...I'll be the one to take responsibility if anything happens. If I'm going to ask... it's the least I can do.
[it wouldn't be the first time he's taken the fall for someone else.] Anything you say... stays here, or with that person, if I talk to them.
[he gets it. he honestly gets it, because—there's a lot on the line here for all of them. but there are things he wants to know that xion is obviously not able to tell him because she's not the direct source.
beating around the bush isn't going to help. so he just admits, quietly.]
Maybe you'll believe more if you know about me. Things... I don't go talking about everywhere. [he thinks that someone as empathetic as xion may be able to understand his intentions if she knows the sort of person he truly is.] Might give you a better idea of why I want to know.
[he's willing to be candid with her; it's a compromise, even if it's not the most ideal compromise.
(he can hear ignis advising him against this in the back of his mind, but what else can he do? if he doesn't do anything at all, it's even more risky.)]
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[it wouldn't be the first time he's taken the fall for someone else.] Anything you say... stays here, or with that person, if I talk to them.
[he gets it. he honestly gets it, because—there's a lot on the line here for all of them. but there are things he wants to know that xion is obviously not able to tell him because she's not the direct source.
beating around the bush isn't going to help. so he just admits, quietly.]
Maybe you'll believe more if you know about me. Things... I don't go talking about everywhere. [he thinks that someone as empathetic as xion may be able to understand his intentions if she knows the sort of person he truly is.] Might give you a better idea of why I want to know.
[he's willing to be candid with her; it's a compromise, even if it's not the most ideal compromise.
(he can hear ignis advising him against this in the back of his mind, but what else can he do? if he doesn't do anything at all, it's even more risky.)]