[If it helps, he's not a Chancellor any longer! Why, it's not even technically his country.]
My country. [Echoing the words back, he obviously finds something amusing in them. He never held any real loyalty to Niflheim; the Empire was just a vehicle, a means to an end. The irony is that he's 100% Lucian.
Now then, how to go about saying all of that? If she was friends with Prompto, then obviously she's heard less than flattering things about Niflheim. No doubt having to do with MTs and the like; that had been something of a sore spot for the boy, which Ardyn had definitely used to his advantage.]
It isn't my country any longer. I did say I was Chancellor, and that was before our star was swept away by the Storm. Things have changed since then.
[But he'll only half-heartedly try to twist the situation into a more appealing light. The truth of the matter is that he hardly cares enough to put any real effort into sounding like a shining model of an individual -- he is what he is, now, and the time of deception has long been passed.]
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My country. [Echoing the words back, he obviously finds something amusing in them. He never held any real loyalty to Niflheim; the Empire was just a vehicle, a means to an end. The irony is that he's 100% Lucian.
Now then, how to go about saying all of that? If she was friends with Prompto, then obviously she's heard less than flattering things about Niflheim. No doubt having to do with MTs and the like; that had been something of a sore spot for the boy, which Ardyn had definitely used to his advantage.]
It isn't my country any longer. I did say I was Chancellor, and that was before our star was swept away by the Storm. Things have changed since then.
[But he'll only half-heartedly try to twist the situation into a more appealing light. The truth of the matter is that he hardly cares enough to put any real effort into sounding like a shining model of an individual -- he is what he is, now, and the time of deception has long been passed.]