All That Remains

Kanon-Darkstar goes to the care facility after ALL THAT REMAINS (beginning of JUST ANOTHER TITANIC TUESDAY) and looks at Warrick Tobias. Darkstar is dressed in normal clothes and has his powers dampened.

DARKSTAR "You could have been my happiness," he says to the unresponsive face. He’s saddened by what might have been.

"Another time, another place. We could have been happy."

It hurt to think about, the might-have-been meeting the never-was.

He’d seen some version of himself immersed in a happiness he’d never dreamed of having for himself.

He’d been broken too young, by his mother’s brittle strength and his father’s human weakness. He’d asked that other-him about that terrible Black Friday when they were 14…

The look had been blank confusion and he’d almost been angry. That his life had been so terribly torn asunder and that other-him had gotten to live happily ever after.

But then he’d allowed himself to be simply glad that some version of him somewhere was happy.