[ thank you for respecting his fatalism, aerith..... but that does give him pause. is it cruel, to think the world is doomed to be the way it is? there is the starting wobble of a thought, a half-formed and uncertain thing, before it fades away. ]
If it's cruel, then the world itself is cruel.
[ he is not such a genocidal maniac that he'd be like SEPHIROTH HAD THE RIGHT IDEA but these memories have only shown him that every world is as awful as the next. the tone and timbre of his voice turns very calm. ]
...Our village was remote, and ostracized to begin with. So I wandered. When someone found me, they sold me to a local crime syndicate. I've been in their... care until recently.
It's a common enough story. Most orphans aren't found by someone who wants what's best for them.
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If it's cruel, then the world itself is cruel.
[ he is not such a genocidal maniac that he'd be like SEPHIROTH HAD THE RIGHT IDEA but these memories have only shown him that every world is as awful as the next. the tone and timbre of his voice turns very calm. ]
...Our village was remote, and ostracized to begin with. So I wandered. When someone found me, they sold me to a local crime syndicate. I've been in their... care until recently.
It's a common enough story. Most orphans aren't found by someone who wants what's best for them.