Cover is by: DJLucario on DevianArt The Crooked, the Cradle by The Crane Wives. A lovely song, yet the interpretations are of lack of identity, personal resilience, isolation, defiance, and the desire to hold onto love despite the challenging circumstances. Basically, this is just BALANCE. Isolating himself from some of his Balancers to save the world from ending time and time again, lack of being able to care for everyone yet still trying to hold onto said care/love, defiance over the wrong no matter how hopeless it is, identity being forced to be a Balancer and starting the 3rd Balancer generation, recovering over most casualties or any setback quickly. So uh, cup of tea, I write an au of what if the Balancers never got Balance back and Balance joined Core Cracker, you read it and rage if I mess up :D!
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