I said off handedly once that I don't need Zayne lore and just knowing he was a combat medic is already enough for me because his second anecdote hit me hard.
I don't know, I don't have family in the army but I mean come on, he froze his own legs so he could stay standing and keep fighting. Think about that for a second. Think about what that feels like, physically and emotionally. Also he keeps a notebook under his pillow with a bunch of tally marks for every patient, every comrade he lost? That's fucking tragic. Does he still keep that notebook? How many tally marks does it have now? And going through a battlefield while being plagued by nightmares of everyone dying because you couldn't save them, because you didn't or couldn't do enough just, god, this man's been through a lot.
The Starry Nocturne memory story also hits different after reading his second anecdote.









