[ Of course it's on purpose, he'll take all manners of victories that he can, now that he knows what a true triumph over Ardyn would entail. What it'd require in compensation and the consequences inherent in shying away from his duty, the unfairness of it all. (Not that it would've stopped him, had Eos continue to stand. He would have gone through with it, but it didn't make any less fair.) He's stiff with his continued contempt, fingers curled into fists that he knows he will stay for as long as Darma's words and promise held true.
Held back despite how much he wanted to materialize his father's blade to continue the prophecy as foretold instead of adding fuel and literal firewood to the fire, awkward in how incapable they are at walking away. Maybe they really are related, and that-- ]
Family. [ How much flatter can his voice get? Let's try.
And let's plainly give away how unsurprised at this he sounds, as if this is the second (or third, considering Bahamut) time that he may be privy to this bombshell that Ardyn is so casually dropping. ]
So I should be making you tell me a second time, then. [ His only family had been dead, and his found ones? Currently missing, but he'll find them. The man standing before him though falls under neither category, lineages be damned. ]
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Held back despite how much he wanted to materialize his father's blade to continue the prophecy as foretold instead of adding fuel and literal firewood to the fire, awkward in how incapable they are at walking away. Maybe they really are related, and that-- ]
Family. [ How much flatter can his voice get? Let's try.
And let's plainly give away how unsurprised at this he sounds, as if this is the second (or third, considering Bahamut) time that he may be privy to this bombshell that Ardyn is so casually dropping. ]
So I should be making you tell me a second time, then. [ His only family had been dead, and his found ones? Currently missing, but he'll find them. The man standing before him though falls under neither category, lineages be damned. ]