[It wasn't that he didn't deserve it before just... well the only one that knew what the hell was going on then was Ignis. And Ignis hadn't felt sharing this information to be relevant. Maybe it would've changed something.
Maybe it just meant they would have had to accept the fact that there was more to the thing they were killing than just a monster.
Still hearing those words, quiet and raw and so unlike the man he's interacted with before hurts. Makes his heart ache in ways he didn't think it could for Ardyn. But it doesn't matter that it is him or what he's done in the past, what matters is that he's in so much pain and there's nothing he can do to help it.]
Y-yeah. We'll figure something out.
[He looks to Iggy, something painfully hopeful in his face and the way the hand on his hip squeezes.]
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Maybe it just meant they would have had to accept the fact that there was more to the thing they were killing than just a monster.
Still hearing those words, quiet and raw and so unlike the man he's interacted with before hurts. Makes his heart ache in ways he didn't think it could for Ardyn. But it doesn't matter that it is him or what he's done in the past, what matters is that he's in so much pain and there's nothing he can do to help it.]
Y-yeah. We'll figure something out.
[He looks to Iggy, something painfully hopeful in his face and the way the hand on his hip squeezes.]
We gotta.