[Rindo's not convinced that Gladion's fine, but he's not about to grill him about it if he wants to pretend to be. He gets a feeling that just getting him to open up this much is an accomplishment in and of itself.
Gladion's sigh finds itself echoed in Rindo's reply.]
…Yeah. It is.
["Mess" is an understatement. Rindo's glad to hear Lillie was able to flee, at least. Still… how stubborn, how obsessed do you have to be for two of your children to literally run away from you and still refuse to change? To double down, even?]
Honestly, there probably wasn't any good solution… I guess you just couldn't stand it anymore. You had to try something. So you did whatever you could think of and… it didn't work. Maybe nothing would've worked, not as long as she didn't want to stop.
[Gladion's reasoning for stealing Silvally makes sense to him, even if…]
I… I don't think I would've been able to do what you did.
[It sounds… brave? Reckless? Risky? None of these qualifiers apply to Rindo.
Back to questions for a bit…]
So Silvally's the Beast Killer…? Is it artificial or something?
[He certainly doesn't mean to imply any kind of judgment here. So what if Silvally looks like a bunch of things stitched together? He and Gladion are just the same now.]
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Date: 2023-08-14 01:15 pm (UTC)Gladion's sigh finds itself echoed in Rindo's reply.]
…Yeah. It is.
["Mess" is an understatement. Rindo's glad to hear Lillie was able to flee, at least. Still… how stubborn, how obsessed do you have to be for two of your children to literally run away from you and still refuse to change? To double down, even?]
Honestly, there probably wasn't any good solution… I guess you just couldn't stand it anymore. You had to try something. So you did whatever you could think of and… it didn't work. Maybe nothing would've worked, not as long as she didn't want to stop.
[Gladion's reasoning for stealing Silvally makes sense to him, even if…]
I… I don't think I would've been able to do what you did.
[It sounds… brave? Reckless? Risky? None of these qualifiers apply to Rindo.
Back to questions for a bit…]
So Silvally's the Beast Killer…? Is it artificial or something?
[He certainly doesn't mean to imply any kind of judgment here. So what if Silvally looks like a bunch of things stitched together? He and Gladion are just the same now.]