[ he doesn't know...how to react to something like that. people don't tell him that they're proud of him. actually, only one person ever has, and he's been long gone for approximately an eon now.
so his eyes widen. his expression softens into something inexplicable and childlike. he looks towards the ground as though he were a child, and sheepishly straightens his shoulders again. ]
...I wanted to show the world that we were more than some...impoverished, savage peripheries...I hated it there as a kid, and yet I found myself longing for that island after I moved to the New World. America, ha. The wealth and power I accumulated...I wanted to turn us into something else. Something more than what they saw us as.
I couldn't return...but I will always remember the peace her sea offered me.
[ he smiles, softly. ]
...Thank you. I can imagine that your own feel...similarly.
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Date: 2017-09-05 05:28 am (UTC)[ he doesn't know...how to react to something like that. people don't tell him that they're proud of him. actually, only one person ever has, and he's been long gone for approximately an eon now.
so his eyes widen. his expression softens into something inexplicable and childlike. he looks towards the ground as though he were a child, and sheepishly straightens his shoulders again. ]
...I wanted to show the world that we were more than some...impoverished, savage peripheries...I hated it there as a kid, and yet I found myself longing for that island after I moved to the New World. America, ha. The wealth and power I accumulated...I wanted to turn us into something else. Something more than what they saw us as.
I couldn't return...but I will always remember the peace her sea offered me.
[ he smiles, softly. ]
...Thank you. I can imagine that your own feel...similarly.