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🦀 Thanks Anon for this Cinder request.
My request are open !
Romantic relationship if you squint hard. I hope it's angsty enough
Bonne lecture Anon ❤️
- You and Cinder have been friends for a long time. He's always kept things from you. Even to you, he hasn't said anything about his connection to the former master of smoking.
- But he always respected you, an achievement in itself without the shattering gong.
- He took care of you in his own way. Watching from afar how you fought, caring for you in secret away from prying eyes, asking how you were doing. And most of all, going to look at the stars with you.
- It's been a habit since the beginning of your friendship.
- Knowing if Ras isn't asking too much of you; after all, you're their ninja.
- You have to be their ear and their eyes.
- But even then, you didn't see the ideas behind the gong.
- The first time, you didn't notice the difference. You'd noticed the gong had left him a little cold. Like an internal battle. But he was there for you. From afar...
- Cinder isn't a kind-hearted man; he had his moments to love and hate.
- The more the gongs ring, the more you see the difference between the one you know and the one you no longer know...
- One day, he wanted to fight you, and to say you were surprised was an understatement. Because he never wanted to fight you. Not even out of obligation.
- One day he wanted to fight you, to say you were surprised was an understatement. Because he never wanted to fight with you. Not even out of obligation.
- The blood, that's what was on your face. He wasn't friendly to you. It was a kind of death.
- Alone, you healed yourself. You no longer understand your friend.
- He didn't come to look at the stars with you anymore. It was a special moment for you. But maybe to him, it was all just pity for you.
- You mourned the loss of your only friend in silence. The stars lulled you into an uncomfortable sleep.
- You couldn't see him anymore, being a horrible character in front of your eyes without being able to do anything.
- So, you left.
- He noticed, but he didn't say anything.
- Maybe deep down there was the same thing you have. Now repressed.
- It was just too much for you. It was self-destruction.
- You tried to talk to him about it, but he just slapped you, saying words as sharp as a razor blade.
- Then you meet the ninjas. And you tell them about your friendship with Cinder and the gong.
- One night, he went looking for you in a semblance of "friendship" that hadn't yet burned out. To talk to you. And apologize.
- But what he saw was everything he would have preferred never to see.
- You with that green ninja, talking and laughing. He had vomit in his mouth.
- Something tells him to get away from you. For your own good. Just like he always wanted.
- Kissing the shattering gong forever.