[Everything else will take thinking to articulate and reply to, but this - this is firm and absolute and, for once, Asch has something of the bearing of the royalty he is. Shoulders set, back straight.]
Not unless he specifically says otherwise. He gets to have that respected.
[Muffet might not understand what it means to have gods and prophecies taking away your decisions, but Asch does. Even if the Storyteller or some other god could just snap their fingers and make Ardyn right again - if he doesn't want it, then Asch will absolutely fight for his right to refuse it.
Everyone has a line they will not cross.]
...If I had my full power here - enough Seventh Fonons for a real hyperresonance - I could probably do it. I think I could, even if it might take years to figure out the details.
But I don't.
[It's bitter. He hates being powerless. He sighs, and tries to get his thoughts together to respond to the rest of what she said.]
'Ardyn Lucis Caelum' is dead, and I doubt he'd appreciate being treated as that person any more than I do when people treat me as 'Luke.' As for who he would be - in the hypothetical?
I doubt even he would know. I'm still figuring mine out, and there's no parasitic miasma plague attached to me.
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[Everything else will take thinking to articulate and reply to, but this - this is firm and absolute and, for once, Asch has something of the bearing of the royalty he is. Shoulders set, back straight.]
Not unless he specifically says otherwise. He gets to have that respected.
[Muffet might not understand what it means to have gods and prophecies taking away your decisions, but Asch does. Even if the Storyteller or some other god could just snap their fingers and make Ardyn right again - if he doesn't want it, then Asch will absolutely fight for his right to refuse it.
Everyone has a line they will not cross.]
...If I had my full power here - enough Seventh Fonons for a real hyperresonance - I could probably do it. I think I could, even if it might take years to figure out the details.
But I don't.
[It's bitter. He hates being powerless. He sighs, and tries to get his thoughts together to respond to the rest of what she said.]
'Ardyn Lucis Caelum' is dead, and I doubt he'd appreciate being treated as that person any more than I do when people treat me as 'Luke.' As for who he would be - in the hypothetical?
I doubt even he would know. I'm still figuring mine out, and there's no parasitic miasma plague attached to me.