❛ nohr first — but this is only old gold & rot, now. look at this despair & ruin — ❜ my little prince, he wanted to say, what has the world done to you? but, those words never came. instead, he simply observed the young man that leon had grown up to be ( he remembered the days where he’d carry his son on his shoulders, the day he knew the legendary tome, brynhildr, had found a worthy mage. how proud he was then!! as it seemed, those days were long gone. this was the future of despair ).
❛ i’ve seen what this world has become — i am sorry that i couldn’t protect you from all of this. ❜ if there was anything that the king of the dusk truly held dear in his heart, it was his CHILDREN. beyond the queens who had taken his heart & soul with them to the grave, more than the lovers who had dared chase away the demons in his head ( they expected him to be devoted & he was!! they expected his love & he gave it!! ) — his children were the proof of love, the proof that what he felt was REAL — & this was the fate in store.
my father is DEAD. the words seemed to reach deep within him, a sad sigh escaping from parted lips. that was the strange pull he’d felt, the weariness that seemed to take hold of him all too suddenly. what was left of him in this cursed world would drag him to the world beyond ( but, he’d get to see katarina, he’d get to see arete — ).
❛ dead… i see. that does not change who i am, & that does not change the fact that i am still your father, whether or not this is the world i know or if this is but a spell that i shall wake from — leon — ❜
❛ you have become cold — nohr first does not mean that you should close yourself off like this. are you not part of nohr? once, i was told the same thing. nohr first, but upon that throne, the king is the very heart of nohr; you must not lose your humanity. ❜ perhaps it was too late for words like these. the way leon said NOHR FIRST sent a chill through his weary heart. nohr first, that is the way of the king of the dusk, spoke his father’s voice in his mind. nohr first, but when you take the throne, then all of nohr will look to you. garon, what do you want the people to remember you as? a man or a machine? he wished to say those words to leon, but perhaps they would do no good. nohr first did not mean that the kingdom should have a heart of ice, the dusk did not need to be cold ( but, he could not change that now. not with the borrowed time he spent even as he stood there in silence ). ❛ i wish i could advise you further; a closed heart does not suit you. ❜
the ruins that the war left behind still stood tall despite it missing its former glory. the empire that rose to power, conquered beyond the horizon till they were stopped by a traitor in their midst. a traitor that they trusted, treated like one of their own before they were easily convinced to join the enemy side. how pitiful to see all your love, energy and time be wasted upon hearing one single sentence ‘we’re are your real family’ but are we, not family as well?
the sorcerer's loyalty is set in stone and no words could waver his loyalty to his family. the ones he had chosen and the ones that had chosen him. the love their father shared for his children, they shared the same love between each other., it was supposed to withstand everything funny how in the end it revealed to be very fragile as the very moment those words left that person’s mouth his family was in ruins, broken & beyond repair.
leon cannot accept this man to be his father even though all evidence points towards a simple truth: a truth he is incapable of accepting. so he pushes all hopes away despite knowing for a fact that this may be the moment he needs his father the most.
the grip on his tome tightens upon hearing that very last sentence leave his father’s lips. ❛ i... ❜ his voice is shaky, but he pushes himself to sound calm and confident (even though his mental state is everything but that) ❛ i opened my heart once, it didn’t work out too well, ❜ look what it did, it left his country, his family and most importantly himself in ruins. ❛ it appears mother was right... people use it to their advantage to get what they desire. ❜ why did that wretched woman always needed to be right? he hated it, he hates that he begins to think that he should have listened more to her advice.
he sighs, ❛ i want this country to be the place my brothers and sister dreamt this place to be, ❜ a country that can withstand the challenge of time, a country that can feed its people without having to beg for it. ❛ a place that elise wanted it to be, the country marx was going to let it be ❜ he must carry on that torch for it’s his only light left. too much had been taken and even though he had tried to prepare himself for it, it could never be enough. ❛ that is why i will do anything in my power to rebuild and improve so all lives that were lost won’t be in vain. even if that means i have to close off my heart, even if i can never trust again, ❜ yet he will trust camilla and zero, forever and always. and maybe...
maybe someday he will be capable of opening his heart again. ❛ perhaps someday it will open again, but the people need a leader more than anything now. ❜
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