[ emma doesn't see much of faraday over the next few days.
she doesn't go out of her way to avoid him like she could, but in so many ways, she's caught in her own thoughts and in trying to parse out what that small, seemingly insignificant encounter in the field with jack had brought up for her. if nothing else, she's preoccupied enough that she doesn't seek faraday out or go looking for his company as she tries to understand what's going on and what she truly believes about the odd nature of the gambler's existence.
is he real? why can only she see him? has she been imagining it all? and if not, what is he?
what, indeed.
she'd promised faraday she wouldn't shut him out again, and she doesn't this time — not intentionally. but with how much she grapples with a reality she's set aside for months now, she doesn't find the opportunity to pay him the kind of mind she usually does, so she doesn't notice quite so much when he spends his time in the town rather than specifically at her side.
someone else notices, however.
there's only one other person who notices faraday whenever he walks beside emma, who sees him pull his pranks or look for something to alleviate his boredom. he watches with a careful eye and never speaks up, never tries to catch either of their attention because...well.
he knows emma will just look right through him.
matthew cullen has filtered in and out of rose creek since the day of his death. he'd seen the way his wife pulled the town out from under bogue's heel with the help of her little mismatched army, and he was proud. his consciousness was always vague, always barely there, and by the time he could finally coalesce for anything worthwhile, emma just never saw him.
it's good, he's told himself. keeps her from dwelling when he knows she needs to move forward with her life, to persevere in that way emma is so good at, but— that was until faraday returned to the world of the living. matthew realizes quickly that faraday is just as much a dead man as matthew when he watches faraday follow emma around, sees how she carefully avoids acknowledging him around the townsfolk, and he knows that unlike himself, emma sees the gambler.
but strangely, he doesn't feel the heavy pangs of regret over this fact. if anything, matthew feels incredibly at peace with his existence, even if emma can't see him. she doesn't need to, is what it comes down to. emma has put him and his spirit at rest, and though he still finds himself returning to the town here and there to see his wife's progress, matthew doesn't feel trapped or unsettled.
emma found righteousness for him, and he's seen his justice.
however, it makes him keenly aware of the reasons emma is still a woman haunted by another ghost.
and what strange reasons they are.
lately, matthew sees faraday in town without emma. odd, given how frequently inseparable they are, he thinks. at first, he doesn't try to get faraday's attention, instead choosing to observe, to see when and how long faraday hangs around by himself, and after a few days of it, matthew's curiosity gets the better of him.
he waits by the imperial saloon, leaning casually against one of the beams supporting the building's balcony as he keeps an eye on the other ghost.
quiet for a long while, before he calls out, keen blue eyes fixed firmly on faraday, ]
Seems like it's not often you wander through here by yourself these days.
matt is in this icon so i guess that counts
she doesn't go out of her way to avoid him like she could, but in so many ways, she's caught in her own thoughts and in trying to parse out what that small, seemingly insignificant encounter in the field with jack had brought up for her. if nothing else, she's preoccupied enough that she doesn't seek faraday out or go looking for his company as she tries to understand what's going on and what she truly believes about the odd nature of the gambler's existence.
is he real? why can only she see him? has she been imagining it all? and if not, what is he?
what, indeed.
she'd promised faraday she wouldn't shut him out again, and she doesn't this time — not intentionally. but with how much she grapples with a reality she's set aside for months now, she doesn't find the opportunity to pay him the kind of mind she usually does, so she doesn't notice quite so much when he spends his time in the town rather than specifically at her side.
someone else notices, however.
there's only one other person who notices faraday whenever he walks beside emma, who sees him pull his pranks or look for something to alleviate his boredom. he watches with a careful eye and never speaks up, never tries to catch either of their attention because...well.
he knows emma will just look right through him.
matthew cullen has filtered in and out of rose creek since the day of his death. he'd seen the way his wife pulled the town out from under bogue's heel with the help of her little mismatched army, and he was proud. his consciousness was always vague, always barely there, and by the time he could finally coalesce for anything worthwhile, emma just never saw him.
it's good, he's told himself. keeps her from dwelling when he knows she needs to move forward with her life, to persevere in that way emma is so good at, but— that was until faraday returned to the world of the living. matthew realizes quickly that faraday is just as much a dead man as matthew when he watches faraday follow emma around, sees how she carefully avoids acknowledging him around the townsfolk, and he knows that unlike himself, emma sees the gambler.
but strangely, he doesn't feel the heavy pangs of regret over this fact. if anything, matthew feels incredibly at peace with his existence, even if emma can't see him. she doesn't need to, is what it comes down to. emma has put him and his spirit at rest, and though he still finds himself returning to the town here and there to see his wife's progress, matthew doesn't feel trapped or unsettled.
emma found righteousness for him, and he's seen his justice.
however, it makes him keenly aware of the reasons emma is still a woman haunted by another ghost.
and what strange reasons they are.
lately, matthew sees faraday in town without emma. odd, given how frequently inseparable they are, he thinks. at first, he doesn't try to get faraday's attention, instead choosing to observe, to see when and how long faraday hangs around by himself, and after a few days of it, matthew's curiosity gets the better of him.
he waits by the imperial saloon, leaning casually against one of the beams supporting the building's balcony as he keeps an eye on the other ghost.
quiet for a long while, before he calls out, keen blue eyes fixed firmly on faraday, ]
Seems like it's not often you wander through here by yourself these days.