[Gilgamesh cuts in abruptly with disagreement. He just lets the words hang for a moment before elaborating; the hands on his face have their typical effect, turn him docile and wring what's left of his aggravation clean out of him. He cannot even remember why he was angry, just moments ago, so gentle those fingers are despite so many they have killed.]
You know how to speak and to listen. You know how to plant flowers and play in the snow. You know how to delight children and how to bring me the very best gifts. You know how to live, for all you might claim you are already dead. You know how to do so much, it shames me you'd deny it.
[He slips their hands together, and though his face remains very stern and very proud, he praises Setsuna openly and without regrets.]
You need not understand me at all. You need only stay with me. What matters to me most... is that you remain.
[The King need not walk alone. Isn't that the lesson Setsuna, and the others taught him? Though at his core, he still refuses it, still expects to be abandoned and betrayed, there is a fledgling belief in the idea that he can have something more in this world. Something that the Grail as well as his station had always forbidden him.
He can have pleasure, earnest pleasure, in the company of others. And so, day by day, he lets go more and more of what's been left behind.]
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[Gilgamesh cuts in abruptly with disagreement. He just lets the words hang for a moment before elaborating; the hands on his face have their typical effect, turn him docile and wring what's left of his aggravation clean out of him. He cannot even remember why he was angry, just moments ago, so gentle those fingers are despite so many they have killed.]
You know how to speak and to listen. You know how to plant flowers and play in the snow. You know how to delight children and how to bring me the very best gifts. You know how to live, for all you might claim you are already dead. You know how to do so much, it shames me you'd deny it.
[He slips their hands together, and though his face remains very stern and very proud, he praises Setsuna openly and without regrets.]
You need not understand me at all. You need only stay with me. What matters to me most... is that you remain.
[The King need not walk alone. Isn't that the lesson Setsuna, and the others taught him? Though at his core, he still refuses it, still expects to be abandoned and betrayed, there is a fledgling belief in the idea that he can have something more in this world. Something that the Grail as well as his station had always forbidden him.
He can have pleasure, earnest pleasure, in the company of others. And so, day by day, he lets go more and more of what's been left behind.]