[Because this is certainly a rainforest. That's a thing that it is, even if it's very different from Sumeru's.
At her words, he shakes his head faintly.]
I appreciate the thought, but I require no comfort over this. While certainly not a pleasant thing to think about, I consider myself lucky. I've gotten to experience living side-by-side with humanity in a way that no others of my kind ever could.
[I hope you've enjoyed the part you've played these five hundred years.
And, truly, they were a gift he could never hope to repay. He doesn't know - will never know, now - if the Hydro Archon had a direct hand in the fact that he was born in the form of a human, or if it was coincidence, or something else. But she certainly took full advantage of it to manipulate the outcome, in a way that he doesn't resent her for at all.
Her plan would no more have worked without his love of humanity than it would have without Furina's endless theater. And it had to come from him, and be freely given, because if it had come to be in any other way, the grudges the dragons bear towards the heavens would have left Fontaine doomed in the end.
He did not, would never, inherit her position as Archon. But he inherited the 'of Justice' all the same.]
I can only hope that when I am able to do so, that they do not look with disgust upon my decision to live among humans and extend my hand to them. But even if they do, I do not regret it.
[To lay the acts of the usurpers at the feet of their creations is not justice. That was his answer.]
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[Because this is certainly a rainforest. That's a thing that it is, even if it's very different from Sumeru's.
At her words, he shakes his head faintly.]
I appreciate the thought, but I require no comfort over this. While certainly not a pleasant thing to think about, I consider myself lucky. I've gotten to experience living side-by-side with humanity in a way that no others of my kind ever could.
[I hope you've enjoyed the part you've played these five hundred years.
And, truly, they were a gift he could never hope to repay. He doesn't know - will never know, now - if the Hydro Archon had a direct hand in the fact that he was born in the form of a human, or if it was coincidence, or something else. But she certainly took full advantage of it to manipulate the outcome, in a way that he doesn't resent her for at all.
Her plan would no more have worked without his love of humanity than it would have without Furina's endless theater. And it had to come from him, and be freely given, because if it had come to be in any other way, the grudges the dragons bear towards the heavens would have left Fontaine doomed in the end.
He did not, would never, inherit her position as Archon. But he inherited the 'of Justice' all the same.]
I can only hope that when I am able to do so, that they do not look with disgust upon my decision to live among humans and extend my hand to them. But even if they do, I do not regret it.
[To lay the acts of the usurpers at the feet of their creations is not justice. That was his answer.]