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simulsimul) wrote2016-11-02 07:40 pm
simulsimul) wrote2016-11-02 07:40 pm
a thing; w/ ruinsprofessor & conductingresistance
canon
breached
confessed
dadly
future
grigori
mercenary
MEover
origin
reversal
titans
scenario list
canon: Kratos needs to stop running off
confessed: wing reflex
confessed: actual wingpull
confessed: turning Renegade
confessed: son meets father
dadliness: confrontation
dadliness: awakening
dadliness: illness
dadliness: a fundamental lack of understanding on the word 'abducted'
dadliness: updating parameters
dadliness: assassination assignation
mercenary: hiding in the library
mercenary: aftermath of librarian saviour
reversal: oracle destroyed
titans: storming the tower
titans: safety in the canyon
titans: night horrors
canon
- combo of Kratos and Zelos ending
- Zelos does the stupid thing, but not so far as his death, and is still the eighth member of the party to Derris-Kharlan.
scenarios
scenario one: Yuan tracks Kratos down at Dirk's.
breached
- canon right up until after Botta’s death
- no one uses Yuan’s name around Mithos so Mithos walks right into the Triet base with them
- cue an epic OH SHIT in which Yuan gets a lil bit beat up while covering the evacuation of the rest of the base
- until Kratos appears to intervene and have the Chosen group get Yuan out of there
- Mithos gets Kratos tho and he’s a bit mad cos, yanno, traitor and all
- time to be locked up and punished and need to be rescued
- kind of puts a crimp in the creation of the Eternal Ring plans
- mostly cos Mithos turns Kratos lifeless, with some armour to regulate his mana so he remains a seraph. can't have the seal becoming less powerful, yo
- it does mean he can only obey orders tho
- the first rescue fails miserably but at least no one dies and they know they need to reforge his key-crest
- the second rescue attempt (circumstances of canon-point under percolation) goes a little better, though Yuan almost gets killed by Kratos trying to attach the key-crest
- luckily that and the first telepathy in a while gets through and Kratos manages to break out a la Colette, and heal Yuan enough for Raine to get there
- after which, angreh father-son beatdown on Mithos.
scenarios
None yet.
confessed
- almost successful assassination lands Kratos as an injured stranger in Iselia (1-2 years pre-canon)
- recuperation leads to accidental-on-purpose 'holiday' in Iselia
- doubts result in a request for Dirk to make a key-crest like Kratos' own
- oracle room undergoes some stealth sabotage
- regeneration journey is slightly delayed, prompted by Genis and Lloyd being discovered at the ranch
- Triet is awkward. so very awkward. for the Renegades -- whose side is Kratos even on these days and why was he vanished for two years?
- initial overall journey similar to canon, save that Kratos is a bit less circumspect about advising Colette on how to cope with angel transformations
- there are more overt Dun Wanna Feelings
- then Luin, wherein things happen and the group is in town during the Desian attack. the others naturally want to fight but tis a mite difficult against an army and building-destroying magitech. luckily, angel on their side. unluckily, wingpulls in order to muster the power to cover the townspeoples' retreat
- questions and confessions ensue
- Colette rejects the key crest (for the moment) so there's still hopefully maybe ambiguity about Kratos's position re the last seal
- it wouldn't fit anyway, it's modelled for the hand like Kratos's is because he was a derp and did not specify otherwise, so Lloyd needs to make a thing to make it fit
- slow protective retreat toward Asgard.
scenarios
scenario one: Kratos confesses before Salvation; Raine wants to follow up.
scenario two: Raine's examination of an angel; and also Kratos realises how far he's put his foot in it.
scenario three: Kratos goes to taunt Yuan a little, and also ask for his help.
scenario four: in which Raine makes Kratos tell the children all the things, and Yuan takes too much amusement from it.
