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alina starkov, 20

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[boneblood]

Something that feels like a lifetime ago.

Before I came here, I separated paths from someone I loved when they decided they no longer wanted me around. Before that, though - there were good times. When he would return from trips away, he would bring me things. Books were one of my favorites.

[sunmon]

Who was he?

[boneblood]

[He debates his answer not because he wants to neutralize it so much as he doesn't want to just dump it on Alina; however he does consider her a friend and so he doesn't detract any of the facts for her sake, heavy as it can potentially get:]

Wil, my maker. He made me in an image he considered ideal, and after a few decades he didn't like me anymore. Mostly because I wasn't actually the person he tried to copy.

[sunmon]

Your ... maker?

[boneblood]

Yes, quite literally.

"From bone and ash and his own blood" if I recall correctly.

[sunmon]

Like a parent?

[boneblood]

Like a man obsessed with someone else and full of magical talents.

[sunmon]

So you're not human.
I didn't realize.

[boneblood]

Not inaccurate.

[But he'd like to be human, tries to consider himself such.]

It's not a secret but it's just not something I bring up often.

[sunmon]

Sorry.
I didn't mean to pry.
It doesn't sound like a good memory.

[boneblood]

It's fine. I actually like being able to talk about it, it probably does me some good.

[Like may be exaggerating it a little - but it does feel... better?]

It's not the greatest, but there were good moments.
I think that's the worst part of it?
When you've loved someone and things have changed, but you miss what was.

[sunmon]

Or what it might have been. What you wanted it to be.
I know the feeling.

[boneblood]

Our mutual gravitation towards books seems to make more sense now.

[sunmon]

It's a good way to get a break from your own life.