[ Ai stares at him for just long enough for it to feel a little piercing. She's just a human and there's nothing her eyes can do to see past deception like those of a fae and yet, just for a moment, her gaze gouges just a little too deep. It looks so horribly like understanding.
Both are correct. "Ai of B-Komachi" is a pure and perfect idol but without a performer to play her role, she doesn't exist. She's just a concept, defined purely by her contrast to the dirty, broken woman who pretends to be her.
Finally, she nods. ]
I think I get it. [ She understands entirely too well. ] It's not one or the other. It can't be.
[ Her hand drifts up again but this time, she curls the strands of his fur stole around her fingers. ]
So I'll handle both of them.
[ And though she certainly doesn't know that she's said it - maybe she doesn't even think or feel it in any way conscious enough to even be aware - her words come shot through with a bright and horrible truth even so.
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Both are correct. "Ai of B-Komachi" is a pure and perfect idol but without a performer to play her role, she doesn't exist. She's just a concept, defined purely by her contrast to the dirty, broken woman who pretends to be her.
Finally, she nods. ]
I think I get it. [ She understands entirely too well. ] It's not one or the other. It can't be.
[ Her hand drifts up again but this time, she curls the strands of his fur stole around her fingers. ]
So I'll handle both of them.
[ And though she certainly doesn't know that she's said it - maybe she doesn't even think or feel it in any way conscious enough to even be aware - her words come shot through with a bright and horrible truth even so.
"So I'll love both of them." ]