dadliness
- Kratos retires in Iselia under the name Irving to raise Lloyd after the death of his wife
- no exsphere. ageing occurs! so does a beard and a braid
- teaches Lloyd swordplay, but on the sly, to avoid the other villagers noticing. his daytime job is weaving
- Lloyd finds the box of their exspheres and wants details. after some prodding by Dirk, Kratos explains how exspheres are made and that one is Anna's life. Lloyd is too young yet, but when Lloyd comes of age (~15) Kratos lets him make his own decision re wearing it
- Lloyd chooses not to wear the exsphere
- Genis befriends Marble and Lloyd meets her, as in canon; this happens before the journey begins, with the fallout
- difference being that Colette is still in the village so they can't be too horrible, so they just demand Lloyd be turned over for a flogging
- Kratos stands in his stead because natch. luckily, they're only mooks and don't recognise the bearded weaver as anyone important
- gives Lloyd his guilt complex early tho
- the oracle happens much the same way except Botta doesn't quite recognise the weirdly familiar bearded swordsman
- he does when he's reporting to Yuan tho
'there was an exceptionally skilled human'
/brief physical description/
/did x other faintly recognizable thing/
and both he and Yuan are aware that Kratos has been awol for a while, so there's a moment of pure silence and dawning 'no, it couldn't be'
- but then obviously one of them has to go make sure
- cue an interruption just out of Triet.
scenarios
scenario one: Yuan feels the need to investigate; this results in Kratos injured and abducted.
scenario two: Yuan realises he can't kill Kratos with his own two hands; Kratos gets mothered.
scenario three: Kratos gets sick on the heels of his recovery. Yuan mothers him some more. Botta disapproves.
scenario four: Kratos recovers and makes an escape attempt. Sort-of.
scenario five: Kratos recovers more and talks to Botta, when not needling Yuan about his lack of preparedness.
scenario six: Sheena's contract takes a slight shift into undercover instead of assassination work.
future
- Aselia is Earth ~10,000 years in the past
- all is peachy-keen except the tree is now underground and the elvens/half-elves/some humans are in hiding in the centre of the planet, hidden thanks to the summon spirits
- Colette is working with humanitarian aid in various impoverished nations
- Zelos is a diplomat in West Asia / Middle East trying to keep the peace
- Yuan is a crotchety lecturer at Cambridge who's also HUGE into environmentalism
- Lloyd and Kratos are having family time in space
- occasionally the trio on Earth meet reincarnations of people they used to know
- but rarely at the same time and almost never in a position where they meet
- but then they start meeting them
- lots of them
- all in the same span of years
- they're starting to think something's hinky
- until the space-elves attack
- and then they know something is hinky.
scenarios
None yet.
grigori
- at some point significantly before canon, Kratos actually calls it quits
- the Church's institution calls him a fallen angel of vengeance
- really he's just going around trying to help people and avoiding being taken back to Cruxis
- assigns himself to the Chosen parties whenever he can, up to Colette
- ????? idk some kind of profit somewhere
scenarios
None yet.
mercenary
- when Yuan visits Kratos at the beach when Lloyd is 3 months old, he does not manage to escape before Anna and Lloyd return
- accidental attachment to this kidlet who likes pulling his hair
- three years later, Yuan can't stand to hold back while Kratos fights Kvar, so he throws caution to the wind to help
- Anna is still killed but they rescue Lloyd and Noishe and both are branded as traitors
- Lloyd is raised as a Renegade with Dad, Uncle Yuan and the extremely reticent Uncle Botta (how dare)
- meanwhile in Tethe'alla Yuan infiltrates the castle as the library archivist
- stays out of sight, mostly, but has a good ear around the politics thanks to recruiting Princess Hilda
- also happens to stumble on Zelos hiding in the library right after his mother's death
- look he's got a 'nephew' he can't just do nothing (even if all he meant was to recommend a book)
- unwittingly accidentally 'adopts' the Tethe'allan Chosen by virtue of being the only one who doesn't treat him like the Chosen
- sometimes Kratos brings Lloyd to visit and basically they're all separate pairs of exasperated bros
- by canon Lloyd and Kratos are wandering mercenaries, helping people on the sly while gathering intel to send back to the Renegades
- Yuan and Zelos are actively building resistance to the Church using inside knowledge
- the ninja are all Renegades
- Colette is escorted by Raine and by the priests
- yes the 'chain up the Chosen and drag her to every seal if necessary' priests
- she meets Lloyd randomly in Triet but Lloyd doesn't know her as the Chosen. they're a bit out of touch on the Journey of Regen timeline
- stuff happens and they keep missing each other up until Palmacosta, which is a warzone between the Desians (and Dorr as their figurehead) and the Renegades (with Neil as their leader)
- Colette wants to help; priests say no
- out come the chains
- Raine objects, but she has no exsphere so what can she do
- btw Genis got caught in the Iselian ranch and tossed in as a traitor to be made a host
- he gets sent to the Palmacosta ranch
- right after Neil manages to take the city, after Colette and Raine leave it, Botta takes the Palmacosta ranch and rescues Genis, among others
- Genis becomes his little shadow and is much preferable to Lloyd, in Botta's opinion
- Lloyd and Kratos are still trying to catch up to Colette to rescue her when they drop by
- Genis hears what they're trying to do and insists on coming along.
