Not the entirety of the government was corrupt, naturally. And what is, I will uncover and reveal to the world, so that it may be removed, and the country recover.
[how grand. jae-ha hums faintly, considering that. he's not the type of person to follow the idea of duty, instead calling it his own taste in aesthetics and what he finds beautiful.]
Sounds burdensome.
Who left such a thing on your shoulders? They must have meant quite a lot to you.
Even princes, queens, those who are expected to have a loyalty to their country and its best interests in mind - it's a matter of lineage and learning from a young age that they're meant to care... well, most of the time.
[lmao bratty princess yona]
Moreso if your government was corrupt. Unless you grew up specifically to cut those parts out purely out of spite -
But the simpler guess is that someone who inspired you told you that it was something worth doing.
[Sousei just shrugs, crossing his arms quietly. As he thinks about it... well, what Jae-ha says is entirely reasonable, and he experienced it for himself.]
... It was a promise made, I suppose, with someone who was important to me. ["Was", Sousei please, he's still alive.] I've come to see the worth in it for myself as I have grown.
... Dancing in circles around it will not help either of us, I suppose, when your curiosity is this persistent. I will be plain. No, I was not a soldier. I was bait.
Intended to be used and discarded. With his dream, he showed me that I could be more than what my purpose had been. That is all.
Somewhere along the way it became a conversation, rather than remaining an exchange. At the very least, I'm not talking to you solely because I need to size up your character.
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[And then, with a touch of confidence that quite honestly borders on arrogant, but in that really annoying Sousei way:]
I got away with it the first time because I was in the right. They could hardly punish me for doing my duty and protecting my country.
[1/2]
I see no reason to hide who or what I'm interested in.
[AS PER ALWAYS!!!]
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Ah? So you went rogue and they rolled over because you were on the moral high ground? Maybe it's not as corrupt as I expected.
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[For the record.
As for that...]
Not the entirety of the government was corrupt, naturally. And what is, I will uncover and reveal to the world, so that it may be removed, and the country recover.
That is, after all, my proper duty.
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[how grand. jae-ha hums faintly, considering that. he's not the type of person to follow the idea of duty, instead calling it his own taste in aesthetics and what he finds beautiful.]
Sounds burdensome.
Who left such a thing on your shoulders? They must have meant quite a lot to you.
[WHO WOULD CHOOSE THAT PATH IN THEIR OWN]
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Why are you so certain that it was a duty left upon my shoulders by someone else?
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Even princes, queens, those who are expected to have a loyalty to their country and its best interests in mind - it's a matter of lineage and learning from a young age that they're meant to care... well, most of the time.
[lmao bratty princess yona]
Moreso if your government was corrupt. Unless you grew up specifically to cut those parts out purely out of spite -
But the simpler guess is that someone who inspired you told you that it was something worth doing.
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You are correct.
[Sousei just shrugs, crossing his arms quietly. As he thinks about it... well, what Jae-ha says is entirely reasonable, and he experienced it for himself.]
... It was a promise made, I suppose, with someone who was important to me. ["Was", Sousei please, he's still alive.] I've come to see the worth in it for myself as I have grown.
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Like yeah, he knew he was right. Apparently both of them can be arrogant here!]
Ah, childhood promises.
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Wipe that look off of your face. A lucky guess is hardly reason to be so smug.
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[he didn't actually expect to be right. even if his mouth doesn't say it, his face does: 'a little cliche?']
Well, I'd heard that children are a bit more impressionable that way....
[he didn't exactly get a chance to experience it for himself]
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I was not an impressionable child.
[Does he look like he was impressionable at any point?
A beat, and he adds, glancing away contemplatively:]
But... it was a concept I had never heard before. Something that had never crossed my mind. And I found that... it caught my attention in that way.
[And his entire heart and soul at that.]
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[jaded from the beginning.
but regardless jae-ha hums faintly at the explanation, tilting his head]
A purpose you didn't know you could have?
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... Dancing in circles around it will not help either of us, I suppose, when your curiosity is this persistent. I will be plain. No, I was not a soldier. I was bait.
Intended to be used and discarded. With his dream, he showed me that I could be more than what my purpose had been. That is all.
[That is why he's so attached to it.]
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.... "That is all"?
[considering how life-changing it sounds
jae-ha finds the way that it's described a bit surprising]
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Yes.
Now you know where my motivations stem from. You do not need any more information than that.
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Do I look like that kind of person?
[shady droopy eyes]
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... We were having this walk as an exchange of information. I do not know why you seem so surprised that I would take it as such.
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Captain could have done that all on her own.
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You have a great deal of faith in her. Not simply because she's taken you in.
[Right?]
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[A pause.]
Was that enough information for you?
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No. Will it make you feel better if I explicitly ask?
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If you have questions, ask them. You're not my Captain - I don't have to read and obey your needling prompts if I don't want to.
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... But very well then. If we are having a conversation, then I will ask.
[Off the rails, really:]
If not for the sake of deriving my character, why were you asking about my motivations?
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[he could leave it there, answering a question with a question, but no, he'll be nicer now that sousei's admitted they're having a conversation - ]
I don't like most soldiers, but you carry yourself like one, uniform and all.
I was curious what drives you if it's not greed, lust or money.
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