[ 'Too many things' as for what they're thinking about at any moment separately or together really does sum it up. So does what follows of those parts they'd lived now disqualified as wants at any point when the experience of all of this was enough, and the same for Claude in that it satisfies any idle curiosity he might've once wondered about. Divinity could cause plenty of pain, as he'd always believed about any gods and the steadfast beliefs in them he'd always scoffed at.
But it would be unfair - so very unfair to write this off as merely an extension of that; though the less flattering parts of who he is coming to light in extreme magnification was part of that he could have easily lived without, there was also so much good in discovering that, despite his terrible joke and things which took their own time to be smoothed over, the three of them stayed together. Had built upon everything to turn it into something far beyond his dreams could've reached for in that it was even better, and that part he'll never regret.
Some part of Claude understands, then, when Hilda says but and names them as the reason. It's the very same thought which hasn't left his mind since the fight with the dragon: that here they're whole, and for that he would stay. Even still, it takes him a second before he nods slowly in acknowledgement after thinking through all she's said. ]
Something you want always matters, Hilda. Even if you think it's something that could be set aside, that doesn't change that it's important no matter what and you shouldn't set it aside forever, no matter what it is.
[ It's a truth he's lived by himself and something he means with all sincerity. Certainly, some of his goals have changed over time. As he'd written in that letter, there are many things he no longer wants to do alone as he'd always assumed he would before Fodlan, before Garreg Mach, before Hilda, before Sylvain - before those wants had shifted and adapted to encompass far more than alone. His gaze stays on her all the while as he keeps running his fingers slowly through her hair, then adds, ] And more than that, you also shouldn't hold back from it for anything or anyone.
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But it would be unfair - so very unfair to write this off as merely an extension of that; though the less flattering parts of who he is coming to light in extreme magnification was part of that he could have easily lived without, there was also so much good in discovering that, despite his terrible joke and things which took their own time to be smoothed over, the three of them stayed together. Had built upon everything to turn it into something far beyond his dreams could've reached for in that it was even better, and that part he'll never regret.
Some part of Claude understands, then, when Hilda says but and names them as the reason. It's the very same thought which hasn't left his mind since the fight with the dragon: that here they're whole, and for that he would stay. Even still, it takes him a second before he nods slowly in acknowledgement after thinking through all she's said. ]
Something you want always matters, Hilda. Even if you think it's something that could be set aside, that doesn't change that it's important no matter what and you shouldn't set it aside forever, no matter what it is.
[ It's a truth he's lived by himself and something he means with all sincerity. Certainly, some of his goals have changed over time. As he'd written in that letter, there are many things he no longer wants to do alone as he'd always assumed he would before Fodlan, before Garreg Mach, before Hilda, before Sylvain - before those wants had shifted and adapted to encompass far more than alone. His gaze stays on her all the while as he keeps running his fingers slowly through her hair, then adds, ] And more than that, you also shouldn't hold back from it for anything or anyone.