http://dragoon-rising.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] dragoon-rising.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] mooglenet_backup2011-04-26 01:52 am

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[Vague apology is going to be vague, but that's how Kain does these things. He'll leave it public partially as an act of penance, partially because he's still readjusting to these devices and their filters. He isn't even sure that all of these people are here- he's been gone from Gaia for only a couple weeks, but to him it feels much, much longer. Don't worry Zidane, when he realizes you're not here, he'll bother you when you arrive.]

Cecil. Squall. Onion Knight. Bartz. Firion. Zidane. I apologize to all of you, especially.

I should also extend that apology to the other warriors of Cosmos as well.

I'm... sorry.

[He's still recovering, but he can't finish this without offering:]

...and if anyone has need for another fighter, I can be there at once.

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[identity profile] trinitycrusades.livejournal.com 2011-04-26 12:15 pm (UTC)(link)
[Cecil hasn't forgotten Kain's previous attempts to apologise. And that's an oddly specific list of Cosmos warriors... Cecil wasn't even aware Kain was acquainted with them.]

Kain, what is this about? Why are you apologising?

[He sighs at the offer. You might not want two stern dads, Kain, but the way you're behaving, you're going to need them at this rate. :|]

You should at least let yourself rest. You're in no condition to fight.

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[identity profile] trinitycrusades.livejournal.com 2011-04-26 01:56 pm (UTC)(link)
You can fight them when you're ready. You'll only be a liability if you go out there still injured, and have to be rescued again.

Of course I trust you. You know that I do. What reason would you have to apologise to me -- or my friends?

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[identity profile] trinitycrusades.livejournal.com 2011-04-26 04:51 pm (UTC)(link)
If Zephyr hadn't gone to find you, you would have died out there. These past weeks have been hard enough on her; don't give her more reason to worry.

[That he considers them his friends certainly confuses Cecil. They would have mentioned being friends with Kain at some point, wouldn't they? Kain, too, would have mentioned it before now.]

I'll do it. [He sets the conversation to private to save his friend the trouble.] Explain, Kain. What's going on?

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[identity profile] trinitycrusades.livejournal.com 2011-04-27 02:28 am (UTC)(link)
Take care of yourself and you'll take care of her. I don't profess to know much about the bonds between dragoons and dragons, but I know that much.

[As Kain begins to speak about the war, Cecil can't believe what he's hearing. Cecil's never mentioned the war of the gods to anyone from his homeworld before, yet for Kain to know so much about it, he had to have been there. Of course, Cecil would never think he'd lie, but...]

...Are you sure? You're right, my brother and I were there, and the others. But there were only ten warriors of Cosmos, just as there were ten warriors of Chaos. It may have been a very long time ago for me, but I would have remembered if you were there...

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[identity profile] trinitycrusades.livejournal.com 2011-04-27 11:32 am (UTC)(link)
[Cecil has to think hard about that. It was such a long time ago, so even the events he does remember are faded at best. To think he'd have forgotten something as important as his best friend being there is certainly shocking.]

The cycles... That's right. Garland did speak of that. He told us the conflict was eternal. I remembered nothing during that time... not you, not Rosa, not home, not any other battles in that world. The only memories I had left were of my brother.

...But, if you were there before, why didn't you join us for the last cycle?

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[identity profile] trinitycrusades.livejournal.com 2011-04-27 09:38 pm (UTC)(link)
[Golbez... So even in the previous cycles, he was helping them, even if only to provide information. The warriors of Cosmos owe him much.]

Of what plan do you speak? Cosmos and the crystals, or... something else?

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[identity profile] trinitycrusades.livejournal.com 2011-04-27 09:57 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, I fought countless manikins throughout the conflict. What of them?

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[identity profile] trinitycrusades.livejournal.com 2011-04-27 11:31 pm (UTC)(link)
...No, I didn't know that.

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[identity profile] trinitycrusades.livejournal.com 2011-04-28 01:27 am (UTC)(link)
[Cecil's a lot more sharper than his younger self, so he has an idea of where this is going.]

And so you sought to stop them?

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[identity profile] trinitycrusades.livejournal.com 2011-04-28 02:11 am (UTC)(link)
In which you were successful. So... for what reason are you apologising?

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[identity profile] trinitycrusades.livejournal.com 2011-04-28 02:31 am (UTC)(link)
You... knocked us out? I'm not sure I understand.

[It's something he'd never think to do himself, that's for certain, so as a plan it doesn't make much sense to him.]

You attacked us in order to protect us? Did that cycle really seem so hopeless to you?

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[identity profile] trinitycrusades.livejournal.com 2011-04-28 12:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Kain... What happened to you after that? You set out to stop the manikins?

[He assumes so, because after Cosmos perished and they all travelled to defeat Chaos, the manikin numbers were all but dying out.]

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[identity profile] trinitycrusades.livejournal.com 2011-04-29 12:01 pm (UTC)(link)
[Of course it matters what became of him. Rosa and Cecil had been so worried... have been worried for him much, much longer than just two weeks of absence. Not that Kain would realise it, being as young as he is.]

...Who else went with you to stop them, if not us?