( picture prompt meme )

[socketeer]

the picture prompt meme I — Comment with your character. II — Others will leave a picture (or two, or three...) III — Reply to them with a setting based on the picture. IV — Link to any pictures that are NSFW, please. V — Be aware that this meme will be image-heavy. Link to an image: <a href=IMAGEURL>TEXT</a> Embed image in your reply: <img src=IMAGEURL> Image width and height: <img src=IMAGEURL width=500> OR <img src=IMAGEURL height=INSERT>

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[eruit]

You would send me to monks.

[ It should surprise him that Genji had travelled away with monks and learned how to meditate in a way far different from how they had been taught as children. It's frustrating to imagine Genji having this long life while Hanzo mourned and suffered, but it is no less than he deserved. This is what had been coming to him from the moment that he had allowed himself to kill his brother, and penance is something he is still working towards.

Frowning, he considers. ]

Overwatch or Shambali. I see.

[needshealing]

[Genji laughs, a tinny, synthesized sound, and he grins at Hanzo under his faceplate.] I am not sending you anywhere. It is an offer.

[His life is not Hanzo's life, and he doesn't expect Hanzo to make all the same decisions he has. He only wants to help him, be there for him in a way he perhaps needs more than anything else, right now, and so the cyborg will simply offer what little he can give. Protect him in whatever little ways he can.

Genji moves back over to his brother and crouches in front of him, placing a hand on his shoulder.]

If you need a place of safety and peace, they will accept you. And because it is my home, I will never be too far away.

[eruit]

[ The laugh makes something inside him soften, and Hanzo pauses for a long moment because he's able to muster words again. ]

An offer to meditate with monks.

[ It's not said scathingly, this time, at least, and Hanzo shakes his head before he turns his attention to Genji and Genji alone. They will part ways soon, he thinks, even as Genji settles in front of him, touches him again, as if no time has passed, and he wonders if he will be able to survive knowing his brother is out there in the world and he is so far from him.

He finds he wants to be near Genji, no matter how much he loathes himself, no matter how much he is undeserving. ]

I will consider it... Brother.

[needshealing]

[Even the consideration is more than he would have expected from Hanzo not so long ago, something that makes his heart swell. Genji nods brightly.]

I believe you will make the choices that are best for you, brother. Even if the answers are not clear to you straight away, you will find them.

[He gets to his feet once more, now intending to leave in earnest.] I will be waiting for you when that day comes.

[eruit]

[ Hanzo is trying. It may not appear to be much to others, but to him it is clearly an effort - to accept that Genji was alive, to accept the man he had become, to accept that this was all reality, now... It was not something he could process easily. ]

You have faith in me.

[ Where he does not have faith in himself; that is the end to that sentence. Frowning, Hanzo watches, unsure what to do or what to say. In the end, all he can do is nod. ]

Do not wait forever, Genji.

[needshealing]

Nothing lasts forever, Hanzo. That is why I have faith.

[Would Hanzo really let this opportunity of the redemption he so desperately wants pass him by, leaving him in this sorry state? Genji doesn't think so; the Hanzo he knows in his heart is not like that. He is strong, and always striving to better himself. Genji only hopes Hanzo can rise to that challenge once again.

With those parting words, Genji vanishes in a blur of green too fast for the eye to track, disappearing into the trees just as silently as he appeared. As with their last meeting, the only evidence he had been there at all is a single sparrow feather as a parting gift, left behind where he had been seated next to Hanzo.]