Amongst her mother's possessions, she found…
Amongst her mother's possessions, she found a dagger. Glimmer found a dagger under her mother's pillow. It was the strangest thing... Glimmer's mother was an immortal being, she would've outlived Glimmer if she hadn't been sucked into that portal Catra opened. Yet why would an immortal queen need a dagger? Glimmer was queen now and she understood the dangers and the stress of the job, but it was never anything that made her feel so fearful of her life that she felt the need to hide a dagger under her pillow.
"Hey, Glimmer." Adora noticed Glimmer in her mum's old room. It had only been a few days since Glimmer's crowning and everyone was still walking on eggshells around it a bit. It was annoying but Glimmer herself felt on the verge of tears every second of every day so it wasn't exactly like everyone was incorrect in their treatment.
"Hi..." Glimmer sniffed. God, can she not keep it together for a one interaction. Glimmer had always been fearful that she couldn't ever live up to her mother, but she had always believed it wasn't something she would truly have to do. She never though that the last thing she would do with her mother was argue. Glimmer regretted every arguement, she regretted every moment she teleported out of her mum's hugs, she regretted every time she hide things from her mum, she regretted every complaint.
Glimmer wiped tears that poured from her eyes, luckily it was only Adora or Bow who ever truly saw her facade break down. Even her mum must have had some moments of weakness that Glimmer was not privy too right? Or was Angella the perfect queen, shoes eight times the size of Glimmer, impossible to fill.
"Glimmer... why are you holding a dagger?" Adora asked coming up behind Glimmer making her jump.
"Gah! Adora!" Glimmer gasped, her suprise turning er tears in giggles, until she was laughing uncontrollably.
This was insane. All of this was insane! Glimmer was queen, yet she was still sneaking around her own palace. Her mother was an immortal queen yet she was gone. Her mother was an immortal queen yet Glimmer found a knife under her pillow. Portals existed! Other universes were out there and Glimmer had put all her friends and the whole planet at risk. She had down that, her mum had die because of her.
"I can't do this, Adora." Glimmer dropped the dagger on the floor with a clatter and wrapped her arms around Adora as she sobbed.
Glimmer sobbed for the death of her mother. For all the harm she had caused. For the fact she never truly knew her own mother. For all the time they had lost in anger. For losing the most important person in her life. Glimmer wept for herself, for her mother, for her friends, for her duties, for her father who she hardly remembered but she wished she did. Glimmer wept for any semblance of a family she had and for the one she lost.