I... don't know that I could be with them, even if I wanted to.
[that much is true. his gaze avert just a little, remembering what happened on that day.] Luna... said her goodbyes to me, in a dream.
[and he's not sure, with how that went, that even if there's a proper afterlife, that he'd be with her.] I know wherever I go... she'll watch.
[noct knows this. "When the world falls down all around you, and hope is lost, when you find yourself alone amid a lightless place, look to the distance. Know that I am there, and that I watch over you always."
he knows that luna wants nothing but his happiness.]
...I know that it may seem crazy. [because it is crazy. it's completely crazy.] But... it's my choice, Milla.
Luna and my dad, they... would both want me to. I've never had those choices before, to do what I want. It's always been... what I have to do, as Lucian royalty. What I want has never mattered.
[he accepts his duty now, but he never wanted it. he's the type of person who is perfectly content to sit at a riverbed and fish from sun up until sun down.
making this choice, even if it's stupid and fleeting and based off barely anything—
it's his choice, one he wants to make for himself and nobody else. if milla doesn't want to stand at his side then, when they exist in the same plane of existence, he'll... make what he must of it. but he has to make this choice for himself.]
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[that much is true. his gaze avert just a little, remembering what happened on that day.] Luna... said her goodbyes to me, in a dream.
[and he's not sure, with how that went, that even if there's a proper afterlife, that he'd be with her.] I know wherever I go... she'll watch.
[noct knows this. "When the world falls down all around you, and hope is lost, when you find yourself alone amid a lightless place, look to the distance. Know that I am there, and that I watch over you always."
he knows that luna wants nothing but his happiness.]
...I know that it may seem crazy. [because it is crazy. it's completely crazy.] But... it's my choice, Milla.
Luna and my dad, they... would both want me to. I've never had those choices before, to do what I want. It's always been... what I have to do, as Lucian royalty. What I want has never mattered.
[he accepts his duty now, but he never wanted it. he's the type of person who is perfectly content to sit at a riverbed and fish from sun up until sun down.
making this choice, even if it's stupid and fleeting and based off barely anything—
it's his choice, one he wants to make for himself and nobody else. if milla doesn't want to stand at his side then, when they exist in the same plane of existence, he'll... make what he must of it. but he has to make this choice for himself.]