redacted ★ claude

[infreefall]

i need you to know how much i hate this image

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[infreefall]

[ she doesn't bat an eyelash at the prince thing, but... a "lesser" people. a "weak" people. ochako wrinkles her nose in distaste. those are, honestly, disgusting things to say about anyone, especially a whole group of people who are probably being judged without any good reason. ]

That's not fair - not to you, or your people, or anyone. I know there must be some kind of history behind all that anger...

[ it's a different world, and all she has to go off of is claude's word. still, she shakes her head as if rejecting whatever reasoning those people may have outright. ]

But they should at least try to understand each other. Judging you by your blood instead of the things you do... that isn't right.

[riegan]

(...)

It isn't. (He can agree with that easily.) The history is a long one but it's not as complicated as one might think. The answer is just... they're two different worlds.

(But he continues,)

A few years ago, a messenger from Fodlan arrived and asked my mother to return. My uncle had passed away suddenly and my grandfather was without an heir. She had no intention of going back home but me? I saw an opportunity to get away from my situation.

So I changed my name, changed into a new set of clothes, and left everything behind me. (He ran away from his problems.) And what did I find?

I was a brute, a rough and unreliable, uneducated, a dangerous beast... of course, no one said it to my face. No one knew who I really was. They thought I was one of them so they told me how they truly felt about outsiders like me.

(And so he kept the truth to himself. Buried it away and became a different person. The beginning of a long series of lies.)

And that's when I came up with my dream. I realized I wouldn't be accepted anywhere in the world.... so I decided to make my own.

(Instead of giving into his despair and tragedy, he decided to rise above it, even if it meant pretending and committing to a life of lies to make it happen.)

[infreefall]

[ this... explains so much. and while the honesty is appreciated - she's been trying to help claude... khalid reach this point for weeks now - it also kind of hurts to hear it. ]

I wish you didn't have to go so far.

[ to leave his family and country to escape the attempts on his life. to change his name and everything about him in order to fit in with a society that would otherwise hate him, just because he's from the "wrong" country. maybe he did do it all in order to make a better life for himself, and that's fair, but... ]

I don't think you should have to bury who are you so deep inside like that. [ it's sad, she thinks. and it must have been lonely, too. ] Especially not for people who could never really appreciate you.

But it's... really admirable to come out of it with a dream like that. Not everyone could.