[He listens, and nods, though when Noct gets to "born" his heart constricts in a way that makes his whole chest ache. It's such a little, plain word. He sniffles past a smile.]
Yeah well, Argentums adopt.
[He doesn't have to pass on his genes or whatever to have a kid. War makes orphans. Someone'll have to take care of them. And he'd do a better job than the ones who adopted him.
They could leave it here. He could move the conversation away to more pleasant things. It wouldn't even be hard. But eventually it would come around and they would be right back here. It was probably better to just get it all out now.]
Before we get too off-topic, I think there's something else you should know.
[He'd rather tell Noctis himself, than have it discovered or stumbled on, like what had happened with Kaname.]
After I learned where I was from, I was in a pretty bad place. I was scared. And lost. And I didn't like myself very much. [Which was a mild way of putting it. A shaky breath out.] I tried getting rid of the barcode.
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Yeah well, Argentums adopt.
[He doesn't have to pass on his genes or whatever to have a kid. War makes orphans. Someone'll have to take care of them. And he'd do a better job than the ones who adopted him.
They could leave it here. He could move the conversation away to more pleasant things. It wouldn't even be hard. But eventually it would come around and they would be right back here. It was probably better to just get it all out now.]
Before we get too off-topic, I think there's something else you should know.
[He'd rather tell Noctis himself, than have it discovered or stumbled on, like what had happened with Kaname.]
After I learned where I was from, I was in a pretty bad place. I was scared. And lost. And I didn't like myself very much. [Which was a mild way of putting it. A shaky breath out.] I tried getting rid of the barcode.