Making yourself unhappy...that won't make what they're going through any easier.
[This is mostly true. It won't fix their intangibility and identity issues.
It might give them vicious satisfaction, in a vengeful sort of way, to make sure everyone is unhappy in the same way as they are...
...but Atem's not going to allow that. The other monsters don't get to take what Ryou does have, what he's sacrificed a frankly immense amount of potential power for, away. They don't get to destroy other people's scraps of happiness, found against the odds in a horror setting, because they're sad too.
The tendrils gently nudge Ryou upright, towards his bed.]
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[A hand strokes through Ryou's hair.]
Making yourself unhappy...that won't make what they're going through any easier.
[This is mostly true. It won't fix their intangibility and identity issues.
It might give them vicious satisfaction, in a vengeful sort of way, to make sure everyone is unhappy in the same way as they are...
...but Atem's not going to allow that. The other monsters don't get to take what Ryou does have, what he's sacrificed a frankly immense amount of potential power for, away. They don't get to destroy other people's scraps of happiness, found against the odds in a horror setting, because they're sad too.
The tendrils gently nudge Ryou upright, towards his bed.]
Leave it alone. Come to bed.