[ She looks down at her hands. She’s miserable about it. ]
The king isn’t like anyone I’ve met in Sefiro. He doesn’t have any humanity in him. He’d do anything to get an upper hand, I had to do something. Wouldn’t you have done the same thing?
If you knew someone was going to try to hurt the queen, and you could stop it by taking her place, wouldn’t you?
But when we face a problem together, we're stronger. We have different ideas. Greater understandings. And that's true of any group or army or government. The more kinds of different people you have working together, the more you can prepare and plan for different outcomes.
It's one thing to take Fuu's place on the execution block. It's another for me to not even tell her and have to find out later that they never had a chance of executing her to begin with.
Kaori is a princess who has a whole family who didn’t spend their entire lives lying to her about who she was or why they cared about her. [ Sorry Leslie. ] She has friends and hobbies and a life. She didn’t spend her whole childhood being groomed to kill here own parents. It’s different! She has a life that’s worth something.
[They sit quietly, letting Adora express it all, as best a picture of non-judgment as they can keep on. They'll give her an extra few seconds to breathe after she's said it all.]
...do you really think some lives are worth more or less than others?
[They push themselves to their feet and... put a gentle hand on Adora's shoulder. Careful to make sure she can see where their hand moves so that it hopefully doesn't feel like a threat.]
I... I hope... that one day you'll feel confident enough that you can say that to my face. That you can believe it.
But you don't have to, if it scares you. I don't need you to love me or see me as a father or... to push yourself to feel any kind of way about me. All that matters to me is your safety and happiness. You don't owe me anything.
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[They don't mean to sound judgy but is there truly any way to make that statement not sound that way.]
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The king isn’t like anyone I’ve met in Sefiro. He doesn’t have any humanity in him. He’d do anything to get an upper hand, I had to do something. Wouldn’t you have done the same thing?
If you knew someone was going to try to hurt the queen, and you could stop it by taking her place, wouldn’t you?
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But chief among them is that doubting Fuu at any point is more likely to get me killed before anyone else.
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But when we face a problem together, we're stronger. We have different ideas. Greater understandings. And that's true of any group or army or government. The more kinds of different people you have working together, the more you can prepare and plan for different outcomes.
It's one thing to take Fuu's place on the execution block. It's another for me to not even tell her and have to find out later that they never had a chance of executing her to begin with.
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But... it's hard to imagine the situation would be the same if we all hadn't had to willingly enter the fae lands unprepared.
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...do you really think some lives are worth more or less than others?
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I should go. The guards are antsy when I'm around you guys at all and you're still recovering.
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[But maybe... this is as far as they can push for today.]
...What you wrote meant a lot to me. About having a father.
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I... I hope... that one day you'll feel confident enough that you can say that to my face. That you can believe it.
But you don't have to, if it scares you. I don't need you to love me or see me as a father or... to push yourself to feel any kind of way about me. All that matters to me is your safety and happiness. You don't owe me anything.
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[But they're smiling. Adora approximating something like talking back is almost encouraging.]
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It's better than no future, which is why she came to Sefiro in the first place, but.]
... The guards will want to see to you. You should get back to bed.
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Oh, you should know. If- when we get back alive to the capital... we have a refugee from the faelands staying with us.
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