scenarios
scenario one: in which Yuan accidentally adopts a Chosen instead of a book from a library.
scenario two: in which Yuan is accidentally-deliberately adopted by the Meltokio Castle Knights.
MEover
- Mass Effect crossover someplace in the realm of 15,000 years after TOS canon
- except started before then, cos elves are really from Feros, planet of the cranky telepathic plant
- got decimated by the protheans trying to assimilate them into their empire
- elves objected, got killed a lot, fled Feros and got stuck in Aselia's orbit
- kinda forgot a few things but planted a seed from the Ferosian mother plant on Aselia
- Origin hasn't forgotten tho, kinda has a grudge against grumblegrumbleprotheansgrumble
- the entirety of TOS happened, and then some
- Kratos, Yuan, Lloyd, Colette and Zelos are the only ones left, but tis okay, they have each other
- somethingsomething natural space disaster, Aselia is destroyed but they manage to move Yggdrasill onto Derris-Kharlan and do a quarian by becoming a roaming ship
- mana is a variant of eezo lbr
- Derris-Kharlan's too big to use the mass relays, but c'mon it generates its own mass effect field so they develop tech to do hops on their own
- they're in no hurry tho, i mean lbr primarily angelic, elf and half-elf population
- so they're just bumming around their local clusters doing thorough investigations on all the things
- so much eezo on their ship
- so much
- suddenly the Normandy running from a reapers comes along to hide behind them
- reapers start shooting
- everyone on Derris-Kharlan objects
- JUDGEMENT IN SPACE
- so much profit and judging of reapers.
scenarios
None yet.
origin
- Kratos tells Lloyd the dad thing in Triet
- dad and son feelings ensue
- they culminate at the Tower of Salvation in Kratos stabbing Yggdrasill in the back
- unfortunately he does not quite die but impales Kratos against a wall and goes berserk on the Chosen party to the point of Yuan stepping in to help
- that is, by threatening to stab Kratos in the back while he's vulnerable (with Kratos's permission)
- Yggdrasill calls his bluff and fails, and Yuan does the thing
- while Yggdrasill is distracted the Chosen's group nail him but good and he retreats
- luckily while heart-stabbing happened, Kratos's cruxis crystal is still intact, and between Raine's healing and Yuan's mana transfusion he survives long enough to be taken to the Triet base and a refresher
- stuff happens in some fashion or other up until opening Origin's seal
- as it turns out, the mana tranfusion has fused the lock, so to speak, and Kratos can't unlock the seal even voluntarily
- only way to get Origin out at this point is to let him fuse with Kratos, so Kratos becomes Origin
- stipulation of this: Kratos refuses to let go of his humanity
- luckily Yuan already has a literal bond with him thanks to the mana transfusion, so with him as his summoner Kratos can keep his humanity, and only use Origin's powers when Yuan summons them
- commitment like woah for a literal eternity
- but hey, they messed up but good and it's the only way they can reunite the worlds.
scenarios
none yet.
