HOLD UP FRIEND I GOTTA... get my friendship soapbox here
Riku had friends willing to accept him in his entirety, good and bad and everything in between, even when he did stuff that honestly he wouldn't have blamed anyone for never forgiving.
Quentin's not the only one who could have taken a way out himself but chose to hang on, it's just the things that they hung on to are a little bit different. I think after their hallucination heart to heart Riku realized there's a lot of blood, sweat and tears that went into Q's survival story, so... it's really not pity. It's relating.
I guess it's more like understanding things like, well, loneliness and isolation, being different, how these things can mess with your head and heart, he gets it! And he was pretty much over it when he got here, but then he lost everyone super important to him and is trying to find his feet again, too.
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Riku had friends willing to accept him in his entirety, good and bad and everything in between, even when he did stuff that honestly he wouldn't have blamed anyone for never forgiving.
Quentin's not the only one who could have taken a way out himself but chose to hang on, it's just the things that they hung on to are a little bit different. I think after their hallucination heart to heart Riku realized there's a lot of blood, sweat and tears that went into Q's survival story, so... it's really not pity. It's relating.
I guess it's more like understanding things like, well, loneliness and isolation, being different, how these things can mess with your head and heart, he gets it! And he was pretty much over it when he got here, but then he lost everyone super important to him and is trying to find his feet again, too.