No. It *would* feel like a betrayal to. I understand that much. I wouldn't be able to continue with him.
And I don't mean to say that *you* should continue on with him as if he were the Hythlodaeus you lost either. You *shouldn't*. He is absolutely *not* a replacement for *your* Hythlodaeus.
Just-- don't close yourself off to becoming friends again with *this* Hythlodaeus, even if you can't love him like the one you knew before. Not as a replacement for the one you lost, but as a person in his own right. Because even if he started his existence as someone created from your own memories, he's grown from that.
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No. It *would* feel like a betrayal to. I understand that much. I wouldn't be able to continue with him.
And I don't mean to say that *you* should continue on with him as if he were the Hythlodaeus you lost either. You *shouldn't*. He is absolutely *not* a replacement for *your* Hythlodaeus.
Just-- don't close yourself off to becoming friends again with *this* Hythlodaeus, even if you can't love him like the one you knew before. Not as a replacement for the one you lost, but as a person in his own right. Because even if he started his existence as someone created from your own memories, he's grown from that.