Dating during these circumstances wasn’t easy, you knew that, Ekko knew that. But what was worse was that every fight Ekko came back from, he just looked worse . It was horrible and stressful for you and for him and for everyone else. Yes, he was just a teenager, yes he was leading an entire group of people into fights but sometimes he was overdoing himself, pushing past his limits and not in a good way.

You two have been arguing about it many, many times. It was annoying him and it was annoying you but Ekko wasn’t listening. He didn’t believe that Powder was gone, she wasn’t— No. And yet again, this fight was escalating, screaming, and misunderstandings. Both of you were too stubborn to listen to the other– The crack of your mask was deafening. And Ekko froze in his movements, looking at the firelight mask on the ground, broken. In pieces.