reversal
~ 2000 years in, Kratos and Yuan conspire to kill Mithos and succeed, sorta
- he's stuck inside his exsphere, possessing people
- but he manages to survive and while Kratos and Yuan claim Derris-Kharlan for their base, he takes most of the angels as 'fallen', as well as the Eternal Sword
- most of his bases are hidden behind dimensional slips created by the sword - Iselia included
- Origin refuses to trust either Kratos or Yuan with the job, anyhow, and they don't have a summoner
- instead they're forced to fight Cruxis, embroiling the worlds in an angelic war between Cruxis and the new organisation of Chayim
- the Chosen bloodlines are more important to Cruxis than Chayim, but Mithos seals the seals so only the Chosen bloodline can flip the mana switch. Kratos and Yuan need someone to do that until they can reunite them, so the Journey remains an institution, just without compulsory death at the end
- there is angelification tho, if only so Chayim gets more soldiers and so the Chosen can defend themselves against Cruxis
- Kratos sends Anna and Lloyd to Iselia, because even though enemy territory, it's the safest place there is for them
- Anna get word to Kratos that the Desians are using Iselia as a long-term cruxis crystal cultivation location, and that the sword is held there
- her spy succeeds but is intercepted, and Mithos locks down the dimensional slip to prevent exit and access by angels for ~15 years
- Lloyd grows up in a town with a heavy half-elf population and believing he's training to help the good guys
- he has his own cruxis crystal as a host, but doesn't tell his mother due to the faith-based propaganda encouraging hosts not to bring it up or risk the powers not taking
- he wants to help though, so he steals a key-crest to ensure he can fight
- Yuan and Kratos plan to assault the town and shrine but Mithos uses the sword to interrupt travel between worlds, keeping Yuan in Tethe'alla and forcing Kratos to attack Iselia alone.
scenarios
scenario one: Iselia is attacked by Chayim to claim the sword, with the sword already gone
titans
- Yggdrasill captures Kratos before Kvar finds Anna and Lloyd, but after Kratos makes an Eternal Ring
- Yuan figures hell no and raises the Renegades to try and take Derris-Kharlan, rescue Kratos and solve the split-world problem
- the attack fails. a lot.
- Renegades are wiped out, Kratos is still in Cruxis's hands, but Yuan manages to escape with the Eternal Ring
- Cruxis follows him to Triet base, which gets destroyed and the few remaining Renegades scatter
- Botta is still around tho, helping out how he can
- mostly Yuan just goes searching for Lloyd and Anna
- doesn't manage to find them before Kvar does tho, and Kratos hears from Yggdrasill that they're dead
- this is slightly inaccurate, cos Lloyd still winds up rescued by Dirk in Iselia
- where Yuan eventually finds him, not knowing that he's 'supposed' to be dead
- so Yuan settles in Iselia for a bit to watch Lloyd and the Chosen
- cuts and dyes his hair, the whole shebang
- learns how to carpentry, invents a new use of magic
- winds up being Genis's role model just because scholar and magic-user and half-elf who can pass but also takes no shit from people
- is one of Colette's companions on the Journey when it starts
- he's been challenging their understanding of the Church's institution this whole time lbr
- Sheena is still a thing because the ninja have taken over the Tethe'allan base, which has survived, somewhat
- a grilling ensues
- sometime just after the Asgard Ranch Yuan does have to drop the bombshell
- about how the Journey is just a front, he and his bestie are angels, btw his bestie is Lloyd's dad
- how they're out to topple the institution of religion
- forget sacrificing Colette for the Regeneration, when they get to the seal they can do that without anyone dying
- and then move straight on to rescuing Kratos in Derris-Kharlan
- then they get to the Tower and realise Yggdrasill has Kratos under a Prometheusesque punishment a la 'impaled on the Eternal Sword to suffer the Seed's pain and watch the Chosen get murdered'
- luckily this does not happen, as they manage to rescue him and escape Yggdrasill instead, barely
- retreat to Botta's hiding-place in Asgard so Kratos can recover
- and also find out that Lloyd is actually alive
- the Chosen group goes around to make as many pacts as they can while in Sylvarant
- they get up to Aska when Yggdrasill sends his angels to attack Asgard
- cue Yuan and Kratos being unstoppable battle gods together
scenarios
scenario one: in which Yuan leads the Chosen's party to the Tower of Salvation to dismantle all the traditions ever, and find Kratos waiting for them in serious need of a rescue.
scenario two: in which being in safety reveals that Kratos is not precisely unscathed, but he's doing his best.
scenario three: in which Kratos is emphatically not okay, but with Yuan's help, could be.
