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ok but. hal jordan grew up watching the stars. He's had his eyes trained on them since he could barely remember what the word for them was, and if the ring showed him one thing, it was that being a pilot wasn't nearly enough

what's that story about the king or princess or someone who kept their heart outside their body so they wouldn't die (or be heartbroken?) bc hal has, at at least one point in his life, thought to himself that if he could do smth like that, he'd throw his heart up into the night sky and let the stars keep it

also highkey wanna say that he has a huge thing for and tendency to pick up on new stars when he's on lantern corps missions on planets with diff constellations than earth. He love love loves looking at what the night sky looks like on other worlds, and hearing different world's stories for their constellations, for the shapes and stories other people have made when they drew lines between the stars they saw

drunk hal rambles about the stars you see from earth and about the stars you see from other planets

just. hal, v tipsy by now, leaning back and talking about how the stars from one planet in a sector close to oa make up the weapon of some old king on that planet, but hal swears he saw them and they lined up to look exactly like the flash's symbol

hal frowning at the sky and trying to explain what the constellation looked like and pointing up and being like "just move that one to the right a bit, and that one down, and line those three up—" bc of course hal jordan would need a bigger place than everyone else to put his love