... Except. Well. Rise's probably going to regret asking that question because... well, it could be argued that Stahn has run into nothing but trouble since meeting Leon. Aside from the fact that Leon was the one to capture and imprison him in the first place, Stahn has only ever been hurt for Leon's sake. Pushing him aside to protect him from basilisks when he'd done nothing to deserve that sort of loyalty, putting his fate into Leon's hands when....well, Leon had never made it anything but clear that the only thing that mattered was the mission...
... But most of all, once they had finally begun to get along, once they had finally maybe actually become-- well, friends, not that Leon could ever admit that... that had been when Leon had done the worst of all, and had betrayed them all. He'd betrayed Stahn, he'd tried to kill Stahn, and the fact that he'd known he couldn't possibly have won against the entire party didn't count for anything. He'd still tried.
If anything, meeting Leon had to have been one of the worst things to ever happen to Stahn. His breath hitches despite himself, though he just ducks his head to hide his face.]
... You don't know anything. Stop making assumptions as though you do. He--
[He, like Marian, like Chaltier, like all of the others, would have been so much better off if he'd never met Leon at all.]
--he is a fool who doesn't realize that opening himself up to the worst of people [to people like Leon] will only hurt him in the end.
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... Except. Well. Rise's probably going to regret asking that question because... well, it could be argued that Stahn has run into nothing but trouble since meeting Leon. Aside from the fact that Leon was the one to capture and imprison him in the first place, Stahn has only ever been hurt for Leon's sake. Pushing him aside to protect him from basilisks when he'd done nothing to deserve that sort of loyalty, putting his fate into Leon's hands when....well, Leon had never made it anything but clear that the only thing that mattered was the mission...
... But most of all, once they had finally begun to get along, once they had finally maybe actually become-- well, friends, not that Leon could ever admit that... that had been when Leon had done the worst of all, and had betrayed them all. He'd betrayed Stahn, he'd tried to kill Stahn, and the fact that he'd known he couldn't possibly have won against the entire party didn't count for anything. He'd still tried.
If anything, meeting Leon had to have been one of the worst things to ever happen to Stahn. His breath hitches despite himself, though he just ducks his head to hide his face.]
... You don't know anything. Stop making assumptions as though you do. He--
[He, like Marian, like Chaltier, like all of the others, would have been so much better off if he'd never met Leon at all.]
--he is a fool who doesn't realize that opening himself up to the worst of people [to people like Leon] will only hurt him in the end.