Yuto had to turn away to hide his tears. It had been decades since Gast had smiled at him, and he didn't realize how much he'd missed having his superior's approval. "It'll be a very long time before I'll feel I can be forgiven, but it means so much to hear you say it." The radiance that surrounded Gast was blinding, white and mako blue-green. When he looked behind himself, Yuto could see telltale trails of black smoke being blown back by the light.
It should have been beaten out of him to show his emotions at his age, but none of this was real, and he had to stop and sob before regaining his composure.
"A lot of very bad things have happened since...what happened happened," Yuto said. "After...killing you, there was nothing stopping me from devoting my mind and my body entirely to serving Jenova. Not all of the blame can be placed on her, since I allowed it to happen, but my devotion to her endangered the life of the Planet itself. When I died, the Planet punished me until I truly understood what I had done. It gave me a chance to put things right, so I was re-formed outside of the Lifestream, and I've been trying my hardest to do right by it."
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Date: 2015-09-25 04:47 pm (UTC)From:It should have been beaten out of him to show his emotions at his age, but none of this was real, and he had to stop and sob before regaining his composure.
"A lot of very bad things have happened since...what happened happened," Yuto said. "After...killing you, there was nothing stopping me from devoting my mind and my body entirely to serving Jenova. Not all of the blame can be placed on her, since I allowed it to happen, but my devotion to her endangered the life of the Planet itself. When I died, the Planet punished me until I truly understood what I had done. It gave me a chance to put things right, so I was re-formed outside of the Lifestream, and I've been trying my hardest to do right by it."