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You caused me no trouble.

You caused me a little bit of worry perhaps but it was no more than I could handle, truly. [Maedhros had once juggled more than simply one overenthusiastic elfling, it hadn't been anything he wasn't well equiped to handle.]

You're too kind to me, Nelyo.

[ Still a bit red ]

I suppose... I did have fun. It was nice to be innocent again, for a while.

I am as kind as you deserve.

[Maglor had made for an adorable child in any case. He had not minded at all that he had had to care for him.]

I'm glad I could keep you entertained. It was good to see you so carefree again.

I was not hard to entertain. [ He says wryly, still able to remember flitting around to every interesting thing ]

But I suppose you had practice keeping up.

Children usualy aren't. [Like a curious little bird he'd been.]

I did manage to wrangle Tyelko, Moryo and Curvo after all. You were hardly the most difficult child I've ever had to care for.

When you put it that way...

[ Maglor shudders in mock horror ]

At least there was only one of me!

[ He remembers the few times he had to babysit Ambarussa. It didn't usually end well ]

You are so lucky they were primarily my problem.

[Technicaly they were primarily their parents problem, but... with their father being the way he was and their mother being just one person with twins to care for as well. Was it any wonder that he had taken it upon himself to deal with the Terrible Three?]

Indeed, hardly any trouble at all!

[That's because you didn't do enough to make sure you meant it when you threatened them with consequenses! You had to follow through with your threats, Kano.]

That's because you're the only one responsible enough.

[ Maglor points out, amused ]

They were never going to let Tyelko babysit, after he forgot Moryo in the woods!

[ He couldn't even tell them apart for the first few years and you want him to follow through on consequences??? ]

It's lucky for our parents that they managed to produce at least one responsible son.

[Whatever would any of them have done if he had turned out just as wild as the rest of them?]

They never should have let him do it that first time either. Poor Moryo, he was absolutely inconsolable when I found him.

[Truly? Maedhros could tell them apart easily enough.]

I suppose you could argue Moryo was responsible, at least, so long as it did not involve talking to anyone!

[ .........probably not made it to adulthood? ]

He was, and I don't think he ever forgave Tyelko that!

[ ........they were identical how??!?! ]

He could be, if he didn't let his temper get the better of him so often.

[Sadly that is probably true...]

Can you blame him? How would you have felt if I forgot you in the middle of an unfamiliar forest at that age? Not to mention that Tyelko didn't exactly treat him all that nicely before or after that either.

[He can tell them apart because Amras is about 5% more of a pain in the ass than his twin is... and also Amrod's hair is just a little bit darker than Amras is.]

I would have forgiven you eventually.

[ Maglor offers loyally, before admitting ]

Maybe very, very eventually. But Tyelko made no effort, as you say. [ Not from lack of love, but simply lack of interest, as far as anyone could tell ]

I would have thought that Curvo becoming a father would have helped him be more responsible, however...

[ ............brother you're the only one who noticed that ]

But you never would have let me live it down either.

[He'd make songs about it. Songs! He'd never be able to show his face in public again.]

Tyelko always thought people got over such things as fast as he was prone to do in those days. His anger came and went as swiftly as the wind back then.

Hah! Wishful thinking brother, if ever I heard it.

[...He was?]

This is true.

[ Absolutely no shame in that admission ]

I don't think Tyelko ever hated anyone saving Morgoth. [ Maglor agrees ] Sustained anger was not something he truly knew how to have - or perhaps, not something he thought worth bothering to have.

And one never knows!

[ Yes, brother, you were. And maybe Mother. ]

Lucky for me I wasn't in the habit of forgetting any of you.

Not back then at least. After the debacle with Luthien however... [Tyelko had certainly hated her line after that.] It just wasn't in his nature to hold a grudge for more than an hour or so, then it was almost as if he forgot whatever had made him mad ever happened.

But one can make an educated guess!

[He didn't think it was that hard to tell them apart...]

Alas for my catchy song lyric pool. [ Maglor agrees cheerfully.

