You're not planning to go charging off for your revenge tomorrow, are you? Surely there's time to pick up something, just in case.
[He seems... surprisingly worried about it? Like, he is genuinely concerned about you guys with a nerfed Ardyn to serve as most of your combat power. The strength of the blood royal is not infinite.]
I know better than anyone exactly how vulnerable members of our family can be.
[Perhaps surprisingly, there's not guilt in it. Instead he meets that knife-filled smile with a look that actually suits a king. It's the look of someone who would turn his whole life on its end for his family at a moment's notice - ]
No matter how you tell me not to worry, I will worry anyway.
[ - the look of someone who watched a hundred and more generations fade away in the night of the crystal, bearing the why of it in his heart for none other to see.]
I do not intend to stand back this time and watch my family die while I can do nothing.
sorry did you say keep twisting the knife? ABSOLUTELY, WITH PLEASURE
[ There's a hundred things she could say in response to that. Some way of voicing the little stab of anger she feels at him saying it like that -- our family, as if he has any right to claim himself a place there. He might have been Ardyn's brother but Yuuri certainly doesn't think of this man as her family. ]
You make it sound like you don't have the least bit of faith in us. We've made it this far and none of us are prepared to stop until we make it all the way to the end.
After two thousand years, being personally manipulated and betrayed by my family's patron god, and working customer service, I'm afraid my faith is all worn out.
[Too bad for your consideration of family, Yuuri, because Izunia has a very different idea of it. He's known you for perhaps half an hour and loves you as dearly as his own children. Deal with it.]
It has nothing to do with your abilities, and everything to do with my own experiences seeing the most determined love in the world go wrong. I...
[He looks away, closing eyes with a sigh.]
I can't simply watch him go off again and feel nothing about it. I do not have to like being left behind again.
I'm not telling you to like it. I'm just telling you that's the way it has to be. And I'm sure all of us would be happier about it if you weren't talking like the voice of doom.
[ Yuuri has one of those in her head that's more than loud enough, thank you very much! ]
We're not just going to run in headfirst and slam right into trouble. We'll have some sort of plan in place. And I don't think escalating things with as many weapons as we can carry would be the right way to go about it.
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[ sir, you saw season three, why would you trust any single person on the fantasy sweet with a gUN ]
I think we'd do more harm to ourselves than anyone else.
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[He seems... surprisingly worried about it? Like, he is genuinely concerned about you guys with a nerfed Ardyn to serve as most of your combat power. The strength of the blood royal is not infinite.]
i feel like i need to apologize for this tag
[ oh hey the smile full of knives is back ]
Dad isn't the only one who knows what he's doing. You don't have to worry about us.
okay I've recovered enough to come back to this
[Perhaps surprisingly, there's not guilt in it. Instead he meets that knife-filled smile with a look that actually suits a king. It's the look of someone who would turn his whole life on its end for his family at a moment's notice - ]
No matter how you tell me not to worry, I will worry anyway.
[ - the look of someone who watched a hundred and more generations fade away in the night of the crystal, bearing the why of it in his heart for none other to see.]
I do not intend to stand back this time and watch my family die while I can do nothing.
sorry did you say keep twisting the knife? ABSOLUTELY, WITH PLEASURE
[ There's a hundred things she could say in response to that. Some way of voicing the little stab of anger she feels at him saying it like that -- our family, as if he has any right to claim himself a place there. He might have been Ardyn's brother but Yuuri certainly doesn't think of this man as her family. ]
You make it sound like you don't have the least bit of faith in us. We've made it this far and none of us are prepared to stop until we make it all the way to the end.
right back at you though
[Too bad for your consideration of family, Yuuri, because Izunia has a very different idea of it. He's known you for perhaps half an hour and loves you as dearly as his own children. Deal with it.]
It has nothing to do with your abilities, and everything to do with my own experiences seeing the most determined love in the world go wrong. I...
[He looks away, closing eyes with a sigh.]
I can't simply watch him go off again and feel nothing about it. I do not have to like being left behind again.
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I'm not telling you to like it. I'm just telling you that's the way it has to be. And I'm sure all of us would be happier about it if you weren't talking like the voice of doom.
[ Yuuri has one of those in her head that's more than loud enough, thank you very much! ]
We're not just going to run in headfirst and slam right into trouble. We'll have some sort of plan in place. And I don't think escalating things with as many weapons as we can carry would be the right way to go about it.
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I'm afraid voice of doom is all I've been for some centuries. I truly do believe in you, I just... can't calm my own anxieties.