[ It's hard to think about this and even more difficult to think of Edelgard without remembering the palace. Who was in it beyond their troops - Dorothea, Petra - and how it all ended in the throne room. The cost of everything in all their choices, with his included as he's no exception.
But what Petra says isn't what he expects; something he should know better about than by now with all the mismatched information they all know and even from what they've compared, let alone what they're each keeping back since Claude doesn't doubt he's the only one who hasn't shared everything. He takes another moment to consider what Petra's said, and there is one more commonality there. ]
Sounds a little bit like the Alliance is. Or... was. I guess it's past tense now. There was always all kinds of infighting but even that was at no level comparable to what the Empire had in it with centuries more of history there.
[ There's no temptation to make that a joke for once since levity doesn't have a place here with what they're discussing. Claude looks back to the fruit in his hands, slowly spinning it again. ]
All of it had to factor into what she wanted to accomplish in bringing about change for what she wanted to happen, including what that would mean for anywhere outside of Fodlan based on giving Brigid its autonomy back. Edelgard also told me I didn't fully understand Fodlan's suffering and she's likely right about that. Much of it includes things you'd have to grow up with to grasp, I suppose.
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But what Petra says isn't what he expects; something he should know better about than by now with all the mismatched information they all know and even from what they've compared, let alone what they're each keeping back since Claude doesn't doubt he's the only one who hasn't shared everything. He takes another moment to consider what Petra's said, and there is one more commonality there. ]
Sounds a little bit like the Alliance is. Or... was. I guess it's past tense now. There was always all kinds of infighting but even that was at no level comparable to what the Empire had in it with centuries more of history there.
[ There's no temptation to make that a joke for once since levity doesn't have a place here with what they're discussing. Claude looks back to the fruit in his hands, slowly spinning it again. ]
All of it had to factor into what she wanted to accomplish in bringing about change for what she wanted to happen, including what that would mean for anywhere outside of Fodlan based on giving Brigid its autonomy back. Edelgard also told me I didn't fully understand Fodlan's suffering and she's likely right about that. Much of it includes things you'd have to grow up with to grasp, I suppose.