I can see how that visual would be seared into your mind's eye even after all these years. Oh, Londo.
he still has to walk to meet it and he does, all the memories of his life fresh in his mind. There's still so much of him in there. There'll be enough at the end, but he doesn't know it.
LONDO.
He knows Londo too well not to guess something, no matter how carefully Londo is trying not to endanger him with the knowledge. One of the reasons I believe in your future fic is that I cannot actually imagine G'Kar going fifteen years without figuring out what was up, since he clearly comprehends that something is.
Yes! I absolutely refuse to believe that G'Kar could not recognize something was very deeply wrong with the sudden turnaround from "where he goes, I go," from Londo refusing to step aside for the guards and refusing to leave the cell and risking his life to drag him out of the rubble under the palace - to "It wouldn't be appropriate" and "I may not see you again." And he clearly recognizes the seriousness of the situation. He just knows Londo too well by now not to be able to read that something is wrong in every interaction.
The other person who has got to notice almost immediately that something's up with Londo is Vir. I just do not buy that between the two of them, they couldn't figure out some part of it fairly quickly, even if it's just to realize that Londo is being somehow blackmailed or otherwise controlled.
There's too much to say for a last time and they manage to say all of the important things. And I love that it is specifically the Centauri arm-clasp which Londo reaches for and G'Kar returns without a false start or a second thought, as if he'd been making the gesture all his life. In synch, still.
Yes, yes. And it means so much that G'Kar recognizes instantly that the Centauri greeting/farewell is what Londo is going for and what he needs in that moment (which is also another sign that nothing is right).
If this has to be their last meaningful conversation in canon, it's a doozy of one.
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I can see how that visual would be seared into your mind's eye even after all these years. Oh, Londo.
he still has to walk to meet it and he does, all the memories of his life fresh in his mind. There's still so much of him in there. There'll be enough at the end, but he doesn't know it.
LONDO.
He knows Londo too well not to guess something, no matter how carefully Londo is trying not to endanger him with the knowledge. One of the reasons I believe in your future fic is that I cannot actually imagine G'Kar going fifteen years without figuring out what was up, since he clearly comprehends that something is.
Yes! I absolutely refuse to believe that G'Kar could not recognize something was very deeply wrong with the sudden turnaround from "where he goes, I go," from Londo refusing to step aside for the guards and refusing to leave the cell and risking his life to drag him out of the rubble under the palace - to "It wouldn't be appropriate" and "I may not see you again." And he clearly recognizes the seriousness of the situation. He just knows Londo too well by now not to be able to read that something is wrong in every interaction.
The other person who has got to notice almost immediately that something's up with Londo is Vir. I just do not buy that between the two of them, they couldn't figure out some part of it fairly quickly, even if it's just to realize that Londo is being somehow blackmailed or otherwise controlled.
There's too much to say for a last time and they manage to say all of the important things. And I love that it is specifically the Centauri arm-clasp which Londo reaches for and G'Kar returns without a false start or a second thought, as if he'd been making the gesture all his life. In synch, still.
Yes, yes. And it means so much that G'Kar recognizes instantly that the Centauri greeting/farewell is what Londo is going for and what he needs in that moment (which is also another sign that nothing is right).
If this has to be their last meaningful conversation in canon, it's a doozy of one.