[Video | Private]pinktintedgamonDecember 5 2010, 22:36:34 UTC
[Raikou can't help but frown at the kids in the video. He knows, of course, that such bullying happened even in his school...but it is something he actually has little experience with.
The children in his school, in the small village outside Tokyo where his family estate had been, were all children of families beholden to the Shimizu clan in some way.
Branch family children, servants children, the children of their clan's followers and later as he got older, some few that had no real connection to their family but were aware of them.
Thus they'd been smart to not conduct themselves as such within his view. Still, he'd known it happened and in the rare instances he had stumbled upon it, he'd put a halt to it with a swiftness.
Back then, his heart was still almost open and warm, held a lingering faith in justice, before his family's politics had erroded that faith down to a shadow of what it'd once been. Still.]
My Japan or your...I regret you were treated as such, Lelouch-kun.
[Video | Private]dramatic_capeDecember 6 2010, 04:41:37 UTC
[ Still shaking off the last remnants of sleep, Lelouch smiles slightly and shrugs. ]
It's been years... I've suffered much worse since then, in other ways. Childhood woes pale in comparison. And once Britannia won the war, that power differential never went away. [ Faint bitterness leaks into his tone. ] Only reversed itself.
[Video | Private]dramatic_capeDecember 8 2010, 05:49:48 UTC
True, but in the process I found a friend. Without whom I could never have accomplished the things I have. [ Oh, Suzaku. Lelouch will never understand how to feel about you. He will never know what to say to you anymore, you to whom he will entrust his life. Suzaku, who betrayed him. Suzaku, who saved him. Suzaku. What will he do with you? ] Without whom... I could not even call myself the same person.
[ With effort, Lelouch wrenches his thoughts back to the present. ]
Otherwise, I suppose I've been doing well. I'm lucky to have housing. My old neighbors in Kusasato didn't want to see me around anymore, not that I can truly fault them. Trouble follows me even at home.
Comments 5
The children in his school, in the small village outside Tokyo where his family estate had been, were all children of families beholden to the Shimizu clan in some way.
Branch family children, servants children, the children of their clan's followers and later as he got older, some few that had no real connection to their family but were aware of them.
Thus they'd been smart to not conduct themselves as such within his view. Still, he'd known it happened and in the rare instances he had stumbled upon it, he'd put a halt to it with a swiftness.
Back then, his heart was still almost open and warm, held a lingering faith in justice, before his family's politics had erroded that faith down to a shadow of what it'd once been. Still.]
My Japan or your...I regret you were treated as such, Lelouch-kun.
Reply
It's been years... I've suffered much worse since then, in other ways. Childhood woes pale in comparison. And once Britannia won the war, that power differential never went away. [ Faint bitterness leaks into his tone. ] Only reversed itself.
Reply
[A smile, soft and a little sleepy himself before he takes a sip of fire-warmed tea.]
It's never pleasant to remember being stuck on the outside as a child, now is it? Regardless of the reason.
How have you been otherwise?
Reply
[ With effort, Lelouch wrenches his thoughts back to the present. ]
Otherwise, I suppose I've been doing well. I'm lucky to have housing. My old neighbors in Kusasato didn't want to see me around anymore, not that I can truly fault them. Trouble follows me even at home.
Reply
Leave a comment