You mean you were worried I might not be properly enchanted if you gifted me with a dagger? [Claude's eyes have regained some of their sparkle; they really are starting to emerge from their grief, for that to be back.
Also, while it's no surprise that someone ratted that story out to him at some point, the question is who told him. Sylvain or Felix are honestly both equally likely.]
I get where you were coming from, Dimitri, and I don't actually disagree with your logic. But for what it's worth - there's no way someone I love could come to me and tell me they wanted to be with me forever, expressing their love the best way they knew how, that wouldn't mean the world to me. Especially if it was you. With how far you've come, and how hard you try? Even if you made some kind of misstep, I could never hold it against you.
[He gently pulls Dimitri down so they can rest their foreheads together.] I love you, with all my heart. And marrying you, getting to be with you for as long as we can, as fully as we can...that means more to me than any of the details of how it happens.
[This kind of earnestness has been coming to him, oddly, easier and easier the more he loses. But Dimitri's got it right, doesn't he? Refusing to go all in doesn't make them any richer, and losing the opportunity to do so...even without having made as full a commitment as they could have, it's still a loss. Not just of what they had already invested, but the opportunity cost of what they hadn't.]
As for your fears...I can't judge you for those. In my own way, I guess I've been holding back for different reasons, but with the same outcome. Not afraid I'd ruin things, but afraid I can't trust them. Like if I edge out too far onto the ice, it'll give way under my feet. But if a man afraid of breaking things can reach out his hand for something more...then I think the man afraid of trusting people doesn't have any excuse not to learn to be a little braver.
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Also, while it's no surprise that someone ratted that story out to him at some point, the question is who told him. Sylvain or Felix are honestly both equally likely.]
I get where you were coming from, Dimitri, and I don't actually disagree with your logic. But for what it's worth - there's no way someone I love could come to me and tell me they wanted to be with me forever, expressing their love the best way they knew how, that wouldn't mean the world to me. Especially if it was you. With how far you've come, and how hard you try? Even if you made some kind of misstep, I could never hold it against you.
[He gently pulls Dimitri down so they can rest their foreheads together.] I love you, with all my heart. And marrying you, getting to be with you for as long as we can, as fully as we can...that means more to me than any of the details of how it happens.
[This kind of earnestness has been coming to him, oddly, easier and easier the more he loses. But Dimitri's got it right, doesn't he? Refusing to go all in doesn't make them any richer, and losing the opportunity to do so...even without having made as full a commitment as they could have, it's still a loss. Not just of what they had already invested, but the opportunity cost of what they hadn't.]
As for your fears...I can't judge you for those. In my own way, I guess I've been holding back for different reasons, but with the same outcome. Not afraid I'd ruin things, but afraid I can't trust them. Like if I edge out too far onto the ice, it'll give way under my feet. But if a man afraid of breaking things can reach out his hand for something more...then I think the man afraid of trusting people doesn't have any excuse not to learn to be a little braver.