[Seeing past the pain and the suffering, enduring, living, going through everything with your head high, or low if the situation calls for it- Ryuji lives by this. It's coded into his genetic diary, his moral fiber. It's not like he wasn't open about it; anyone who asked would've gotten the same explanation: his father was a pitiable drunk who talked with his fists, rather than his love for his family. How many times had he laid awake at night after he became a Phantom Thief... knowing exactly where he was, wondering what would happen if he selfishly forced a change of hearts? Too many to count... but in the end, he wouldn't. Not that it was retribution to know he was out there in the world alone and without a family. Fuck that.
If you're a Sakamoto, you have to find the will inside you to get better. No magic is going to fuck around with that. So when he thinks about Mordred's dream, and the words that she says afterward, almost as an apology for the mutual invasion, it trickles off of him like excess rainwater from a stormy afternoon.]
I guess we both got issues with our dads, huh.
[Some things can't be changed, either way. Of course, Mordred's issue was a thing of legend... Ryuji's was just personal and only important to himself and his mother. But, still.]
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[Seeing past the pain and the suffering, enduring, living, going through everything with your head high, or low if the situation calls for it- Ryuji lives by this. It's coded into his genetic diary, his moral fiber. It's not like he wasn't open about it; anyone who asked would've gotten the same explanation: his father was a pitiable drunk who talked with his fists, rather than his love for his family. How many times had he laid awake at night after he became a Phantom Thief... knowing exactly where he was, wondering what would happen if he selfishly forced a change of hearts? Too many to count... but in the end, he wouldn't. Not that it was retribution to know he was out there in the world alone and without a family. Fuck that.
If you're a Sakamoto, you have to find the will inside you to get better. No magic is going to fuck around with that. So when he thinks about Mordred's dream, and the words that she says afterward, almost as an apology for the mutual invasion, it trickles off of him like excess rainwater from a stormy afternoon.]
I guess we both got issues with our dads, huh.
[Some things can't be changed, either way. Of course, Mordred's issue was a thing of legend... Ryuji's was just personal and only important to himself and his mother. But, still.]