To Siegfried, Seto Kaiba might as well make up the entire world. But it's not like he's ever had a choice in seeing it that way. The shadow he casts is so long and so all-consuming that Siegfried never had a chance of escaping it.
And it's not even really Seto's fault - at least, in a theoretical sense. Seto never asked for the Schroeder family to obsess over him, to destroy themselves trying to destroy him. As a child, Siegfried had hated him - the boy who made his father suffer so much - his father, with the bags under his eyes growing darker each day as he fell deeper and deeper into misery and exhaustion. When he grew older, there was a brief time when he directed his hatred at his own father, instead, and decided he would free himself from the shackles that Seto Kaiba had on his life.
But in the end, fate had laughed at him mercilessly, and Siegfried finally grew to understand what had kept his father up night after sleepless night. Because whatever he did, Kaiba was always, always one step ahead. Perhaps Siegfried should've left it, should've let himself be satisfied with what he had, but... in the end, he just couldn't do it.
Without defeating Kaiba, what was the purpose of his existence? After all he'd suffered trying to get to the top, everything he'd done - had it all been for nothing? A total waste of time? ...No, Siegfried is nothing without Seto Kaiba - it's always been that way. ...But not any longer.
"Mister Seto." When Siegfried greets him, it's with a smile on his face. He's the very picture of elegance and composure, even if the smile he wears is a cold one.
"I never thought we'd meet again somewhere like this. Is something wrong? You're looking rather... troubled."
@sweetcobaltblue ( starter for seto! )