[ Blade can believe that - he knows when he was looking for, uh...someone, he managed to get by without leads too.
Or maybe it is that a certain element ended up becoming a lead. ]
...keep at it.
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Yes and no.
It's a complicated situation. Nothing straightforward. The person he is now is different from that person previous - even if they are irrevocably connected. [ Dan Heng can't separate himself from Dan Feng's sins, even if it doesn't mean he must hold onto them, and let them trap him. Even if to Blade, Imbibitor Lunae will still be his title, even as he acknowledges "Dan Heng". ] And not because he "changed for the better". It's more complex than most would think.
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[ He could have used more words for that. But, anyway... ]
...but, that is an answer.
Is it because of your experiences? Outside of here.
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[As matter of fact as anything.]
My role millennia ago did not require me to...feel things.
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[ Blade vaguely remembers something about that because it was noteworthy. Even with his shoddy memory. ]
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[An uncomfortable pause.]
Is that really your name? Blade?
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[ Blade takes a momentary pause himself. ]
It is my name.
I became a blade and so that is who and what I am.
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[For that person...]
Did you decide to become one? Or did someone make you into one?
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[ Either way, sure is a way to describe someone. ]
Somewhere in the middle.
I had no choice but to become one because of what I ended up becoming from someone else's actions.
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[He admits, quietly.]
But I'm looking, as much as I can. Wherever...I can.
[.......]
That so. [He remembers to that first week, and that stern young man.] Is it because of....him?
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Or maybe it is that a certain element ended up becoming a lead. ]
...keep at it.
[ ... ]
Yes and no.
It's a complicated situation. Nothing straightforward. The person he is now is different from that person previous - even if they are irrevocably connected. [ Dan Heng can't separate himself from Dan Feng's sins, even if it doesn't mean he must hold onto them, and let them trap him. Even if to Blade, Imbibitor Lunae will still be his title, even as he acknowledges "Dan Heng". ] And not because he "changed for the better". It's more complex than most would think.