[Ohhh boy. This is...a lot. Claude takes a deep breath, just...thinking over his response for a minute.]
Dimitri...it's not like I don't get where you're coming from. I do. I'm sure you have the same kind of regrets I do about Sylvain and Felix and Byleth disappearing, wishing you could have seen them off better. Had your last memories of them here be more meaningful. Told them goodbye.
But...that's how things go here. It can happen anytime, to any of us, can't it? But that's true whether or not we live in fear of what tomorrow will bring. And I think if we'd spent all our time with them dreading those losses, living as though each day with them was going to be our last...our memories of them would actually be worse. All of them tinged with fear and melancholy. That's not how things should be. That's not how people should live.
I do want to marry you, Dimitri. But not because I'm afraid you won't be here tomorrow. I don't want you marrying me just so you have something to hold onto when I'm gone. I want you to marry me because that's how you want to spend the days when you're still with me. If I'm going to marry anyone, it'll be out of love and joy, not fear and despair.
So if that's why you're asking this question...I'm honestly not inclined to answer it. You're not asking for the right reasons.
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Dimitri...it's not like I don't get where you're coming from. I do. I'm sure you have the same kind of regrets I do about Sylvain and Felix and Byleth disappearing, wishing you could have seen them off better. Had your last memories of them here be more meaningful. Told them goodbye.
But...that's how things go here. It can happen anytime, to any of us, can't it? But that's true whether or not we live in fear of what tomorrow will bring. And I think if we'd spent all our time with them dreading those losses, living as though each day with them was going to be our last...our memories of them would actually be worse. All of them tinged with fear and melancholy. That's not how things should be. That's not how people should live.
I do want to marry you, Dimitri. But not because I'm afraid you won't be here tomorrow. I don't want you marrying me just so you have something to hold onto when I'm gone. I want you to marry me because that's how you want to spend the days when you're still with me. If I'm going to marry anyone, it'll be out of love and joy, not fear and despair.
So if that's why you're asking this question...I'm honestly not inclined to answer it. You're not asking for the right reasons.