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[Sharp, almost automatic, conveniently ignoring that a, Yuan is the most recent culprit of nearly doing that and b, that Kratos' death would further Yuan's goals, no matter how much he would prefer to avoid it at the moment.]
One wrong blow aimed for Lloyd and you'll put yourself in the way. If you're set on dying anyway, why waste it on something you could avert? And if, contrary to all appearances, you don't plan on dying, why stay like this?
[Yuan is a little bitter here. Even if he took his own off, he'd still have hundreds of years ahead of him. In a backwards sort of way he almost envies Kratos' freedom.]
Hold this.
[Brusque, he presses the tail of the braid into Kratos' hand and gets up, stalking off to find a tie for the plait.]
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[Kratos very nearly fumbles the catch, but then manages to pinch the ends of his damp hair. The braid feels oddly tight on his scalp, and he has to wonder which braid Yuan chose; most of Kratos's sort were loose and low.]
Lloyd would catch any wrong blows.
[It's a hollow remark, given that Kratos had tried so hard to protect him from Yuan.]
I don't intend to die along the way. If I did, how could I help them to the end? But I -- hmph.
[He isn't sure how to explain himself. The cruxis crystal, the key-crest -- he doesn't know what Yuan's done with them after having picked them up. So Kratos chooses his words carefully, and even then he's not sure they're right, or accurate.]
If I put the cruxis crystal back on, how lng until I forget -- again -- what it means to be human?
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Very few people intend to die, Kratos.
[When he comes back across the bathroom it's with an elastic band. He takes the end of the braid from Kratos, finishing it off with brisk, efficient twists. Kratos perhaps could have done it himself, but Yuan isn't quite in the mood to let him.]
[He leans against the counter instead of the tub when he's done, looking past Kratos rather than at him.]
It matters less when you don't know what it is to be human in the first place, I suppose.
[An aggravated noise, not quite a sigh.]
Don't turn away. That was where we lost it.
[It's not like any of them made it four thousand years without breaking a little.]
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['We'; Tethe'alla; the four of them; the three left. If no one was using them, there wouldn't be a problem. But it's a pipedream, that; aired frustration that lapses into a sigh. But they aren't going to come to an agreement, and they can no longer settle it with force of arms. Kratos would lose. He shakes his head, feeling the long tail of the braid shake, and turns right way around in the tub.]
You said you had food?
[He's starting to feel weary, and he should eat before then.]
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If you expect me to be sorry you're still here, you're going to be waiting a while.
[Maybe Kratos wasn't built for it, but without him life would be a very different prospect.]
[Maybe Yuan and Mithos would have crashed and burned a long time ago.]
You aren't wrong. But you're ignoring a useful tool for idealism's sake. Put it aside after, for all I care.
[Which is a fair amount, actually.]
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I wasn't. But we've made mistakes, because of the cruxis crystals. I think it says something about a man, to be able to acknowledge that he has.
[Or woman. Anna had been like that. Those few occasions she made mistakes, she admitted them and moved on so easily that Kratos envied her; and Lloyd had taken after her. The only time Kratos knew Lloyd dwelling on his actions was after he'd been in the ranch. Kratos had started to think he knew what it meant, to try and fix mistakes, but he's starting to see there's something else entirely to look inward and face the man he is.
[He's not sure he's strong enough for that.]
If I put it aside after, it would hypocritical. What would be the point in railing against the use of them if I used one just because things got difficult?
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Of course we've made mistakes.
[Yuan does not toss his hands up, but it's a near thing.]
But we don't have the sort of world that accepts idealism alone as coin. We have the world we've made. And our mistakes: every one of them.
[If he stops and sits in his regrets he'll be drowning in them. Yuan establishes that Kratos is eating, then looks away, as much to allow Kratos some privacy as it is to not be looking at his face.]
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Then we need to make the world accept idealism alone -- and to do that some of us must be willing to stand on our ideals, regardless of what we might face. Hand me the towel.
[He sets the tray aside and proceeds to climb out, carefully. His aches are eased but the fatigue is setting in, and he needs a hand on the wall to stave off the dizziness.]
