>>34540962slow progress on the Shion fic. But I'm chipping away at it.
Bonus: Yes, and incredibly cringe, but I will still recycle the idea for future works.
>>34530367I seriously fucking love this trope, so I'll share an excerpt I wrote that I may or may not apply in a future story
"Happiness and Sadness. Joy and Sorrow. Hope and Despair. Two sides of the same coin. Imperfect, yet whole. That is the reality of our lives. You cannot enjoy one without suffering the other, and I know this well, almost too well. That is why I will bear the burden of that pain and pleasure. I will bear it all, for that is what it means to live. You who are my reflection, we both took on this power to change the world for the better, for we have suffered under its innumerable cruelties. The only difference, is that you shed your flaws, hoping to find solace in the extremes of perfection, but I embraced my weaknesses, my struggles and grew into the person I am now. We were cut from the same cloth, given the same ideals, yet here we end up as completely different beings, standing against each other like reflections in a mirror. If you call yourself the personification of perfection, the alpha and the omega, the beginning and the end, then I am the journey, the road that stretches past the horizon, the path which all of us walks, unknowing in its length and destination. But I will pave that road for those who will come after me, just as those that walked before me. I am the culmination of every beings' desire to forge ahead, to continue walking despite everything. Your fate was sealed the moment you claimed your divinity, but mine is still unwritten, and let me make this clear, I am the one who holds the pen."
