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“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life... You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love.”

- Neil Gaiman, The Sandman

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He glared wordlessly at the card, feeling his throat tighten. This was--- no. He quickly put it in a pocket, refusing to look at it, and strode away from the fortune teller without a word.

The card would not come out of his pocket until much later, when he had a drink in one hand and was prepared to study it in closer detail. The card was hard to look at.

Weakness /scared/ him.

The card would be hidden in a textbook in his room, hopefully where Xanvi would never look.

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My entry for OI's new Fortune event. Yes, oh man, look at me, drawing OI things still. Hello.

The card's a bit vague, but it's like that on purpose. Nor understands it - it's only for him to understand. His weakness is basically Xanvi, and as cheesy as that sounds, it's true. In case you couldn't tell, that noose around his neck is Xanvi's scarf. I loosely kinda based this off of a reversed Hanged Man tarot card.

Nor's a normally selfish Nobody who wouldn't stick his neck out for anyone, not even his friends; he's obsessed with self-preservation and keeping himself separate from other people and his person his own, just so no one can use anyone else against him.

He spent so long distancing himself from everyone so he would never have anything to lose.

But now he does. His existence is tied to Xanvi's.

And to him, that's a terrible weakness.

Description
“Have you ever been in love? Horrible isn't it? It makes you so vulnerable. It opens your chest and it opens up your heart and it means that someone can get inside you and mess you up. You build up all these defenses, you build up a whole suit of armor, so that nothing can hurt you, then one stupid person, no different from any other stupid person, wanders into your stupid life... You give them a piece of you. They didn't ask for it. They did something dumb one day, like kiss you or smile at you, and then your life isn't your own anymore. Love takes hostages. It gets inside you. It eats you out and leaves you crying in the darkness, so simple a phrase like 'maybe we should be just friends' turns into a glass splinter working its way into your heart. It hurts. Not just in the imagination. Not just in the mind. It's a soul-hurt, a real gets-inside-you-and-rips-you-apart pain. I hate love.”

- Neil Gaiman, The Sandman

-----

He glared wordlessly at the card, feeling his throat tighten. This was--- no. He quickly put it in a pocket, refusing to look at it, and strode away from the fortune teller without a word.

The card would not come out of his pocket until much later, when he had a drink in one hand and was prepared to study it in closer detail. The card was hard to look at.

Weakness /scared/ him.

The card would be hidden in a textbook in his room, hopefully where Xanvi would never look.

---

My entry for OI's new Fortune event. Yes, oh man, look at me, drawing OI things still. Hello.

The card's a bit vague, but it's like that on purpose. Nor understands it - it's only for him to understand. His weakness is basically Xanvi, and as cheesy as that sounds, it's true. In case you couldn't tell, that noose around his neck is Xanvi's scarf. I loosely kinda based this off of a reversed Hanged Man tarot card.

Nor's a normally selfish Nobody who wouldn't stick his neck out for anyone, not even his friends; he's obsessed with self-preservation and keeping himself separate from other people and his person his own, just so no one can use anyone else against him.

He spent so long distancing himself from everyone so he would never have anything to lose.

But now he does. His existence is tied to Xanvi's.

And to him, that's a terrible weakness.