Echo's Links
every now and then i think about mado/echo and my brains worming again this morning.
Thinking about a freshly grown Mado starting to feel confident enough to do things without her parents holding her hands all the time so she decides to start traveling Eyre, rekindling her relationship with Valen and being there for him solidified the idea that she feels most "herself" when she's helping others sorta get into a better place and she starts sort of, looking for people to help, offering services and stuff like that, all while slowly branching out and seeing Eyre for herself instead of just in the pages of books
Eventually she gets to a place & she keeps overhearing rumors about a guy who's lost his way and that he used to be such a sweet kid but grew up into a delinquent due to bad adult figures/influences so he kinda never learned about morals and stuff. So she's like, well I gotta find this guy he could use a friend. And she meets him (he probably tried stealing from her or something lol) and despite how he might wind up treating her she just shows him such genuine kindness he's never experienced so far and he's just :pelleyempty: but also kind of intrigued because this girl just comes up being. like that and he doesnt get it but for some reason doesnt feel like removing her from his life so he keeps her around
then basically its kind of a repeat of what shes used to where he's a dick to her but shes like "oh haha its ok he doesnt mean it" except while he does start to get better he has some other outside influences that are still holding onto him and he just spirals more into being evil-aligned and gets to a point where she cant help him anymore and it leaves her heartbroken. him too but he'd never admit that to himself