[ He is drinking. No reason not to, and this stuff is Ma Jiang. Good stuff.
That said, he suffers under no delusions that his way of thinking is noble. Everything that he does here, all of this searching he goes the extra mile for—none of it is for this act of being a hero, for serving Blanc and its people. He serves Blanc and its people so that he might best serve his own people. He keeps the trail towards a solution back home as a top priority, and whether or not it's fair to or not, has expectations that the others will do the same.
In fact, he'll make them, if he can. For the Survey Corps, that's the part he's willing to play. That you could almost mistake it for being more on task to Blanc than anyone else here is an unintentional side effect. ]
I do. [ Intel? No, nothing about that. But his tone is bleakly firm. ] I know that it's not enough. If we listen to them, everything we do is for a country we have no fealty for—and if we care about that [ as he does ], if we place our trust in the brass, who's left to blame when they're not up to the task?
Many people died in Palamede. In Graupera. If we don't keep a step ahead of our enemies, that's not going to change.
[ A solemn topic, and one he clearly takes seriously despite the setting... but he doesn't speak to her like they're fighting, or like he's trying to prove something. This is just the way it is, and he didn't at all approach with the intent to see this conversation through to this point. ]
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That said, he suffers under no delusions that his way of thinking is noble. Everything that he does here, all of this searching he goes the extra mile for—none of it is for this act of being a hero, for serving Blanc and its people. He serves Blanc and its people so that he might best serve his own people. He keeps the trail towards a solution back home as a top priority, and whether or not it's fair to or not, has expectations that the others will do the same.
In fact, he'll make them, if he can. For the Survey Corps, that's the part he's willing to play. That you could almost mistake it for being more on task to Blanc than anyone else here is an unintentional side effect. ]
I do. [ Intel? No, nothing about that. But his tone is bleakly firm. ] I know that it's not enough. If we listen to them, everything we do is for a country we have no fealty for—and if we care about that [ as he does ], if we place our trust in the brass, who's left to blame when they're not up to the task?
Many people died in Palamede. In Graupera. If we don't keep a step ahead of our enemies, that's not going to change.
[ A solemn topic, and one he clearly takes seriously despite the setting... but he doesn't speak to her like they're fighting, or like he's trying to prove something. This is just the way it is, and he didn't at all approach with the intent to see this conversation through to this point. ]