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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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[He doesn't intend to disturb the family either, but the sound of his cane on stone draws their attention anyway -- though it hardly stops them from clinging. Acacius lifts his head, tears on his face and breathing ragged, but face shining. His voice is choked.]
Thank you -- thank you, Commander. I can't even begin to thank you.
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[But it was Yuan's doing, wasn't it? The applications were stuck in the hell of paperwork and bureaucracy and suspicion; and it was Yuan that nudged them along, and Yuan that delivered them here, thanks to Kratos's timely interference.]
[It's hard to manage a scowl in the wake of all the warm sorts of feelings the reunion is trying to evoke, but Yuan makes an effort. It doesn't succeed very well. He has in no way performed miracles, nor should he be expected to.]
[Eventually, resignedly, he sighs.]
There's no need to get hung up on it. You're welcome; that's enough.
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I don't think you understand, Commander. My son is -- not well. Without medicine, without proper care, he would have died. Even if my family had managed to find a safe place in Tethe'alla -- he would have died. I know what people here think of half-elves throwing their weight around. You didn't have to. But you've saved my son's life. That's worth much, much more than I can give.
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[This is different, and the weight Acacius gives to it is one Yuan abruptly finds he has no idea how to bear.]
...I'm not asking anything.
[He's not oblivious to the ways of the world; he knows how favors go and lives are traded. He has any number of them saved himself. This has no calculations attached, though, and Yuan never expected there to be, past the initial gain of information from Acacius in the markets.]
You have the resources for the proper care now, correct?
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[Yuan really doesn't know how to accept it when people appreciate him. It makes this whole venture worth it, even with the hard rock of emotion lodged under Kratos's ribs.]
Yes. We'll manage. My employer has promised to help with the care, if we teach his people our potting and glazing techniques.
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[Yuan quashes the urge to flee before that set of grateful gazes. It's beneath him to flee something uncomfortable.]
[He unfolds himself enough to offer the card from immigration to Acacius.]
There are follow-up check-ins, for permanent citizenship. The details are here. You shouldn't encounter any difficulty, but if more things need to be signed, I shouldn't be difficult to find.
[It's... an oblique offer of help. It's as far as Yuan's going.]
I'll leave you to your reunion.
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Thank you.
[It's a little softer than the previous ones had been, if only in deference to the commander's obvious difficulty with gratitude. Before Yuan can step away, the eldest daughter breaks off from the hug to dart out and hug Yuan hard. It lasts only a moment before she dashes back into the circle of her family.]
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[Hugs from a recently Tethe'allan girl who doesn't even speak any of the same language he does. Not anywhere near what Yuan had expected in his future.]
...You're welcome.
[It takes longer than it really should before he collects himself, steps away toward Kratos.]
We should go.
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[Instead, he simply follows Yuan quietly as they return to the remaining rickshaw. Nothing gets said during the ride back to headquarters, and Kratos doensn't break the silence while they return to Yuan's office.
[Yuan is not pleased. Kratos isn't going to make it worse by talking first.]
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[He isn't acting on it. He is not. And he's definitely not having any discussion with Kratos on this topic that might get loud here in headquarters, where there's any chance of it overheard.]
[Yuan looks at the desk, not at Kratos.]
I need for you to be somewhere else right now. Don't do anything stupid, and come back when we would typically return home.
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Yes, Master Ka-Fai.
[It's the first time Yuan's ever sent him away. It stings. It stings all the more for knowing Kratos had done it to himself, the same way it had stung when he implied Yuan was lesser for wanting to change the circumstances of his slavery.
[But he doesn't know whether an apology would make it better right now. So he simply obeys, removing himself from Yuan's office with a bow. There's usually something to do in one of the many kitchens the staff use during their work hours; occasionally, there's children to watch for the parents who can't.
[Kratos manages to find things to do, as even and blank as he hasn't been almost since he arrived in Nidavellir. It's easier than having to think about the crack in his emotions that had been wrought by watching Acacius reunite with his family. When the time comes, he's at Yuan's door, reaches out to open it -- hesitates. Knocks instead.]
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[No. They'll speak of this later. All the same, Yuan spends longer than he'd like with his fingers laced together and his forehead resting in his linked hands. Damn it all.]
[He does manage to get his work done. Eventually. The day isn't a complete write-off, anyway. Yuan's fastening his cloak about his shoulders again when the knock at his door comes.]
[...Finding Kratos there is almost a surprise. Kratos hasn't felt the need to knock in a long time. He's unsure where he stands with Yuan again, and that's... well, not entirely Yuan's fault. Only partially. He sighs at Kratos, stands away from the door so Kratos can get what he needs.]
