[He knows it's cheating, he's pretty much borrowing Leanne's techniques to get him to soothe and talk openly as well as blatantly aiming for something he suspected. That if he remembered Marco their meeting by now would be having a far different tone. It wouldn't bother him so much if not because it was clear the other needed it... And that's kind of scary, that he could see that so easily despite not knowing Marco, despite not remembering him.
Makes him feel that if he knew the man he would be noticing it far more.
He listens in silence as Marco explains, the only reaction he shows is when his frown increases at the mention of Ares. There's no doubt that Marco knows him and this is probably something they have already talk about, at least Marco and that other Ikki, because it doesn't seem like Marco would draw the connection of Mars and Ares otherwise. He wishes he would remember, so he would know what he had said back then, had he helped Marco? Or had he made it worse?
Marco said he needed his help so it seemed as if he had helped him but... He's Ikki, the phoenix. The man who would give up the world a thousand of times before giving up on a brother. If that Ikki considered Marco a brother... A brother that may as well be the vessel for the god of war, even if it's in another world, that hardly makes a difference for him. Except that maybe he's not a vessel, maybe he just is. It's not like with Shun where there was his brother and then there was Hades, but closer to Saori, who was born to be Athena, who was born as Athena, and only given another name when she had to be taken away to protect her life.
Now he gets it, why Marco wanted him. Why Marco needed him. Because he can understand that, even leaving aside the idea of the gods, he can understand the wish, the want to just... Make the whole world burn. Not explode but burn. To see it destroy itself from the inside out, little by little but without pause, until there's nothing left, until it's all just ashes and to not give a damn about it. About having caused it, about having allowed it. If the world hurts you, just hurt it back a thousand times more, until it doesn't just regret having hurt you but regrets having come to exist to begin with.
What did the other Ikki tell Marco? What did he feel? What did he think when Marco first talked about this? Was Marco feeling so much at the edge as he's feeling now? He doesn't know, he can't know and... He can't go without answering this. He can't wait to see if he will recover those memories or if there's a way to find out. And even if he could? He doesn't want to, because fuck that other Ikki, fuck that other world. It's him here right now, the Ikki that married Leanne, the Ikki that has tried to bend the universes themselves to his whims. Can he help Marco? Yes, he can, there's no doubt of that. No, the doubt, the real question is... Can he help the world against Marco if the others' fears come to be?]
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Makes him feel that if he knew the man he would be noticing it far more.
He listens in silence as Marco explains, the only reaction he shows is when his frown increases at the mention of Ares. There's no doubt that Marco knows him and this is probably something they have already talk about, at least Marco and that other Ikki, because it doesn't seem like Marco would draw the connection of Mars and Ares otherwise. He wishes he would remember, so he would know what he had said back then, had he helped Marco? Or had he made it worse?
Marco said he needed his help so it seemed as if he had helped him but... He's Ikki, the phoenix. The man who would give up the world a thousand of times before giving up on a brother. If that Ikki considered Marco a brother... A brother that may as well be the vessel for the god of war, even if it's in another world, that hardly makes a difference for him. Except that maybe he's not a vessel, maybe he just is. It's not like with Shun where there was his brother and then there was Hades, but closer to Saori, who was born to be Athena, who was born as Athena, and only given another name when she had to be taken away to protect her life.
Now he gets it, why Marco wanted him. Why Marco needed him. Because he can understand that, even leaving aside the idea of the gods, he can understand the wish, the want to just... Make the whole world burn. Not explode but burn. To see it destroy itself from the inside out, little by little but without pause, until there's nothing left, until it's all just ashes and to not give a damn about it. About having caused it, about having allowed it. If the world hurts you, just hurt it back a thousand times more, until it doesn't just regret having hurt you but regrets having come to exist to begin with.
What did the other Ikki tell Marco? What did he feel? What did he think when Marco first talked about this? Was Marco feeling so much at the edge as he's feeling now? He doesn't know, he can't know and... He can't go without answering this. He can't wait to see if he will recover those memories or if there's a way to find out. And even if he could? He doesn't want to, because fuck that other Ikki, fuck that other world. It's him here right now, the Ikki that married Leanne, the Ikki that has tried to bend the universes themselves to his whims. Can he help Marco? Yes, he can, there's no doubt of that. No, the doubt, the real question is... Can he help the world against Marco if the others' fears come to be?]