I... can't do that. It wouldn't be right, Lady Serah.
[All the Cocoon people at some point or another have tried to convince Machina to leave off the honorifics and failed. All he's done is dug his heels in more, determined to be respectful of them where others were not in their world.]
I'm sorry to bother you. It's just... I've been to the wall and...
[This is hard to even put to words but he truly needs to know.]
I saw Lord Hope's name there. Is it true? He's gone now too?
[...ah, there was the question before she could protest being called 'Lady Serah'. She's quiet for a long moment, before just...]
...yeah. He's gone now too.
[She had really hoped (no pun intended) that everyone could be here and happy like she and her sister were, but without everyone else to share in that happiness...
...well.]
I don't know where he went back to-- I knew him a little older, so...
[Maybe after everyone saved Cocoon from falling? She didn't know that he was de-aged thanks to Bhunivelze's bullshit, and only knew the original Hope and then the older Hope from her journeying along the timeline.
[And it all sounded like hell. Growing up, being busted back down to adolescence, being abandoned by friends. Funny that all Machina ever wanted to do was protect his young friend, and now Hope's off to fend for himself again.]
I should have tried harder to find out how to keep people here, dammit.
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Date: 2018-06-10 01:51 am (UTC)[All the Cocoon people at some point or another have tried to convince Machina to leave off the honorifics and failed. All he's done is dug his heels in more, determined to be respectful of them where others were not in their world.]
I'm sorry to bother you. It's just... I've been to the wall and...
[This is hard to even put to words but he truly needs to know.]
I saw Lord Hope's name there. Is it true? He's gone now too?
voice
Date: 2018-06-10 05:59 am (UTC)...yeah. He's gone now too.
[She had really hoped (no pun intended) that everyone could be here and happy like she and her sister were, but without everyone else to share in that happiness...
...well.]
I don't know where he went back to-- I knew him a little older, so...
[Maybe after everyone saved Cocoon from falling? She didn't know that he was de-aged thanks to Bhunivelze's bullshit, and only knew the original Hope and then the older Hope from her journeying along the timeline.
Didn't make it less difficult.]
voice
Date: 2018-06-23 07:26 am (UTC)[And it all sounded like hell. Growing up, being busted back down to adolescence, being abandoned by friends. Funny that all Machina ever wanted to do was protect his young friend, and now Hope's off to fend for himself again.]
I should have tried harder to find out how to keep people here, dammit.