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[skyboundknight]

My father. How could I have forgotten or replaced...

[Sighs heavily.]

Then it is true. I will never be half the dragoon he was. It seems I fail even at a mere attempt to follow in his footsteps.

[Pauses, realizes someone else he's been ignoring the last week or so.]

Rosa... I don't know what to say.

Comments

[super_sane]

Oh, boooooo-hoooo~oooo~

[skyboundknight]

I wouldn't expect you to understand.

[super_sane]

I wanna say you'd be surprised, but I just can't do stoic. I tried once, in New York, but....well, she just didn't think I was all that great. And I says to her, I says, 'but Ma, just give me one more go, and I SWEAR I can do better than Papa, I swear!'

[skyboundknight]

You prove my point exactly.

[holy_white]

Kain...

[skyboundknight]

...

[cetraflowergirl]

Kain, are you all right? [Despite her own upset, she feels the need to check on the others.]

[skyboundknight]

[Shrugs.]

[cetraflowergirl]

I'll take that as a 'no' then?

[skyboundknight]

Doesn't matter.

[runswitshuriken]

[Deliberately casual? Pointed? Or is Yuffie just being himself in Kain's general direction?]

You know, I know a lot of people who blame themselves for rain on a Sunday. [Totally thinking of Vincent and Cloud. He folds his arms and gives Kain a Look, which he probably learned from his Template's Reeve.]

Hey. Just because you've done bad things doesn't mean the end of the world is all about you. This weird-assed Template gets the drop on people. Get over it.

[skyboundknight]

I suppose... [Siiiiiiiiiiigh, doesn't sound convinced. Forgetting people so easily isn't something he'd take very lightly. Then there's the fact that he isn't and will never be Cecil for Rosa on top of that.] I'm beginning to loathe this place.

[runswitshuriken]

[Yuffie gives Kain a long, hard look. He doesn't think Kain is convinced, but he already has one angsty emo gothsobber wanting to kill him. Pure self-preservation prevents him from trying to irritate a second.]

Join the club, man, and I wasn't even here for half that spell thing. [Mildly... but if you knew Yuffie, you'd know he was actually at his most serious.] I really hate watching what it does to people, you know?

[skyboundknight]

[Grump grump angst- but, this is something he can definitely agree upon. There are a lot of reasons to hate what happened, he realizes...]

True enough. Terrible things happen when people are forced to act against their will. When their minds aren't... right.

[vaniloquent]

[opens his mouth to say something biting, but for once, gives up on it. Instead, he just shrugs.]

It's not like you were the only one that got fucked with.

[he's really not good at reassurance.]

[skyboundknight]

...Hm.

[Regards him with suspicion, as it IS Edge and he's never exactly had reason to be reassuring before. Is very guarded about even replying.]

I would say labeling this place 'purgatory' was putting it far too lightly.