June Catch All

[inheritance]

WHO: Izuku & others
WHERE: Around the town!
WHEN: Throughout June
WHAT: Quests, meet ups, FRIENDSHIP, everything ever
WARNINGS: None for now!

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[sirnyxalot]

[It's something Nyx wouldn't wish on anyone, and later on he's definitely going to regret this. Izuku's bright and imaginative enough that he wouldn't be surprised if the kid could picture what happened. No one deserved that.

There's a muscle twitching in Nyx's cheek as for a moment he can only force harsh breaths through his nose. He's not quite all there anymore, lost in remembering what happened. He can still hear her voice, screaming his name; can still feel her body grow limp and empty in his arms as he watched the light leave her eyes.]

I tried to go back for her. She needed me and I couldn't save her. I'd left her behind and she died.

[inheritance]

[Even if Nyx regrets it, Izuku definitely doesn't. He'd rather have the image stick with him--unhappy as it might be--than let Nyx have to suffer and carry all of this on his own.

Izuku can't stop himself any longer. He'd held back at first, not knowing if any gesture like this would be appreciated from someone older and much more experienced than he is in well, life in general. But it feels wrong to sit here and do nothing when reliving these memories is causing him so much pain.

So Izuku gets onto his feet, takes a step or two closer to Nyx, and then leans down to wrap his arms around him in a hug. His own tears spill over as he grieves alongside Nyx, for the girl who had smiled so happily in that photo.]

I'm so sorry.

[sirnyxalot]

[Nyx stiffens in shock, unused to being hugged and his spell releases, pitching them back into darkness. After a moment of hesitation, he throws dignity to the wind and accepts the comfort. Inhaling sharply, he hugs back, resting his forehead on Izuku's shoulder, and lets go; his shoulders shake as twelve years of grief is reopened in full.

His crying is still silent, too accustomed to holding back to do more than let his tears fall, but something loosens that he never realized was caught tight in his heart. He hadn't had time to open up fully to Lunafreya back home, never told her what happened way back when. Now that he's told someone it's like a circuit is completed. The words Luna told him that last day and being accepted here despite his failures...

He doesn't have the words to express how he feels. He knows Libertus never judged him, had tried his best in his own way to help, but Libs had his own nightmares and grief to deal with. It's different with people who've only met him as he is now.]