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[Something about the people they were and can no longer be, he imagines, and dignifies nothing with an answer save for a towel.]
Here.
[Yuan has mastered the art of not quite looking.]
You're still exhausted, aren't you. There are clothes.
[He leaves only briefly, to retrieve the clothing that was dug up for Kratos. He is, however, going to stay while Kratos gets dressed, not quite trusting that wavering to keep Kratos upright.]
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[The clothes are soft and embroidered, but aren't silk, despite their looks. For all Yuan's airs, the clothes he prefers are made of simpler fabrics, a nostalgia for a simpler and less technologically advanced time -- just like the city in which he'd been born. Kratos knows they're Yuan's because they fit nearly perfectly, except across the shoulders where the shirt is just a touch too tight. It's ... familiar, nostalgic, wearing Yuan's clothes like this. Kratos had been born into something finer. He prefers these as well.
[Getting into the clothes is a slightly longer venture than it should be, also; but when Kratos is dressed he picks up his boots and his belt with its accoutrements -- the only personal possessions he has left now Yuan's seen fit to abduct him. He leaves his torn clothes for Yuan's staff to take care of.
[Then the difficult part: getting to the door. Unfortunately, while the hot bath has soothed Kratos's sore muscles, it's also paved the way for tiredness; he gets about two steps away from the wall when he stumbles, the dizziness returning.]
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...pathetic.
[Despite the words, his tone is what Kratos may recognize as begrudgingly fond.]
Try not to hurt yourself.
[And Yuan takes barely a moment to calculate before picking Kratos up wholesale, swift and decisive, one arm at the back of his knees and the other around his shoulders. It won't be Kratos' preference and in fact he anticipates an attempt at punching him, but it saves both of them the pain of Kratos trying to get through on sheer stubbornness.]
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Yes, well --
[The beginnings of that rebuttal are cut off by a startled yelp, because while the shoulder was expected, being picked up like a child is not. Without thinking Kratos lashes out with his fist, but given the angle and Yuan's ability to predict and counter ... well, anything Kratos might do ... it barely grazes his ear.]
Yuan!
[And there ... really isn't much Kratos can do about it, except grip Yuan's shoulder as Yuan carries him out of the bathroom. It is undeniably faster than Kratos trying to walk the same distance, even with help; even so, he's eminently glad that Lloyd is not here to see this. Kratos does have some pride.]
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[He can't even complain about this being what he gets when he tries to be considerate, as picking Kratos up was in no small part for his own amusement as well. Yuan huffs exasperatedly, stirring Kratos' hair, and carries him back out to the bed.]
Spare me having to watch you stumble twenty more times before getting anywhere.
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[It's a grudging huff of acquiesce, and though Kratos doesn't precisely relax, there is that persistent element of comfort in the fact that Yuan is there, ready to catch him. It's been far too long since Kratos has been around someone with whom he doesn't feel the need to hide.]
Just please tell me you aren't going to insist on tucking me in.
[Nevertheless, by the time they reach the bed Kratos is about as relaxed as he could have been, being carried, and submits to being laid down.]
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[But Yuan's gentle about laying Kratos down, and he steps away without lingering.]
Sleep, Kratos.
[However strange it is for the need to be there. When Kratos is actually asleep, Yuan has plans to handcuff him again and -- probably -- shave that damn beard; but for now, Kratos can rest.]
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[Because Yuan is the leader of the Renegades -- he all but admitted that -- and while some of the Renegades' actions have not been much better than Mithos's, lately, there is still an underlying edge of care Yuan always has for his people.
[So Kratos doesn't actually argue, beyond the snark; instead he drops his boots by the bed and puts his belt on the bureau beside it, and manages his own blankets quite well enough. When the lights dim, when Kratos closes his eyes and exhaustion pulls him in, even without mana there's a part of him still assured that Yuan is, or will be, there.]
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I don't mother.
[People who aren't healthy can't do their jobs, but it's their own lookout. There is no mothering.]
[Yuan dims the lights for Kratos, though, leaving them just up enough that he can return to his own book, and he settles -- for the time being -- across the room.]
[Kratos isn't going anywhere.]
~finis