Wanyin had really been through a lot. People always wanting him to be their image of him rather than accepting him for who he was. It was a feeling that made his heart ache for how much he understood it. So when it came to an end, Riley reached up with his other hand to gently cup the man's face and smiled softly before he looked out over the frozen water they'd been skating on.
"A lot of my origins I only found out recently but I was born to one of the two leaders of the Fae, the Unseelie Queen. Ashamed of having given birth to a sickly and dying child, she pretended to never have had me and swapped me with a human baby so I could die there instead. My parents were able to get me well again though and I lived a normal life. Even when my magic started developing at sixteen I didn't really think anything of it. Just a coincidence in the world around me."
He took a deep breath as he continued. "When I was eighteen the Fae realized that I hadn't died and they started to come after me. Even though they hadn't wanted me as a child suddenly they wanted to force me to be what they wanted, to pick one of the Courts to serve. To try to force my hand they've killed a lot of people that I love right in front of my eyes. The Unseelie Queen herself even came and hurt Will badly trying to get me. They've never cared that I don't want the life they're forcing on me, I don't want to be the person they're trying to force me to be."
But that was just in his world. There was more. So much more. "I was brought here before Will was and before I even knew that the Queen was my birth mother. Around that time I met P'Kinn and I got close to him quickly but I also met someone named Xie. Xie was brought here injured and I would visit him every day in the hospital and every day after he was out. We got really close and I definitely developed feelings for him. Well, eventually he went to live with someone from his world named Baiyi. I got to meet him too and I guess I was too modern for him and he apparently had feelings for Xie. He got upset and...left for days. Xie and I didn't know what to do but I confessed to him and Xie was interested in me too."
He paused there just to take a breath, wanting to get through this without getting upset. But it was definitely painful for him.
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"A lot of my origins I only found out recently but I was born to one of the two leaders of the Fae, the Unseelie Queen. Ashamed of having given birth to a sickly and dying child, she pretended to never have had me and swapped me with a human baby so I could die there instead. My parents were able to get me well again though and I lived a normal life. Even when my magic started developing at sixteen I didn't really think anything of it. Just a coincidence in the world around me."
He took a deep breath as he continued. "When I was eighteen the Fae realized that I hadn't died and they started to come after me. Even though they hadn't wanted me as a child suddenly they wanted to force me to be what they wanted, to pick one of the Courts to serve. To try to force my hand they've killed a lot of people that I love right in front of my eyes. The Unseelie Queen herself even came and hurt Will badly trying to get me. They've never cared that I don't want the life they're forcing on me, I don't want to be the person they're trying to force me to be."
But that was just in his world. There was more. So much more. "I was brought here before Will was and before I even knew that the Queen was my birth mother. Around that time I met P'Kinn and I got close to him quickly but I also met someone named Xie. Xie was brought here injured and I would visit him every day in the hospital and every day after he was out. We got really close and I definitely developed feelings for him. Well, eventually he went to live with someone from his world named Baiyi. I got to meet him too and I guess I was too modern for him and he apparently had feelings for Xie. He got upset and...left for days. Xie and I didn't know what to do but I confessed to him and Xie was interested in me too."
He paused there just to take a breath, wanting to get through this without getting upset. But it was definitely painful for him.