you cannot buy protection from the way that i feel

General Audiences | No Archive Warnings Apply | Xenoblade Chronicles 3 (Video Game)

Gen | for mellythird | 100 words | 2023-02-19 | the lamb | AO3

Sena (Xenoblade Chronicles 3) & Lanz (Xenoblade Chronicles 3)

Sena (Xenoblade Chronicles 3), Lanz (Xenoblade Chronicles 3)

Drabble, Inspired by Music, Source: Genesis, Source: Peter Gabriel

Careful consideration has revealed to Sena that it's not only a sense of individual identity she lacks (read: slacks on). As bombastic - stereotypically larger-than-tiny-in-life - as she presents (Comet Mallet? Meteor Smasher?), her fears swallow what she feels about not just herself, but others, too.

So...sometimes it just falls out.

Conversation about the paradigm-shattering City norms, everyone dancing around priorities and definitions, had produced:

"I love you, Lanz! Like, a lot! And I'm not gonna let anybody make me feel bad for saying it!"

"...why would anyone make you feel bad for that?"

"I don't know, and I don't care!"