He winces ]

Ai... I don't know what he and Curvo were thinking! I know we need the Silmaril but surely they could have gone about it... more sensibly. Somehow.

[ They absolutely were ]

I weep for you brother. I am truly selfish for not thinking about all the melancholy songs you could have given voice to if only I had been a less attentive brother. [His tone is very dry as he says it but the corners of his mouth is twitching in a very telling way.]

I wish they would have done nothing at all. It would have given us something to leverage against Thingol, but they gave him all he needed to make his basicaly selling his daughter for another houses stolen treasure to seem a just and noble deed.

[If you say so...]

So selfish. [ Maglor smiles, pleased to have gotten a reaction, even one so small as that ]

Curse Thingol for naming the blasted things as his brideprice in the first place. [ He agrees ] Beren was not wrong, when he said that Thingol valued his daughter lightly.

[ He says so, Tyelko says so, Moryo says so, Curvo says so... ]

The absolute worst. [The flat look he gives his brother is ruined a bit by how the corners of his lips are twitching upwards when he can't quite keep an amused smile off his face.]

It was foolish of him, and as much as he came to respect and love Beren afterwards I have not forgotten that he sent him off on that errand hoping he would die. [He scowls.] Who did he hope would serve as his unwitting headsman, I wonder? Morgoth or one of us? Our brothers did wrong by her but Thingol can't really say he treated her that well either when he was the one keeping her from where she wanted to go.

[In Maedhros humble opinion Thingol was a great, big, flaming hypocrite.]

I love you anyway~ [ He carols happily, pleased to have gotten a reaction ]

It was - and while I acknowledge the weight of our own actions, I will never forgive him for deciding to make of us his weapons. That, he had not the right to do! That Luthien's tale was not a tragedy is entirely her own doing and nothing of his.

[ Maglor will help punch Thingol, if ever they meet ]

How generous of you, little brother. [And he gives up on even trying to suppress that smile.]

Our wrongdoings do not erase his own. I won't forgive him either, for all that he decried the bloodshed our oath caused he seemed glad enough to fashion it into a weapon he could wield against Beren. [For he can't have been stupid enough not to know what trying to claim a silmaril for his own would cause.] Did he think that just because someone else would wield the knife that slit Beren's throath that his own hands would remain clean? The hypocrisy of that man...

[Maglor can hold him still while Maedhros does the punching, he hits way harder after all.]

[ Maglor growls lowly at the memory ]

Aye. And I won't forget either that he closed the borders against even the civilians, after the Nirnaeth - to us, I understand. But the civilians! And he dares to name himself King of Beleriand...

[He snorts derisively.]

It is as I said so long ago. He was in truth king of Doriath only, for he lacked the means and will to rule the rest of the land. He was only too proud to admit to it. And his denial of help to those people should make him as much a kinslayer as the rest of us, but perhaps he thinks it is more noble to simply stand aside and let people die than to put them to the sword himself.

You were more a king than he could ever be. [ Maglor grumbles ] Crown or no.

That is one thing I never liked about the Doriathrim - holding their 'clean' hands above us, as if they were somehow better.

[ it is, he knows, one of the reasons why their attack on Doriath did not have as quite as severe repercussions as it ought to have, that there was a great deal of resentment amongst those outside the Fence ]

I'm not so sure about that. But I wasn't the worst lord to serve under. [He can admit to that much at least.] Sometimes a crown can get in the way of what most needs doing.

It was frustrating. Their inaction left enough bodies at their doorstep they almost came close to the numbers outside our own. But I think the thing I can't truly forgive Thingol for was his dereliction of duty. He wanted the authority over all of Beleriand but none of the responsibility that went with it if it meant he'd had to leave the safety of his wife's Girdle.

[You couldn't have one without the other, at least not according to Maedhros. Thingol should have known that being the king meant you no longer belonged solely to yourself and you were beholden to the people you ruled over. All the people you claimed as your own, not only those who asked the least of you.]

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