
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[we'll never find out how this sentence ends bc it's memshare time
You’ve lived your life in solitude. You work hard everyday, spend late nights at the office at the accounting firm, and you don’t interact with others. Your relationships have faded into the background, and most of your days, you only have enough time and energy for a game. The relationships that unfold on the screen are beautiful and loving, even if they are not yours. You think that there’s probably more to life, but you don’t have the wherewithal to find it. Maybe one day your life will end up finding you, and there will be something better than this.
Or maybe it’ll end suddenly - and begin again so intensely that it’s dizzying.
”So I will not apologize, I will not allow you people to rob me of anything further.”
Two consciousnesses exist in this body now.
“You” - the 28-year old accountant from modern day Japan, a recluse who lacked friends but made up for it with familiarity in otome games. (Did that really make up for anything?)
Iris - the 16-year old disgraced daughter of the Duke of Armelia, desperate to escape her future of being locked in a nunnery after her fall from grace.
This is your judgment.
You watch the love of your life (because that’s what he was, wasn’t he?) condemn you in favor of another girl he met just months ago. You watch your brother, your blood relative, insinuate that you are anything but weak and for once this is not a compliment. You feel yourself held down for subjugation by a young man three times stronger than you, lambasted for asserting your engagement over a girl who was stealing everything from you.
How ready they are to label you the villainess in this story.
You maintain your dignity - you walk away on your own two feet, if only because you know that no one else will come to save you.
You realize in this moment that there is nothing sweet about love - not when it can destroy a person so immediately. To place hope on something as fleeting, as incorporeal and impossible as love will only lead to ruin.
Maybe that’s what “you” and Iris have always had in common -
No one ever really loved you anyway. ]