... Hmph. That is something you had best get over quickly. We will not have time to dally and hesitate when this place finally decides we are no longer of any worth to them.
[well, that definitely strikes some kind of chord with stahn—if only because coming from leon, he understands the implications behind that kind of statement.
sometimes it's easy to forget that ceres and oberon are very similar in the worst of ways.]
...You're right. [there's still a bit of defeat in his tone though, because even if leon is right, he still doesn't like the idea of things being so... dark.]
I don't think so. I've seen a few people already today... but a lot of people are gone now, too.
[which has also been hard to miss. more and more friends of his have disappeared completely, giving him less to check up on (but plenty to worry about, even still.)]
Maybe I should tell Otome you said that. [yeah, he's calling it out, because stahn isn't going to let leon say that. for anyone else in cerealia? maybe he could let it slide.
The point is that aside from a very few notable exceptions, the people here have not endeared themselves to me. Talking to them is a waste of time and effort.
[He snorts at that, expression and tone both going a fair bit colder.]
Oh?
Is that so? All I have seen are people who expect me to be something other than I am, only to grow frustrated when I am not. Honestly, thinking that I would change for them... it's ridiculous.
Did that really happen? [were there really people in cerealia who treated him that way?
stahn doesn't know anyone like that, he's never encountered that kind of situation and he's never seen anyone behave that way when talking about leon, either. most were understanding, and even when wary to stahn's insistence that he was a good person, they didn't write him off or say anything about how he needed to change.]
No. Maybe some people are like that, but that's not all of them. It's not even a lot of them....
[stahn can't accept that.]
I don't know who you met that treated you like that, but... it's wrong. It's wrong for them to do that, and it's wrong to believe that's just the way people are.
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[Leon should know.
Really well.]
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sometimes it's easy to forget that ceres and oberon are very similar in the worst of ways.]
...You're right. [there's still a bit of defeat in his tone though, because even if leon is right, he still doesn't like the idea of things being so... dark.]
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... For now, though, we must handle the threat before us.
[So that will have to be enough. And maybe that's Leon letting Stahn off the hook a little from thinking too deeply about how bad CERES can be.]
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...I know. I know, you're right. There's... still a lot we have to take care of here.
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[He wouldn't usually care, but...they really don't have any particular direction to go off of here, so...]
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[which has also been hard to miss. more and more friends of his have disappeared completely, giving him less to check up on (but plenty to worry about, even still.)]
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[In that case... Leon will just set off on a random direction.
He doesn't really want to think about people just randomly disappearing at the moment.]
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[since leon started on a direction anyway. stahn is ready to follow, of course, but he has no idea where they're actually going.]
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[Maybe.
He's not sure.]
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[why is leon always like this.]
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[So there!!!]
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[that's bullshit, and he knows it.]
Maybe I should tell Otome you said that. [yeah, he's calling it out, because stahn isn't going to let leon say that. for anyone else in cerealia? maybe he could let it slide.
but not her.]
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[Otome is, as ever, the exception.]
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[he still said it.]
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Oh?
Is that so? All I have seen are people who expect me to be something other than I am, only to grow frustrated when I am not. Honestly, thinking that I would change for them... it's ridiculous.
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..what?]
Leon...
Did that really happen? [were there really people in cerealia who treated him that way?
stahn doesn't know anyone like that, he's never encountered that kind of situation and he's never seen anyone behave that way when talking about leon, either. most were understanding, and even when wary to stahn's insistence that he was a good person, they didn't write him off or say anything about how he needed to change.]
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I suppose I am not entirely acceptable to many of the people here.
[And so instead... this is what he gets.]
That is only to be accepted.
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That's not something to be accepted at all, Leon. There's nothing wrong with who you are...
[who are these people, he's gonna fight them.]
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[That's all.
That's all he really expects at this point.]
This has only confirmed what I already knew to be true.
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[stahn can't accept that.]
I don't know who you met that treated you like that, but... it's wrong. It's wrong for them to do that, and it's wrong to believe that's just the way people are.
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Believe what you will. Until I have seen otherwise, I will continue to believe for myself what I know and have seen to be true.
[Stahn is just...an exception, as is Otome. The others? They're a mess.]
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[there are so many good people in cerealia, stahn is sure of that.
but...]
Those people... they were wrong, anyway. Anyone who would say anything like that... they're wrong.