Maybe normally he'd shrug this off, and remain closed off, but maybe he's feeling a little generous due to her drunken stupor, or how she's very "emotionals" right now.]
'Tis never that easy, and smiling is not going to change aught at all about the reality of our situation, nor that of our own situation back whence we came. If I were to die, the only thing I would regret would have little to do with smiles, and would have everything to do with failing to complete my duty before my undoing.
Mine is not a life that's meant to enjoy the simple things, they would only serve to distract me.
Thasts' so sad though. SAD sad notLAME sad. You're alwyas like "forsooth I'm a person whith a soul not liek your HELLSIH DEVIL AUTOMATONS YEA" but yuo act like what you think robots shoudl be?? All BEEP BOOP MY FUNCTCION BOOP If you're as strogn (and STUBBORNN) (estubborn lol) as you make out then you shouldbe able tto hvae some nice things in your life without it beign a distaction. Take it from me becasue I didMY friggign duty before I died and t meant EFF ALL basiccaly Am I making sense? I'm vREY drunk.
Worry not, I can make sense of your drunken scribing. But, perhaps I am not unlike them in that regard.
[And while he's loyal as fuck to those he holds dear, he's also a bit untrustworthy in the fact he'll do anything to help him complete it, even commit treason to the very people he's sworn to.
Maybe he's projecting a little on the machines.]
Regardless, I cannot be happy till I have slain Nidhogg, till I have purged him utterly. But in so doing, I am not so arrogant to not realize that so too will my life be forfeit.
[His voice is even and calm, as if this isn't a conversation about how he's going to die.]
I find little point in filling my life with small enjoyments, when it will mean naught at all in the end.
Not everyone is meant to be happy, not all lives have the equal chances as others. Some lives are naught more than a sacrifice for the betterment of others.
Slaying Nidhogg would free Ishgard from its thousand years of suffering, it would end this bloody war and no one else would be made to suffer for it. Orphans would no longer be turned into soldiers, forced to face the fangs and claws of these fire breathing demons that slew their families. No longer will these fiends destroy villages, massacre innocents--or, at the very least the beasts will be less bold once their sire falls. Like vermin without direction, they will scatter to the wind, and we will be able to eradicate the vile monsters.
[ That hits too close to home. Even through the grody bourbon haze. NOPE. ]
You sound like agross mixtrue of what Jack wanted me to be adn what I HAD tob e. Tha'st effed up. And who or whaever made you think that way is an ASSSSSSSSSSSHOOOOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLLLEEEEEEEEEE.
[And that's all he can really say about it. He won't deny that Nidhogg is an asshole, he's much worse than that, and he also won't deny that Ishgard is far from perfect in their way of handling people like himself. But what's done is done, and he's too far in and invested in what he's doing to back out now.]
So.
[His voice stays just as it was, not a sense of softness to it as he asks the next question:]
What's this about you being a slave? What Jack wanted you to be..?
UGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHhhhhhhhhh arey ou just asking so you can be a jerkabout it?? Ify ou are, don't do that. I am being NICE and it woudl roll you into asshole territroy. Prickly asshole. Covred in metal. Gross. Hamsome Jack lockered me up for a lot of time becuse I was dangerous. Then because he wanted a spy to make peple do things he coldn't. THEN becasue he wnated to use me as a battery. Catalsyst. Do you know what one of those si?? It is when yuo put metal holes in your daugatr's head and fill her with magicals pace drugs so her powers fill up a key thing with DOUBLEE magic space eneryg magic. Then when they key is charged boom. Yu open the vault and now you have a cool dragons monster to burn up allthe banits with. And if she doesn't want to do thehing, you put the controll colar on her and then she does the thign anyway. THAT is ahwat a battery is, youre welcome!! ♥♥♥
[Where to even begin... that all sounds awful, and the fact a man would do that to his own child... doesn't honestly surprise him. While he's a man loyal to family, he knows well the cruelty of others and their weak fealty to their own.
But that's cruel beyond measure.]
An oddly specific thing, batteries. A shame such befell you. Whilst we are at odds, I do not think you deserved aught of the sort.
[He might think her an idiot for her alliance with machines, furthermore when clearly machines were used on her for her torment, that such was possible because of them, and he certainly wouldn't think twice about killing her if the situation called for it... but he did not think she deserved to suffer anything like that. Not many would, honestly.]
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Maybe normally he'd shrug this off, and remain closed off, but maybe he's feeling a little generous due to her drunken stupor, or how she's very "emotionals" right now.]
'Tis never that easy, and smiling is not going to change aught at all about the reality of our situation, nor that of our own situation back whence we came. If I were to die, the only thing I would regret would have little to do with smiles, and would have everything to do with failing to complete my duty before my undoing.
Mine is not a life that's meant to enjoy the simple things, they would only serve to distract me.
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If you're as strogn (and STUBBORNN) (estubborn lol) as you make out then you shouldbe able tto hvae some nice things in your life without it beign a distaction.
Take it from me becasue I didMY friggign duty before I died and t meant EFF ALL basiccaly
Am I making sense? I'm vREY drunk.
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[And while he's loyal as fuck to those he holds dear, he's also a bit untrustworthy in the fact he'll do anything to help him complete it, even commit treason to the very people he's sworn to.
Maybe he's projecting a little on the machines.]
Regardless, I cannot be happy till I have slain Nidhogg, till I have purged him utterly. But in so doing, I am not so arrogant to not realize that so too will my life be forfeit.
[His voice is even and calm, as if this isn't a conversation about how he's going to die.]
I find little point in filling my life with small enjoyments, when it will mean naught at all in the end.
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Slaying Nidhogg would free Ishgard from its thousand years of suffering, it would end this bloody war and no one else would be made to suffer for it. Orphans would no longer be turned into soldiers, forced to face the fangs and claws of these fire breathing demons that slew their families. No longer will these fiends destroy villages, massacre innocents--or, at the very least the beasts will be less bold once their sire falls. Like vermin without direction, they will scatter to the wind, and we will be able to eradicate the vile monsters.
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You sound like agross mixtrue of what Jack wanted me to be adn what I HAD tob e. Tha'st effed up. And who or whaever made you think that way is an ASSSSSSSSSSSHOOOOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLLLEEEEEEEEEE.
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[And that's all he can really say about it. He won't deny that Nidhogg is an asshole, he's much worse than that, and he also won't deny that Ishgard is far from perfect in their way of handling people like himself. But what's done is done, and he's too far in and invested in what he's doing to back out now.]
So.
[His voice stays just as it was, not a sense of softness to it as he asks the next question:]
What's this about you being a slave? What Jack wanted you to be..?
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Hamsome Jack lockered me up for a lot of time becuse I was dangerous. Then because he wanted a spy to make peple do things he coldn't. THEN becasue he wnated to use me as a battery. Catalsyst. Do you know what one of those si??
It is when yuo put metal holes in your daugatr's head and fill her with magicals pace drugs so her powers fill up a key thing with DOUBLEE magic space eneryg magic. Then when they key is charged boom. Yu open the vault and now you have a cool dragons monster to burn up allthe banits with.
And if she doesn't want to do thehing, you put the controll colar on her and then she does the thign anyway.
THAT is ahwat a battery is, youre welcome!! ♥♥♥
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But that's cruel beyond measure.]
An oddly specific thing, batteries. A shame such befell you. Whilst we are at odds, I do not think you deserved aught of the sort.
[He might think her an idiot for her alliance with machines, furthermore when clearly machines were used on her for her torment, that such was possible because of them, and he certainly wouldn't think twice about killing her if the situation called for it... but he did not think she deserved to suffer anything like that. Not many would, honestly.]