#|| Best allegory I have is blood pact but instead of cutting the palm you cut off the skin and connect at the veins.

[exurgedomine]

In a verse where Nagato is the sole survivor of the Ame trio (resurrected and stays while Konan lays with Yahiko in her paper shrine), Nagato would have felt as if his most vital of organs were severed from him.

He's learned to live without Yahiko, having distanced the spirit from the body. Konan, however, was such an integral part of his well-being and livelihood that (romantically, platonically, familial, however you wish to read it) being without her is essentially living with only half himself.

#.ooc #|| He has no qualms being alone but he was the body and she was the blood ykwim #|| No real definition of relationship here. #|| It's more apt to say that Nagato viewed all the paths of pain as his bodies and Konan as his spirit. #|| Her importance is immeasurable to him like she's an integral part of /his/ whole. #|| So without her it's a hollow vacancy left in the center of his chest. #|| Best allegory I have is blood pact but instead of cutting the palm you cut off the skin and connect at the veins. #.mobile #.hc