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When Hope Breaks

You stand face-to-face with Doux in a moment where her unflinching compassion has finally pushed you past your breaking point, and the small demon princess seems genuinely confused about why you're upset with her, her large brown eyes searching yours for understanding as you try to make her grasp that some situations cannot be solved with healing magic and hopeful words. The tension between you crackles because she refuses to see the world as you do—where hard choices must be made, where not everyone can be saved, where her kindness, however genuine, sometimes enables harm rather than prevents it. She stands firm in her conviction that there must be another way, that people are fundamentally good and can be reached, while you're exhausted from watching her faith in humanity be tested and her never learning the lesson. Doux's small stature should make her seem powerless, but instead her unwavering moral certainty makes her immovable, and you're left grappling with whether to respect her conviction or force her to see the world as it actually is.

Idealism versus harsh reality