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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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[Kain keeps his feelings inside, especially anger at his father. As for what he's just said... He doesn't think he deserves it, but keeps that also to himself]

...Even after failing and dying so much, you still consider me worthy?

[It was a question he had often asked and never had a true answer to, before his fathers arrival here.]

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Of course. You can't deny your blood so easily.

[No matter how many times Kain asks that question, he'll get the same answer to it, even if Ricard is angry at him, the way he is now.]

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[Kain folds his arms and tries to push the ANGST down. If it doesn't show it doesn't count right? Right.]

...All this time, I had assumed I'd gone too far, and shamed the dragoons too much.

[Which of course is why he didn't bring any of this up right away. Too difficult to face his father's reaction. And anything related to the Lucavi incident had just been too painful in general.]

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You still wear the armor. If you really did, you would've cast it aside long ago.

The only way you could shame the dragoons is to let Zephyr die, or to die a coward.

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[And fortunately for the whole world, this Kain isn't going to follow the path of his TAY counterpart and do that. It would have taken him years to reach that point of casting aside his identity, something the younger!him hasn't even considered doing. Kain glances toward Zephyr first, giving her a reassuring look.]

Never.

[He looks to his father, expression determined and his tone forceful.]

I will never let anything happen to Zephyr, she's far too important. And I can promise that whether it was here or in that other world's war, I faced death like a man.

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Well, then. You haven't shamed the dragoons, and you haven't shamed me.

[He's pleased that Kain is finally being determined about something other than his own supposed guilt.]

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[He has his moments. And figures he should wait and do the brooding later in private.]

Then... I'll take your word for it. I know you always mean what you say.

[This is something he's always needed to hear all along but obviously until now hasn't been able to.]