[ Perhaps it is for the best, because as soon as Aymeric stills, Thordan seizes his chance. A chilling laugh bursts forth from Aymeric's lips, and again, the primal uses him to speak. ]
Do you think you have won? Your words are not enough to forestall me.
[ Alkaid's kiss on his forehead dimly registers, but with Thordan fighting against the forced separation, Aymeric cannot do anything to react to it. The gap between Aymeric and Thordan continues to widen, and he is doing his best to push back and take hold of what is his, but the primal still is not making it easy. ]
Ishgard will fall, and her loss will be on your shoulders, my son. [ It is a desperate blow, and a low one, but Thordan will not make this parting easy for any of them. If they wish to separate them, then he will turn his attacks to Aymeric's heart and to his emotional state as well as his physical one. ] You have disappointed me greatly...
[ At any other time, Aymeric would have not reacted so strongly to those words, at least not in a way that anyone could see. He would contain his hurt inside, doing his best to compartmentalize it and contain it, but it would certainly take root.
Now, however, he has no such capacity for such a thing, and in response to Thordan's hurtful words, a despairing cry escapes him. The knowledge that he has disappointed his father, or the image of him, does not cut as much as the fear that Ishgard will be lost because of him.
Clearly, that is what has hurt Aymeric most, but even as he shakes with that fear, he has just one thing that he can say, helped along by the aether that Alisaie is channeling into him: ]
You are not... You are not him. [ Thordan's rage continues to fall, but Aymeric remains resolute on this one topic to the point that it does not occur to him that Alisaie is here and will hear this exchange. But it is no secret who his father is, even if others not from Ishgard might be unaware. ] You are not my father.
[ It is not a striking difference, as neither his father nor the primal truly cared for Aymeric's well-being, but slowly, Aymeric is being forced to confront the fact that this primal is not the man who was, at least by blood, his father. ]
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Do you think you have won? Your words are not enough to forestall me.
[ Alkaid's kiss on his forehead dimly registers, but with Thordan fighting against the forced separation, Aymeric cannot do anything to react to it. The gap between Aymeric and Thordan continues to widen, and he is doing his best to push back and take hold of what is his, but the primal still is not making it easy. ]
Ishgard will fall, and her loss will be on your shoulders, my son. [ It is a desperate blow, and a low one, but Thordan will not make this parting easy for any of them. If they wish to separate them, then he will turn his attacks to Aymeric's heart and to his emotional state as well as his physical one. ] You have disappointed me greatly...
[ At any other time, Aymeric would have not reacted so strongly to those words, at least not in a way that anyone could see. He would contain his hurt inside, doing his best to compartmentalize it and contain it, but it would certainly take root.
Now, however, he has no such capacity for such a thing, and in response to Thordan's hurtful words, a despairing cry escapes him. The knowledge that he has disappointed his father, or the image of him, does not cut as much as the fear that Ishgard will be lost because of him.
Clearly, that is what has hurt Aymeric most, but even as he shakes with that fear, he has just one thing that he can say, helped along by the aether that Alisaie is channeling into him: ]
You are not... You are not him. [ Thordan's rage continues to fall, but Aymeric remains resolute on this one topic to the point that it does not occur to him that Alisaie is here and will hear this exchange. But it is no secret who his father is, even if others not from Ishgard might be unaware. ] You are not my father.
[ It is not a striking difference, as neither his father nor the primal truly cared for Aymeric's well-being, but slowly, Aymeric is being forced to confront the fact that this primal is not the man who was, at least by blood, his father. ]