Tales of Graces f: DAY FIFTEEN

[sincere]

Let's finish this bizns. I think I'm close to the endddd. And then -- I think I may take a break before trying the future era...


Starting from: Leaving Fodra with mah derris bit.

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[sincere]

Cheria bullies them (cutely) into talking. She told Sophie that she, like Asbel, is kind of bad at expressing her feelings. (Thus making her a man. :( ) Asbel reluctantly agrees that they're both very stubborn and stupid. lol.

He explains to her all the reasons why he wants her to liiiive. She has so many things left to see and do... And she warms to it a little bit. ("Oh good. I thought you were angry at me." He blushes and is awkward. "Cheria says you get angry when you're sad. ...I want you to always be happy.")

They're very cute. And they're going to save Richard. Happy.

[rainfall]

I wish it were a true connection, but Asbel is Suzaku. As such, when he's sad, he gets... sad. 90% of the time, sadness results in him being crushed under the weight of his depression with that sad faceplate in skits to top it off. He really only got angry this time out of desperation.

Now, as a chibi, maybe Asbel was less honest with his feelings and more prone to explosions of anger when confronted with sadness.

But Cheria's observation here is pretty consistent with her closeness to and her opinions of Asbel mostly being in the past-tense. And I certainly don't fault Asbel for saying she's right, because he's easily steamrollered by other people's opinions of him.

Lalalala, and then I made their interaction during this kind of depressing to meeee.

[sincere]

I would actually venture that this is more Oversimplification Stupid than anything directly wrong. Like, when he's just sad, he melts. But when he gets angry about something sad, it's not that he's just sad. It's that he's in denial and he's grieving and blah blah. It's not literally "Sad + Asbel = ANGRY", which is provably untrue, because Asbel mopes a lot and he would have destroyed Tokyo by now.