unpopular opinions

Do you think people are too sensitive? Or that Superman isn't so super? Think cats aren't cute? The Beatles are overrated? Love pineapple on pizza? Maybe you just don't like chips rly. Even the best of us have some controversial opinions. Let people know what a monster you are.

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to tell them why they're wrong, validate a kindred spirit, or just troll them for caring about such a silly-ass thing in the first place.

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Would your father have accepted a no? Your brothers? You are not without blame but it is not as simple as any single choice. And maybe those gems inspire madness, I have never seen them and I suspect I won't but all who behold them seem ready to burn the whole world to keep them close.

I used to think he could never be so cruel, he loves us, he made us with his own hands, gifted us beyond that of any other save the ainur. [And yet...] I cannot get past that there is no way to get out of such an oath but through suffering even more. That is not the hand of a loving father. The lesson has been long ago learnt, including by those who had no hand in it.

I do not think my yelling at you would improve the situation for either of us. You were so young and your father was... Fëanor. [More like an elf 1.5 than a regular elf. A force of will beyond most elves to resist, especially any who craved his approval.]

He'd have disowned me, that much I'm certain of. Many of my brothers likely would have never spoken to me gain, but if I had refused Kano would have as well even Moryo might have if I plead my case well enough. They do, they have a part of my father in them after all, he was always good at inspiring such things in others.

Perhaps he does love us, but would that love be enough to keep him from hurting us as well, if he thought it necessary? After all, what are we to him? No larger or more significant to a being of that size than an individual ant would be to us.

I was old enough to know better. I should have known nothing I did would ever be enough for him.

It is not that I disagree that you were grown, or should have known better, or any of it. It is that I know you loved your father and craved his love in return, as would any child.

You are not innocent, but that doesn't mean the primary blame lies on your head either. All your brothers were grown, none refused. I suspect for the exact same reason.

I will always be your friend, Maedhros. [She was definitely going to regret that at some point, but that didn't make it false.] Your darkness and misdeeds do not frighten me.

And how foolish I was to do so. All those years I wasted trying to get his approval would have been put to better use if I only could have realized sooner that I would never get what I wanted from him. How many people would be alive now if only I had been a less loyal son.

I'm not sure if any of those involved in this can be said to be any more or less guilty than anyone else.

As you will always be mine, little though I deserve a friend like you. They frighten me enough for both of us... I never thought myself capable of such things before they had already happened.

Fondness makes me wish to argue otherwise, but I cannot. [She would not lie in such matters to him, even when it seemed the gentler path. He would see through it, and she would be a worse friend for having tried.]

Nor was I assigning anyone more blame than the other. Just that you, being eldest, did not deserve more, either. Though it seems you will bear it anyway. [His father, yes. But the sons were equally cursed with a want of their father's love as far as she could tell and pigheaded foolishness had befallen every single one of them.]

Friendship is not about what one deserves. Outside of a certain tall elf, no one wanted me to dislike you more than myself. And I should, and you should frighten me. But I see you, and if our friendship has an unhappy end then that is how it goes, but the time that we have had has been worth it to me.

It is something I have somewhat come to terms with. [He'd had to or he would never have been able to move forward, he'd have been stuck in an endless spiral of regret instead.]

I suppose so. I always seem to hoard it when it comes to me and my brothers, I've always done so even when we were younger and our sins not so great. [He'd always tried to shield them from any harm that came their way, even the things they brought upon themselves.]

It has been for me as well. I hope it has a happy ending for you at least, I doubt there is such a thing in my future.

Edited 2022-10-15 22:58 (UTC)

[Mithiel sits there, quietly for a few minutes, maybe longer. Idly she turns his hand over so she can trace the lines on his palm. It was a soothing focus in a stormy conversation. She wanted to blame him for nothing. And everything. She knew in her heart both that she so often came to sit beside a man who was perilous, who would stop at nothing to fulfil his oath or protect his brothers, and had stopped at nothing for those things long before they met.

She also knew in her heart that even if she was wrong to trust him, for reasons of fate, she was right about his fëa. That though shadowed, there was still light, sweetness, things that made him entirely trustworthy that shined past the shadow and so often lit up his eyes. If not for those stupid gems he might have lived his life merely covering up for his brother's ill manners. She would never have met him, but he would have been happier and longer for the world.]

There is only ruin for both of us then, but I would still befriend you again, in a heartbeat. [Mithiel would surely live, and it seemed probable that Maedhros would not, so she would have to learn to live with that when the time came.] When our paths diverge, I will not forget, or regret, a single moment. [She only wished that the grief didn't feel so real now.]

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