It is. But it's done, and it's in the past. What happened then has no bearing on what happens now, as you reminded us. We're writing our own destiny.
[He smiles a little, though it doesn't quite reach his eyes. He's proud of Jun, but yeah that was. A lot to take in recently.]
I'm all right. I feel better having some answers, but at the same time, I feel weirdly guilty and naive... We threw around this dream as teens without realizing what it must've been like for the older seraphim. The ones who remembered how it used to be. Of course we couldn't force anyone to forgive humans for what they'd done, but it makes me wonder what they thought of me and Sorey.
Did they see a new generation with a lofty dream doing everything they could to make it happen? Or did they see us as misguided youth, doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past...?
We'll never know, and it doesn't really matter, but I feel like I would have approached some things differently if I had known. But, that might have drove us apart as children, too...
[He takes another sip of his boba.]
Zenrus trained me early and often when it came to preparing for the outside world. He knew I would need to help Sorey and protect him since he was completely clueless about human society. But more than that, Zenrus was shielding us from how terrible things really were, and he held back the burdens that the past tried to put on us.
We ended up dealing with the sins of the past anyway. As you know, the legacy of the last Shepherd was that of complete annihilation and madness, and we had to break the cycle ourselves. These revelations about the Shepherd's origins are just more of the same.
Maybe our dream of a peaceful coexistence between humans and seraphim was based on a falsehood, but it was a dream that we made manifest back then... and still do, every day. That's what really matters.
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[He smiles a little, though it doesn't quite reach his eyes. He's proud of Jun, but yeah that was. A lot to take in recently.]
I'm all right. I feel better having some answers, but at the same time, I feel weirdly guilty and naive... We threw around this dream as teens without realizing what it must've been like for the older seraphim. The ones who remembered how it used to be. Of course we couldn't force anyone to forgive humans for what they'd done, but it makes me wonder what they thought of me and Sorey.
Did they see a new generation with a lofty dream doing everything they could to make it happen? Or did they see us as misguided youth, doomed to repeat the mistakes of the past...?
We'll never know, and it doesn't really matter, but I feel like I would have approached some things differently if I had known. But, that might have drove us apart as children, too...
[He takes another sip of his boba.]
Zenrus trained me early and often when it came to preparing for the outside world. He knew I would need to help Sorey and protect him since he was completely clueless about human society. But more than that, Zenrus was shielding us from how terrible things really were, and he held back the burdens that the past tried to put on us.
We ended up dealing with the sins of the past anyway. As you know, the legacy of the last Shepherd was that of complete annihilation and madness, and we had to break the cycle ourselves. These revelations about the Shepherd's origins are just more of the same.
Maybe our dream of a peaceful coexistence between humans and seraphim was based on a falsehood, but it was a dream that we made manifest back then... and still do, every day. That's what really matters.