That's...a lot of what we went through, too. We were living with Knives and Vash for a little while before things changed. And then we were on our own for...a pretty long time before we ever saw Knives again. Vash helped us then, and then we moved to a different ship. We went another several decades not seeing Vash, but it was better than how things had been in the desert and traveling around.
Right...like I said. We were living with Knives and Vash for a while before things changed. [ they have now witnessed first-hand that knives used to be different.
also, livio says that and jonas sort of raises an eyebrow. the question isn't confrontational, but rather like he has questions. ]
What makes you say that? That it'd be hard for me, specifically, to get used to.
... It's too bad. Things could have ended differently, with Knives.
[ he means it in the sense of the role he was playing in the memory .... but livio looks thoughtful. was jonas in cold sleep? ]
I heard about it from Vash, that he had his friends and family that he'd just up and disappear for years, and then... come back, like nothing had happened. That it was hard on them, sometimes. Because he never changed, but they did, and he never really gave any warning. Was that what it was like?
I think...after the things Vash and Knives saw, it might've been too late to stop him. I kind of wish things had ended differently though. If only to keep some of the truth private from us.
[ but he hums to that. ]
I mean...we didn't exactly change either. We stopped changing appearances somewhere in our twenties and it stayed that way for years. We watched a lot of people be born and die during those like sixty years or so on the second ship. Vash would show up sometimes before leaving again to try and find Knives. Sometimes it'd be years before we saw him again.
Before that, we were bouncing around from town to town just trying to get by. Just like everybody else.
I feel like it would have come out anyway, sooner or later.
[ the whole thing is so unfortunate, though. ]
Oh... I see. [ so it wasn't quite a direct allegory. it was half and half. he has no idea how these things worked, but... he's relieved it wasn't what he was initially thinking. this whole thing sounds rough, but at least.... well. ]
So a huge amount of time passed for you. [ just like mizuki ]
Those things tend to. It's always about the inevitable in those cases. Even if I wish it wasn't.
[ it's tragic is what it is. but he also thinks knives is a psychopath now so there's that. ]
But yeah. A lot of time passed. After the ship crashed and we landed in the desert, we wandered for a few months before we got a ride into a town and started settling in there. Nahri got a job as the town doctor and I was doing whatever jobs came up. After a while though they ran us out, so we went back to wandering from town to town. The only reason we stopped is because Knives found us, and then Vash found us and took us back before he could kill us.
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I know some of it. What happened with him and Knives, what they were like as kids, what they went through on No Man's Land...
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Knives used to be pretty different.
[ back before he got a taste for genocide ]
Vash told me he used to come and go.... would be hard to get used to, I think, for you.
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also, livio says that and jonas sort of raises an eyebrow. the question isn't confrontational, but rather like he has questions. ]
What makes you say that? That it'd be hard for me, specifically, to get used to.
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[ he means it in the sense of the role he was playing in the memory .... but livio looks thoughtful. was jonas in cold sleep? ]
I heard about it from Vash, that he had his friends and family that he'd just up and disappear for years, and then... come back, like nothing had happened. That it was hard on them, sometimes. Because he never changed, but they did, and he never really gave any warning. Was that what it was like?
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[ but he hums to that. ]
I mean...we didn't exactly change either. We stopped changing appearances somewhere in our twenties and it stayed that way for years. We watched a lot of people be born and die during those like sixty years or so on the second ship. Vash would show up sometimes before leaving again to try and find Knives. Sometimes it'd be years before we saw him again.
Before that, we were bouncing around from town to town just trying to get by. Just like everybody else.
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[ the whole thing is so unfortunate, though. ]
Oh... I see. [ so it wasn't quite a direct allegory. it was half and half. he has no idea how these things worked, but... he's relieved it wasn't what he was initially thinking. this whole thing sounds rough, but at least.... well. ]
So a huge amount of time passed for you. [ just like mizuki ]
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[ it's tragic is what it is. but he also thinks knives is a psychopath now so there's that. ]
But yeah. A lot of time passed. After the ship crashed and we landed in the desert, we wandered for a few months before we got a ride into a town and started settling in there. Nahri got a job as the town doctor and I was doing whatever jobs came up. After a while though they ran us out, so we went back to wandering from town to town. The only reason we stopped is because Knives found us, and then Vash found us and took us back before he could kill us.