That's not the worst of it. It's only the beginning...
[The words aren't an accusation, just a statement of fact. The originating event is always just be beginning. Ganonodorf's torture aside--and it doesn't take a genius to guess that she is glossing over how bad things were--for people like them, the worse torture always comes later. The blame. The helplessness. The fear. The anger.
The originating event ends. Those feelings...they stay inside of a person until they are dealt with and that is the very hardest part of healing.]
So I finally have the full story. Reno told me the part about Shion, Ganondorf, and himself. He...didn't tell me your part of the story.
[Things make better sense now, the pieces finally all click together to show a whole. Sadly enough, that whole is still very broken.]
Everyone feels like they have failed everyone else. Shion feels like he failed Reno. You feel like you failed Reno, at least it seems that way, and Reno feels like he has failed you two...
[Reno is probably going to kill him for saying that, but the red head is on an honesty kick right now. If he wants Diarmuid to be honest, he's going to be honest. To everyone.]
You have Shion's part of the tale mostly right. What you probably don't know is that he has been working with me to try and find what he lost. To learn to control that anger and those drives that make him lose control. Progress is being made and I am very proud of him for that even if he thinks the progress isn't enough.
What about you? What are you doing to face the darkness that Ganondorf's actions caused in you?
[Perhaps that is the most important lesson he's learned from all of this. Diarmuid has finally found a new path--a wiser way--to fight the villains. If they take so much pleasure in breaking and the pain their actions cause others, Diarmuid will find a way to make sure they are denied that satisfaction. The breaking will be repaired. The pain healed and those affected will not come out the same--no one can ever be the same after something like that--but they will be stronger.
And maybe...that is the message behind the mask that he had been given when he visited the masquerade floor with Reno. Broken can be beautiful again. It will never be the same, but it can still be beautiful.
Isn't that what the Turks are suppose to be about after all?]
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[The words aren't an accusation, just a statement of fact. The originating event is always just be beginning. Ganonodorf's torture aside--and it doesn't take a genius to guess that she is glossing over how bad things were--for people like them, the worse torture always comes later. The blame. The helplessness. The fear. The anger.
The originating event ends. Those feelings...they stay inside of a person until they are dealt with and that is the very hardest part of healing.]
So I finally have the full story. Reno told me the part about Shion, Ganondorf, and himself. He...didn't tell me your part of the story.
[Things make better sense now, the pieces finally all click together to show a whole. Sadly enough, that whole is still very broken.]
Everyone feels like they have failed everyone else. Shion feels like he failed Reno. You feel like you failed Reno, at least it seems that way, and Reno feels like he has failed you two...
[Reno is probably going to kill him for saying that, but the red head is on an honesty kick right now. If he wants Diarmuid to be honest, he's going to be honest. To everyone.]
You have Shion's part of the tale mostly right. What you probably don't know is that he has been working with me to try and find what he lost. To learn to control that anger and those drives that make him lose control. Progress is being made and I am very proud of him for that even if he thinks the progress isn't enough.
What about you? What are you doing to face the darkness that Ganondorf's actions caused in you?
[Perhaps that is the most important lesson he's learned from all of this. Diarmuid has finally found a new path--a wiser way--to fight the villains. If they take so much pleasure in breaking and the pain their actions cause others, Diarmuid will find a way to make sure they are denied that satisfaction. The breaking will be repaired. The pain healed and those affected will not come out the same--no one can ever be the same after something like that--but they will be stronger.
And maybe...that is the message behind the mask that he had been given when he visited the masquerade floor with Reno. Broken can be beautiful again. It will never be the same, but it can still be beautiful.
Isn't that what the Turks are suppose to be about after all?]