Round Two: Seven Deadly Sins

[just_jasper]

Until January 13th

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Round Two Rules:-The theme of this

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[trigger warning for suicide] and best of all without blame, pg-13

[anonymous]

He was alone at the end. Family all gone. Friends all past. He was left with no one to say goodbye too.
(But he was alone long before that)
And in those last years he would fault them all for leaving him in his time of need.
(Never once remembering all the cries he ignored. All the pleas that served him no purpose.)

Gideon had never been good with relationships. Relationships took work, and he had forgotten how to give. He would always remembered how to take.
But it was much more than that. It was an unshakable problem. A fear. A complex. He had forgotten how to be a human. To be breakable, vulnerable, riddled with flaws.
And he would blame the monsters he hunted because it could never be his doing. It was only his problem, inflicted by someone, somethings, else.
(He had become too great in his own mind. He had long since moved past the point of mistakes)
(He was without fault and, best of all, without blame)

When he was a young man, he was invincible.
When he was an old man, he was perfect.
There had been a moment in between where he had accepted his humanity. He had been something a little less than perfect. It had been painful and heartbreaking and but an instant in his life. But to someone it must have counted…
(There had been a moment where he had poured as much blame as he could onto his shoulders.)
(But then the weight got to be too much and he shook it all off. Traded it for an unbreakable shell.)

At the end, he would take his own life.
There was something about control and fear and blame and life all muddled up in that one sentence, but he couldn't think about that for too long.

But he would hope that others felt the blame. It was horrible, but it had to be entirely their fault. He would carry no blame for his actions. He could never carry blame for his actions. And in all ways he had made sure of that
(But he should have though.)
(And he never had the courage to try.)

Re: [trigger warning for suicide] and best of all without blame, pg-13

[just_jasper]

Interesting take on the prompt. Thanks for posting!