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caughtinanetwork2012-06-04 02:11 am
kagayakashi) wrote in caughtinanetwork2012-06-04 02:11 am
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[ Gracia shows up on the feed with rather curious expression. She sits by one of the cafes in the plaza, the SFC atop the table. She takes a sip of a warm vanilla milk, and with a slender finger on her lower lip, she begins to speak. A small dog can be slightly glimpsed running around behind her. It barks twice before Gracia's able to get her question out in the open. ]
Tell me something, Vatheon! What does it mean to be an "adult?" [ She leans on her elbows, and pouts. ] Is it really all about how old you are? Or is it more about how you act? That's what Father said to me once...[ Once? More like every time xD ] If that's the case, then how should an adult act?
[ Gracia sighs. This looks like something she's been pondering over for a while now. But speaking as a child at heart herself—regardless of her twenty years of age—Gracia only confused herself trying to look for an answer on her own. ] It's confusing! No matter what I do, it seems that my actions aren't those of an adult! Are adults not allowed to protect their loved ones the way they see fit?
[ Her dog, Futon, barks again. Gracia smiles and reaches down to pet him under the chin. ]
I wonder if to be an adult, I really only need to smile to become part of his strength...? I wonder if that will be enough...?
[ Her last words are no longer aimed at Vatheon's general public; they were questions aimed at herself, concerning a particular person. Her Father was always right, even if tried his best to tell Gracia otherwise. She believes in him fully, and so she wants to protect him no matter what. That was her reason for fighting—to make his dream of peace a reality. But how will she protect him now, when he gave her explicit orders not to? And that, whenever she disobeys him out of love, she is childish? Selfish, even?
Gracia is desperate for answers! (The last thing the SFC shows before she switches it off is her gulping down the rest of her milk with a satisfied and giddy smile. She sighs contentedly.) ]
Tell me something, Vatheon! What does it mean to be an "adult?" [ She leans on her elbows, and pouts. ] Is it really all about how old you are? Or is it more about how you act? That's what Father said to me once...[ Once? More like every time xD ] If that's the case, then how should an adult act?
[ Gracia sighs. This looks like something she's been pondering over for a while now. But speaking as a child at heart herself—regardless of her twenty years of age—Gracia only confused herself trying to look for an answer on her own. ] It's confusing! No matter what I do, it seems that my actions aren't those of an adult! Are adults not allowed to protect their loved ones the way they see fit?
[ Her dog, Futon, barks again. Gracia smiles and reaches down to pet him under the chin. ]
I wonder if to be an adult, I really only need to smile to become part of his strength...? I wonder if that will be enough...?
[ Her last words are no longer aimed at Vatheon's general public; they were questions aimed at herself, concerning a particular person. Her Father was always right, even if tried his best to tell Gracia otherwise. She believes in him fully, and so she wants to protect him no matter what. That was her reason for fighting—to make his dream of peace a reality. But how will she protect him now, when he gave her explicit orders not to? And that, whenever she disobeys him out of love, she is childish? Selfish, even?
Gracia is desperate for answers! (The last thing the SFC shows before she switches it off is her gulping down the rest of her milk with a satisfied and giddy smile. She sighs contentedly.) ]
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[He shifts so his face is fully concealed by his hair now.]
Nobody can tell. The human heart is not so simple.
[Mitsuhide's voice grows quiet, and as soft as it can possibly become. Her way of seeing the world truly was unique, and incredibly simplified.]
You cannot expect such a thing to heal quickly.
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But it will, right Father? Even if it seems like it won't?
[ She's asking for both their sakes. ]
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[He wishes she had not asked that. He cannot lie about it, but the answer can only hurt her. A soft sigh passes from his lips before he continues.]
I do not know. It is likely that the wounds will never fully heal.
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[ But she knows the feeling of despair. She takes herself back to before Vatheon, to a time of uncertainty and darkness. Alone, and isolated, and frightened, and confined to an empty manor. Whispers of "he's dead, he's not going to come back," fill her mind, keeping her awake on the coldest of nights. Perhaps she shouldn't be so pained to hear that wounds may never fully heal.
Once upon a time, even Gracia believed in the same thing. ]
...It will heal. One day.
[ But she is a woman bound by hope and light. Even the tiniest part of her can still believe in a better day. She is defiant that way; it is what Motochika admires the most about her, and what sets her gentleness apart from her father's. ]
I'll...I'll fight for that to happen. I'll do whatever it takes for it to be so!
[ And that was how she was back home. The only one who held on to Mitsuhide's shadow, the only person who never gave herself time to think that maybe, just maybe, Mitsuhide was actually dead. ]