I won't stop you. I don't have any interest in seeing you die again.
[At least he's doing a better job of keeping it together this time. And... admittedly, it's kind of nice that they can talk like this. Clearly, he's comfortable enough to be speaking so levelly with her, a scenario which in itself was earned the hard way, with plenty of shouting and tears preceding it.
It's a rough compromise to feel like she's sacrificing the Warrior of Light he might remember in sitting idle. Them and all the people of the First, and ostensibly Eorzea too. And it's not like she'll ever live long enough to see the end result of his efforts, even if she does let him research ways to preserve his knowledge going home. In that sense, it feels foolish to even presume she could make a silver lining out of sacrificing even one of those worlds, to save just one Hades across many parallel worlds.
But even though he knows of the result ahead of time, it's unlikely he knows anything of Ardbert. And that one overlooked factor was the key to their combined success across all these worlds. Only the Warriors here would know of him, and it's doubtful any of them would have egregious enough of a slip of mind to disclose the final nail in the coffin.]
Whatever you decide to fight for... will you fight, then?
[A reason to keep going is what he needs. She will not deny him that, if that's what it takes to pick himself back up again.]
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[At least he's doing a better job of keeping it together this time. And... admittedly, it's kind of nice that they can talk like this. Clearly, he's comfortable enough to be speaking so levelly with her, a scenario which in itself was earned the hard way, with plenty of shouting and tears preceding it.
It's a rough compromise to feel like she's sacrificing the Warrior of Light he might remember in sitting idle. Them and all the people of the First, and ostensibly Eorzea too. And it's not like she'll ever live long enough to see the end result of his efforts, even if she does let him research ways to preserve his knowledge going home. In that sense, it feels foolish to even presume she could make a silver lining out of sacrificing even one of those worlds, to save just one Hades across many parallel worlds.
But even though he knows of the result ahead of time, it's unlikely he knows anything of Ardbert. And that one overlooked factor was the key to their combined success across all these worlds. Only the Warriors here would know of him, and it's doubtful any of them would have egregious enough of a slip of mind to disclose the final nail in the coffin.]
Whatever you decide to fight for... will you fight, then?
[A reason to keep going is what he needs. She will not deny him that, if that's what it takes to pick himself back up again.]