Third Crusade

[stardust_legacy]

... Mother's day got me thinking...

I'd like to talk about mothers, if you've got a minute. Love them, hate them, don't understand them. Anything. I just... need to get this out of my system.

That bastard's gone... he won't win.

Comments

[weiss_tank]

I've got a minute if you want to talk, you sound like you need it.

[stardust_legacy]

Not really.

[weiss_tank]

Well, as for your comment about mothers...I don't remember mine very well, but I like to imagine her sometimes, you know, warm, kind, caring, full of candy and hugs.

[stardust_legacy]

That's what most try to be.

[passes_out]

I was thinking on it as well. What I thought was my wife came out to be someone quite sadistic in nature with a strong taste for the masochistic. The pain she inflicts is not the physical kind but the emotional kind and this is in her nature that cannot be stopped.

[stardust_legacy]

... That's not really what I was talking about.

[passes_out]

[He sighs and pauses.]

I know.

[He really wanted to avoid talking about his own mother but now it was nearly unavoidable.]

I loved my mother....dearly.

[stardust_legacy]

... Most do.

[bornwithskison]

...As far as I know, I've never had a mother. In my family--Our weird... Union, I usually filled that role. Actually, since I grew up. I'd take care of children back home, and eventually I raised my own brother when I found him as a small child. Fed him, helped him bathe when he needed it, told him stories to sleep, made sure he had warm clothes and tended to him when he was sick.

[stardust_legacy]

... Sounds like you were good at it.

[bornwithskison]

I wouldn't know exactly. I was taken away from him in the early 1800s, but he seemed fine when I saw him again in the 1900s. Even now he's fine, save for a little economic cold in 2008. I was doing everything I could when I had the time to check up on him. He's here, but he's from a different time period if that makes any sense.

[stardust_legacy]

Sort of, I guess...

[wristsniper]

What about mothers?

[stardust_legacy]

Anything.

[wristsniper]

My mother is strong and proud. She has a high nose and a faultless temperament. She's the one who convinced father to let me try for the estate, originally, back when I was still a teenager.

She never made me do anything I wasn't wholly committed to doing.

[stardust_legacy]

Sounds like she was good at it, then. Being a mother, I mean.

[ahoge_goddess]

Parenting is forever.

[stardust_legacy]

Tch...

[ahoge_goddess]

Well it is.

[stardust_legacy]

Parents aren't forever.