[ Over text, it's a little hard to tell if this is helping or not - but it feels enough like it might be when he admits to having met a good human that the corners of Naminé's mouth flicker cautiously upward. The question Shealtiel asks is a reasonable one given the context, despite how it makes her pause. Naminé might not know him, exactly, but with the conversation now private, it seems safe enough to answer.
(And unlikely that he would take such a path to suss out non-humans for any kind of nefarious purposes. That knowledge doesn't serve for much around Reverein, no matter her instinctive misgivings about letting on that she's unusual.) ]
Not exactly, no. I was part of a human once, but I'm not one on my own. None of her memories belong to me. From what I hear, she and I are separated for good now.
[ Given her point of view, that hasn't actually happened yet. It's only in the nebulous future that trustworthy people from later on in her timeline have explained to her that she and Kairi are more properly differentiated. In short, it's all a bunch of extra existential garbage this poor fellow doesn't need twisting up his brain, especially when he's got his own problems to work through at the moment, so she leaves that part of the explanation aside for now. Instead, ]
That's good to hear. I'm glad that not everyone has been unkind to you.
[ Not that she would expect otherwise in a place like Reverein, but it sounded like that might have applied somewhat to his previous life as well, so it's heartening enough. And yet - that he would write a post seeking help in the first place... she racks her brain for the right thing to say. Honestly, from experience; ]
I know how easy it can be to get discouraged if you aren't lucky enough to be like everyone else. But as long as you still exist, there's always a chance for you to find your place, no matter how unusual you are. There are countless worlds and places and people, and all of them are connected in one way or another. It might not be where you expect, but there's somewhere out there for everyone, I think.
[ If she could manage it, then surely he can, too; since evidently neither of them were supposed to be to begin with, then what difference is there, really? In the past, she might not have believed in such a thing either, but the most recent couple of years have finally been kind enough to her to foster a more optimistic view on the subject. ]
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(And unlikely that he would take such a path to suss out non-humans for any kind of nefarious purposes. That knowledge doesn't serve for much around Reverein, no matter her instinctive misgivings about letting on that she's unusual.) ]
Not exactly, no.
I was part of a human once, but I'm not one on my own. None of her memories belong to me.
From what I hear, she and I are separated for good now.
[ Given her point of view, that hasn't actually happened yet. It's only in the nebulous future that trustworthy people from later on in her timeline have explained to her that she and Kairi are more properly differentiated. In short, it's all a bunch of extra existential garbage this poor fellow doesn't need twisting up his brain, especially when he's got his own problems to work through at the moment, so she leaves that part of the explanation aside for now. Instead, ]
That's good to hear. I'm glad that not everyone has been unkind to you.
[ Not that she would expect otherwise in a place like Reverein, but it sounded like that might have applied somewhat to his previous life as well, so it's heartening enough. And yet - that he would write a post seeking help in the first place... she racks her brain for the right thing to say. Honestly, from experience; ]
I know how easy it can be to get discouraged if you aren't lucky enough to be like everyone else.
But as long as you still exist, there's always a chance for you to find your place, no matter how unusual you are.
There are countless worlds and places and people, and all of them are connected in one way or another.
It might not be where you expect, but there's somewhere out there for everyone, I think.
[ If she could manage it, then surely he can, too; since evidently neither of them were supposed to be to begin with, then what difference is there, really? In the past, she might not have believed in such a thing either, but the most recent couple of years have finally been kind enough to her to foster a more optimistic view on the subject. ]