Summary: Perhaps tears are an unavoidable part of adventure. Aladdin knows this. Magi Week Prompt: Tears and/or Adventure.
Pairing(s)/Character(s): Team Zagan, with light implications of Alibaba/Morgiana
Rating: G
Warning(s): dammit it's short again
Words: 375
Perhaps tears are an unavoidable part of adventure.
Or perhaps Alibaba is just a crybaby. He's lost count of the times he's ended up breaking down during the conflict with Kassim alone, and while he is not afraid to claim that he's matured since then, it still does not take much to cause his lips to shake and eyes to water. And as humiliating as his tendency to cry easily is... He's unable to regret the path he's being taken down for a second. While he regrets some of his decisions, he can't find any place within him that regrets his adventures.
Aladdin knows this.
Perhaps tears are an unavoidable part of adventure.
Or perhaps Morgiana simply did not have the freedom to cry, to express herself before she began her own journey. Since she was freed, she has felt a lot - trust, joy, sadness, regret, and a combination of all kinds of feelings around Alibaba that she doesn't know how to label - but most of all she has felt alive. Expressing emotion is still not something that comes easy to her, and understanding it is even harder, but... But as their adventure continues, she can feel it become just a bit easier. Emotion means freedom, and this adventure brought her just that, so neither adventure nor tears are shameful in Morgiana's eyes.
Aladdin knows this.
Perhaps tears are an unavoidable part of adventure.
Or perhaps, like Alibaba, Hakuryuu is just a crybaby. But while Alibaba's tears stem from grief, that very same feeling seems to cause Hakuryuu to hide his emotions away behind a mask of determination and coldness more than anything else. While Hakuryuu had been in Zagan with them, though... Aladdin had thought those barriers had been broken down. The tears Hakuryuu had shed then... They were much like those Alibaba would often shed. Adventure was good for Hakuryuu in the same way they were good for Morgiana, as he still has to learn just how to express his emotions. But perhaps Aladdin misunderstood. Perhaps Hakuryuu's grief was so deep-rooted within him that not even tears could set his feelings loose. But still... The four of them are friends. Adventure and tears brought them all together.
And Aladdin knows this.
