[This is not the face of someone who wants to be kept safe. If it's down to people who could save everyone here, the four of them should never have died.
She has never been the type to take the lead on things like this. She's followed orders - first, her father's and Seiros's, and then the Professor's and Edelgard's - for each battle she's taken part in. She's gone where directed, healed whomever she could, but here?
Here, she's left to her own devices, and each choice she makes seems more disastrous than the last.]
...all I want to do is tell the truth. But I cannot. [She bites her lip.] I have tried.
How can I possibly help them, when I have been lying to them this whole time?
[He'd like to tell the truth, too. If it was up to him, he'd announce to everyone exactly what had happened last night and let them decide what to do. He's not ashamed of his actions with Sanji - he did his best after drawing a bad card, gave Sanji a fighting chance.
But he can't stand here and lie to the people who cared about him and live with himself easily.]
But there's only two choices here. You keep going, even though it's ugly, or you die. And somebody else takes your place.
[That's harsher than he means, so he'll add.]
I wouldn't judge you if you think you can't keep going. Dying here's not permanent - you can go where the dead are and whichever team wins, I'm sure they'll bring you back.
[She nods. She understands what Magnus means - if she does get caught tomorrow, Winter very well may end up choosing someone else so that he won't have to carry out the duties of a Wicket alone.
And if that's the case, then someone else will be forced to have blood on their hands.]
I want to keep you safe, as well. ...I want to save everyone. I just - I do not know how, and that is... it hurts.
Do me a favor. Do your best to stay alive, and I'll do the same. And then we'll try to figure out some other options, if Winter asks us to do this again.
[As long as they can get past trial, maybe they'll learn something that will help them.]
I think there might be a lot you can do to help, Flayn. I think the fact that you're you, and so many people care about you might be really important.
At some point, somehow, they're going to have to figure out why people are killing at night. And when that happens, if we can get them to understand that they can still trust us, we might have a shot at putting things right.
[jesus christ i can't believe flayn is getting Actual Reapsody Lore and not shitposts]
But... you should be able to get them to understand the same thing.
[Flayn thinks he's pretty great! She finds it hard to imagine that people wouldn't trust him, but, like. She's biased, so.]
...if you think it will help, though... I - I do not wish to lie more than we already have, by placing the evidence we did. I do not think that I can bring myself to mislead them further.
And... I do not think I can live with it if someone innocent is being suspected in our place.
But so long as we find another killer, I... I will keep going.
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She has never been the type to take the lead on things like this. She's followed orders - first, her father's and Seiros's, and then the Professor's and Edelgard's - for each battle she's taken part in. She's gone where directed, healed whomever she could, but here?
Here, she's left to her own devices, and each choice she makes seems more disastrous than the last.]
...all I want to do is tell the truth. But I cannot. [She bites her lip.] I have tried.
How can I possibly help them, when I have been lying to them this whole time?
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[He'd like to tell the truth, too. If it was up to him, he'd announce to everyone exactly what had happened last night and let them decide what to do. He's not ashamed of his actions with Sanji - he did his best after drawing a bad card, gave Sanji a fighting chance.
But he can't stand here and lie to the people who cared about him and live with himself easily.]
But there's only two choices here. You keep going, even though it's ugly, or you die. And somebody else takes your place.
[That's harsher than he means, so he'll add.]
I wouldn't judge you if you think you can't keep going. Dying here's not permanent - you can go where the dead are and whichever team wins, I'm sure they'll bring you back.
But on my end, I wanna keep you safe.
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[She nods. She understands what Magnus means - if she does get caught tomorrow, Winter very well may end up choosing someone else so that he won't have to carry out the duties of a Wicket alone.
And if that's the case, then someone else will be forced to have blood on their hands.]
I want to keep you safe, as well. ...I want to save everyone. I just - I do not know how, and that is... it hurts.
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[As long as they can get past trial, maybe they'll learn something that will help them.]
I think there might be a lot you can do to help, Flayn. I think the fact that you're you, and so many people care about you might be really important.
At some point, somehow, they're going to have to figure out why people are killing at night. And when that happens, if we can get them to understand that they can still trust us, we might have a shot at putting things right.
That's what happened in Reaper's Game, y'know?
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But... you should be able to get them to understand the same thing.
[Flayn thinks he's pretty great! She finds it hard to imagine that people wouldn't trust him, but, like. She's biased, so.]
...if you think it will help, though... I - I do not wish to lie more than we already have, by placing the evidence we did. I do not think that I can bring myself to mislead them further.
And... I do not think I can live with it if someone innocent is being suspected in our place.
But so long as we find another killer, I... I will keep going.