Claude downright winces at the thought of...whatever passed between Sylvain, Felix, and Dimitri. He can't imagine the other two are keeping their composure even as well as Claude is keeping his, which is...not well, but that's what texting is for. So you can hide the fact that you're currently a disaster!
Not that he can blame Dimitri and Felix, really. Claude can hardly claim Sylvain means more to him than he does to them...and he certainly can't claim to have lost as much as either of them. To have Sylvain back, but in this strange half-measure of his having lost his memories from before...of course they're not keeping it together.
But Claude hasn't spent most of his life incredibly observant of others and working out their feelings, thoughts, and motives to not be hyper-aware of how this whole situation must be for Sylvain. And he loves the man - memories or no memories. The least he can do is try to cushion the shock of his arrival and filling him in on things as best he can - and if he can do that better than the others(not much of a debate there), then he practically has a responsibility to.]
It's kind of a complicated situation that's tied into how being dumped into this place works.
The thing is, when people get pulled here from their own worlds, we're kind of - snatched out of time, if that makes sense. Time isn't passing in Fodlan while you're here, so you don't have to worry about missing things, or about other people noticing you've vanished. Whenever we get sent home from this place, we're sent back right to the minute we left, as though we were never gone - no matter how much time passes here. Follow me so far?
But when we go back, we lose our memories of this place and anything that happened here. Which is pretty rough, especially if you've been here for a long time and made a lot of memories here, but...that's how it works.
But arriving here, and being sent back...it's at the whims of the power behind this place. And sometimes the same person leaves, and then gets brought back here again. It happened to Dedue, who I somehow forgot to mention as someone else being here. [There's too many Lions, and also Claude is kind of distraught.] And, well...now it's happened to you. This isn't the first time you've been here, but obviously you don't remember anything about the last time. Dedue doesn't remember his last time, either.
Or maybe you're a completely different Sylvain Gautier than was here last time! Because that's another weird thing about this world - it can bring people here from the same world, but from different points in time...or from different versions of events. Teach is here - but they're from a timeline where they chose the Golden Deer house to teach. I'm from a timeline where Teach chose your house. So that's weird. The upshot is that you could be from a timeline that had a very different version of events than other people from our world remember - and from any point in time within those events.
In retrospect, 'complicated' was probably an understatement.
Anyway, Dimitri and Felix...they've been missing you a lot since you left, obviously. And they're undoubtedly sad that you don't remember anything from your last time being here. That's why they're upset.
Having to explain all that is a lot to dump on a guy who just got here, but I figure you're better off knowing the basics than being left in the dark about the weird reactions you're getting. And, well...without all the context, I couldn't really have made their reactions make any sense.
Hopefully people let you settle in before they dump any fine details on you. Just the broad strokes is already a lot to swallow, I know. So you can ask them to confirm what I've told you if you don't want to take my word for it, but unless you're ready to open some floodgates, I wouldn't ask for too much in the way of particulars until you're feeling - not overwhelmed.
Don't worry about what other people's expectations for you are here, though, or what people might be disappointed about. None of it's your fault, and we're glad you're here. (Is that weird to say, when you're probably not even glad you're here right now? Well, you know what I mean.) Dimitri and Felix might be disappointed about the memories, but you're the important thing to them. They're just, you know...caught way off guard. We weren't sure any of us would see you again until whenever this place chooses to send us back to Fodlan ourselves. And that can take awhile.
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Claude downright winces at the thought of...whatever passed between Sylvain, Felix, and Dimitri. He can't imagine the other two are keeping their composure even as well as Claude is keeping his, which is...not well, but that's what texting is for. So you can hide the fact that you're currently a disaster!
Not that he can blame Dimitri and Felix, really. Claude can hardly claim Sylvain means more to him than he does to them...and he certainly can't claim to have lost as much as either of them. To have Sylvain back, but in this strange half-measure of his having lost his memories from before...of course they're not keeping it together.
But Claude hasn't spent most of his life incredibly observant of others and working out their feelings, thoughts, and motives to not be hyper-aware of how this whole situation must be for Sylvain. And he loves the man - memories or no memories. The least he can do is try to cushion the shock of his arrival and filling him in on things as best he can - and if he can do that better than the others(not much of a debate there), then he practically has a responsibility to.]
It's kind of a complicated situation that's tied into how being dumped into this place works.
The thing is, when people get pulled here from their own worlds, we're kind of - snatched out of time, if that makes sense. Time isn't passing in Fodlan while you're here, so you don't have to worry about missing things, or about other people noticing you've vanished. Whenever we get sent home from this place, we're sent back right to the minute we left, as though we were never gone - no matter how much time passes here. Follow me so far?
But when we go back, we lose our memories of this place and anything that happened here. Which is pretty rough, especially if you've been here for a long time and made a lot of memories here, but...that's how it works.
But arriving here, and being sent back...it's at the whims of the power behind this place. And sometimes the same person leaves, and then gets brought back here again. It happened to Dedue, who I somehow forgot to mention as someone else being here. [There's too many Lions, and also Claude is kind of distraught.] And, well...now it's happened to you. This isn't the first time you've been here, but obviously you don't remember anything about the last time. Dedue doesn't remember his last time, either.
Or maybe you're a completely different Sylvain Gautier than was here last time! Because that's another weird thing about this world - it can bring people here from the same world, but from different points in time...or from different versions of events. Teach is here - but they're from a timeline where they chose the Golden Deer house to teach. I'm from a timeline where Teach chose your house. So that's weird. The upshot is that you could be from a timeline that had a very different version of events than other people from our world remember - and from any point in time within those events.
In retrospect, 'complicated' was probably an understatement.
Anyway, Dimitri and Felix...they've been missing you a lot since you left, obviously. And they're undoubtedly sad that you don't remember anything from your last time being here. That's why they're upset.
Having to explain all that is a lot to dump on a guy who just got here, but I figure you're better off knowing the basics than being left in the dark about the weird reactions you're getting. And, well...without all the context, I couldn't really have made their reactions make any sense.
Hopefully people let you settle in before they dump any fine details on you. Just the broad strokes is already a lot to swallow, I know. So you can ask them to confirm what I've told you if you don't want to take my word for it, but unless you're ready to open some floodgates, I wouldn't ask for too much in the way of particulars until you're feeling - not overwhelmed.
Don't worry about what other people's expectations for you are here, though, or what people might be disappointed about. None of it's your fault, and we're glad you're here. (Is that weird to say, when you're probably not even glad you're here right now? Well, you know what I mean.) Dimitri and Felix might be disappointed about the memories, but you're the important thing to them. They're just, you know...caught way off guard. We weren't sure any of us would see you again until whenever this place chooses to send us back to Fodlan ourselves. And that can take awhile.