There are so many reactions to this video. It is something he couldn't even imagine. By the time he realized how much he would want something like this with her, he'd all but convinced himself she didn't feel the same and then his life exploded, both of their lives exploded. It is amazing to him that they could end up like this in one version of their world while they said goodbye forever in his own, and it-- There was no making sense of it. It was always going to feel wrong and horrible walking away from her. Impossible, painful decisions that linger on, and he doesn't have any idea of what awaits him, the terribleness or the eventual joy down the line too, the light that he will discover after endless darkness.
He won't know his own conflicted feelings being so happy for her (but still being twisted up in his chest in ways that he-- that he already knows even if he'll still never say them, because the past is in the past and she is happy in ways he has never seen her before, smiling, laughing, wanting). There are many beautiful stories for them both to have, and he will be very happy for the story he has when he gets to that part after the darkness with the light and the happiness, the one that also brings him back to her too even if things are different too. Like O!Ethan is very glad that his story is his own too, and Ethan is-- he is glad that there is a story that goes like this for them even if it isn't his and even if that makes his chest ache too.
He smiles at her as they share another drink and they fight away the burn, laughing at what she says. "We've even got the accents to go with so it's even more appropriate. Ethan. S. Ethan." He says that in his best James Bond voice, which is admittedly pretty good. Ethan looks over at her with a tiny smirk at that curious tone-- demandingly curious tone. "...are you sure you can walk let alone do things on this ship right now? Not that I won't tell you what all there is to do. There's a lot, and I haven't fully explored yet. Don't think it's possible."
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He won't know his own conflicted feelings being so happy for her (but still being twisted up in his chest in ways that he-- that he already knows even if he'll still never say them, because the past is in the past and she is happy in ways he has never seen her before, smiling, laughing, wanting). There are many beautiful stories for them both to have, and he will be very happy for the story he has when he gets to that part after the darkness with the light and the happiness, the one that also brings him back to her too even if things are different too. Like O!Ethan is very glad that his story is his own too, and Ethan is-- he is glad that there is a story that goes like this for them even if it isn't his and even if that makes his chest ache too.
He smiles at her as they share another drink and they fight away the burn, laughing at what she says. "We've even got the accents to go with so it's even more appropriate. Ethan. S. Ethan." He says that in his best James Bond voice, which is admittedly pretty good. Ethan looks over at her with a tiny smirk at that curious tone-- demandingly curious tone. "...are you sure you can walk let alone do things on this ship right now? Not that I won't tell you what all there is to do. There's a lot, and I haven't fully explored yet. Don't think it's possible."