lightthedarkness: (Usagi) (What if I fail?)
Usagi Tsukino ☾ Eternal Sailor Moon ([personal profile] lightthedarkness) wrote in [personal profile] oldhound 2022-03-09 06:48 am (UTC)

[She looks at John and lets out a breath. He's not entirely wrong. Maul does a lot of things where he thinks he's owed it. She's yelled at him plenty of times for relishing playing the monster and then being shocked when people call him one. Maul constantly tried to take the short and easy path when it suited him, and redemption was neither short nor easy.

But she had no clue Hell, literal Hell awaited John, and that idea sounded... so desperately, deeply sad.

Why did he deserve that for all eternity? Why did anyone ever deserve that for eternity? Even Chaos, even Galaxia beings who had killed and destroyed the lives of trillions merely found themselves in the Cauldron once more, maybe one day being reborn, maybe never being reborn. Eventually, one day, someone who was their literal opposite would find herself in the same fate.

She wishes she were there beside him, to hold his hand, to stand by him in silence, to... something if only to offer him more support than just what the Omni can give him. But she also doubts her being there would offer him any sort of comfort.

Softly, and much more importantly in her mind, she says:
]

I know it may not mean much, but I don't think you deserve literal Hell when all is said and done here or back home.

[She's not TRYING to change the subject. She's not trying to make this about John instead of Maul, she just legitimately feels John does not deserve the fate that awaits him.]

I know that hole, the one you mentioned inside of Maul. I've seen that hole many times, I've seen people just like him, people, as you suggest, like you too, who would see the whole universe completely destroyed because maybe the power they gain or the destruction they cause will fill that hole.

And we both know, it can't and doesn't.

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