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[lovelyredthread]

[ He quiets a bit at the question, possibly telling in his hesitance ]

Doesn't feel like someone that unconditionally nice could exist.

[ He reminds him of Eternal Sugar before her fall. He's not sure he thinks that degree of kindness is safe. ]

I guess I'm worried. I don't know how to act around him. And he's important to you, so...

[ He can't afford to mess up. He knows his place is much lower than his father's other half ]

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They very often don't, and if they do, not for very long.

[They fall, or they break, or they die. That's usually the fate of such people. Shadow Milk had tried to do one of those to him, and he'd nearly succeeded. Twisting, squeezing his soul in his hands until he snapped. Until Truthless had been all that remained.]

[Truthless brings forth complicated feelings in his chest so he banishes that quickly.]

You needn't worry about such a thing, Cherub. He will love you regardless, that is his nature. Besides, no Other-Half of mine would not be won over by your charms! I encourage you to get to know him. You might ...find him familiar. I see a lot of myself in him, from long ago.

[And perhaps that had been why he found Vanilla so unforgivable at first. Because he saw the Fount in him. That poor miserable wretch.]

[lovelyredthread]

[ He's quiet a moment. He can't lie, he does see a lot of the past in Pure Vanilla. And maybe that's what makes him so scary. The threat of it being taken again. The idea of that care twisting into something sinister.

He knows Pure Vanilla repelled that once. He knows what happened in the spire having read it himself...

But fear is an irrational thing and things can always get worse. Pavlova sighs and hides his face in his father's side ]

... You know I love you, right dad?

[ They've had this conversation before, about whatever mask he was wearing, he still loved him. It feels like it bears repeating now that Pure Vanilla's returned. ]