[Ignis stifled a brief laugh behind his hand; though he couldn't see the reaction, hearing that response struck him as so surreal as to be hilarious.]
I've nothing to be offended by or ashamed of. [He took off his visor, slipping it into a pocket of his uniform's coat.] What some would call my shortcoming is something which I carry proudly. My sight was lost in an attempt to prevent someone I love from enduring further pain and suffering.
[we're brushing with death and there's a high possibility none of these attempts will matter, so for now he's well beyond any sense of alarm. fuck it, this is just how today's going to go.]
Enduring such pain and losing this much wasn't an easy thing. It still proves difficult, you should have seen the time of it I had getting around the Distortion World. Yet it isn't a sacrifice I would regret or take back given the chance...because doing so eased his own burden even incrementally, and that alone is worth everything to me.
I can not and will not turn from someone in need of help. It was not in my king's nature--and as someone who learned more than I can articulate from him, neither is it in mine. Even if I should be able to help one person, five, a dozen...it may be next to nothing on a global scale, but even that small dent in the world's anguish is less pain than was there before.
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[Ignis stifled a brief laugh behind his hand; though he couldn't see the reaction, hearing that response struck him as so surreal as to be hilarious.]
I've nothing to be offended by or ashamed of. [He took off his visor, slipping it into a pocket of his uniform's coat.] What some would call my shortcoming is something which I carry proudly. My sight was lost in an attempt to prevent someone I love from enduring further pain and suffering.
[we're brushing with death and there's a high possibility none of these attempts will matter, so for now he's well beyond any sense of alarm. fuck it, this is just how today's going to go.]
Enduring such pain and losing this much wasn't an easy thing. It still proves difficult, you should have seen the time of it I had getting around the Distortion World. Yet it isn't a sacrifice I would regret or take back given the chance...because doing so eased his own burden even incrementally, and that alone is worth everything to me.
I can not and will not turn from someone in need of help. It was not in my king's nature--and as someone who learned more than I can articulate from him, neither is it in mine. Even if I should be able to help one person, five, a dozen...it may be next to nothing on a global scale, but even that small dent in the world's anguish is less pain than was there before.