Is what's at home sufficient for tonight, or shall we stop?
[It's almost normal. Almost.]
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[As before, Kratos keeps his head slightly lowered, deferential but not cowering. It's enough of a difference from his usual demeanour. He steps into the office only to gather his coat, and then follows Yuan silently outside to a rickshaw.
[Kratos doesn't know what Yuan is thinking. The silence is not precisely stony -- but it's near enough that Kratos doesn't dare break it. When they reach home he follows Yuan in and hangs up his coat, but rather than going immediately to the kitchen to prepare dinner, he waits for Yuan's direction. This is not a usual evening.]
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[There are some things he'll need to sort out first. He hangs his cloak and turns to Kratos.]
What were you thinking?
[It's not outraged, angry as it might have been earlier in the day. Yuan sounds wearier now, worn-down and frustrated.]
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There was no logical reason for it to be you to sign for them. I didn't think I could convince you it would be worthwhile.
[He doesn't lift his head as he speaks, and for a moment he seems as if he's going to say more; but then he quiets without finishing. He isn't sure, right now, whether an apparent judgment will help. An apology, also, seems premature.]
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And it didn't occur to you to ask.
[Putting aside the fact that in retrospect it does make a kind of logical sense, to have someone who's familiar with the family and already -- somewhat -- sympathetic to the situation be the one to look after it...]
Why was going behind my back to force me into it your first course of action? I'd thought--
[Yuan cuts himself off hard there. Grow up, Ka-Fai; you can't own a man and be his friend. You should have known that, and wishful thinking was all that was saying otherwise. He shakes his head, short and brisk, dismissing whatever he might have thought.]
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[There's nothing he can say. Even the reassurance that he'd been careful no one thought he was doing it of his own design isn't really much more than an excuse.]
Forgive me.
[This is soft, a touch raw, because it's all he has; though Kratos hardly deserves it. It seems even being a slave isn't enough to tell him what Yuan might have experienced when he was a youth. Of course it isn't; Yuan doesn't treat him like a slave.]
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[There's no value in being angry at him, now that explanations are made and Yuan is fairly sure it won't be done again, but he isn't sure he knows how to reach back in any valuable way.]
[Now what?]
You still haven't explained why, exactly, you thought it was worthwhile.
[Yuan can guess, actually. He has a few thoughts on it. He wants to know what Kratos was thinking.]
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I thought it might help you to see the joy you can create with the achievements you've already made.
[Yuan strives for acceptance from his peers, but can't seem to see the small ways he can enrich others using his accomplishments.]
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[...when Yuan stopped to think about it long enough, anyway; when he'd progressed beyond sheer sharp why would you into actual thinking. His next exhalation is sharp, exasperated.]
On that front, at least, you did succeed.
[After a fashion. It's just the methods that still leave Yuan feeling... stung. Or something in that general vicinity; he hasn't examined the hurt, such as it is, closely enough to tell.]
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[... But he'd really rather not. Softly:]
How can I make this better?
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[Yuan blanks, temporarily, trying to remember if anyone's ever asked him something like that before. The act of asking alone, apparently, does a lot in and of itself. Almost unwillingly, something about him softens slightly.]
Don't do that again.
[Or something like it, anyway; Yuan doubts the exact situation will arise again.]
...do you understand all of why?
[This last is much quieter, and sounds almost like it need be dragged from him, in part because there is some implication of explanation in it.]
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[It's as near as Kratos can guess, and it's a prompt response; but then Kratos hesitates, and his head ducks a little further.]
... I don't want to assume I've got all of it right.
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[...it's still so strange to see Kratos making himself more physically subservient. Half of Yuan wants to shake him till he stops. The other, wiser half stops short of physical contact.]
And you-- assumed you couldn't ask, for something not logical.
[It is as close as Yuan can come, right now, to saying you have told me that somehow, despite my best efforts, I am someone you fear to approach. How can he fault Kratos for that? This is where the weariness comes from, not the anger. He shakes his head as though to dismiss it.]
...I presume you have the operational security dangers understood, as well?
[Since they touched on it; and it is the fastest way Yuan can think of to move on.]
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Yes. I made sure no one knew I was doing so of my own cognizance. Yuan--
[His gaze has lifted a bit, but not quite enough to actually look Yuan in the face. He's not sure how he meant to follow that word, either, except that somehow Yuan has gotten the impression that Kratos is reticent to talk to him.]
Sometimes it seems like you can't bear to be happy. I thought you would say no because you would think you're not worthy of seeing someone else's joy.
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