I want you to know that I'm going to do my very best to not disagree with you out loud.
[Even though he still struggles to see it. To see himself so positively. Smart, kind, good. But he doesn't vocalize it more.
The mention of family earns a stunned look, Daan's eye trailing down to their hands. The expression he wears is bashful now, less confident, but not in a bad way. Really, he just hadn't expected that kind of declaration.]
...I would've been happy with that.
[Ultimately, it's always what he wanted. To be loved, to have a family. Only... it'd be something truly special in this imaginary scenario with Cloud and his mother. And he never really felt like he belonged in the von Dutch manor. Because he didn't, he knew that, and the cat knew it too. Who could say he'd belong anywhere?]
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[Even though he still struggles to see it. To see himself so positively. Smart, kind, good. But he doesn't vocalize it more.
The mention of family earns a stunned look, Daan's eye trailing down to their hands. The expression he wears is bashful now, less confident, but not in a bad way. Really, he just hadn't expected that kind of declaration.]
...I would've been happy with that.
[Ultimately, it's always what he wanted. To be loved, to have a family. Only... it'd be something truly special in this imaginary scenario with Cloud and his mother.
And he never really felt like he belonged in the von Dutch manor. Because he didn't, he knew that, and the cat knew it too. Who could say he'd belong anywhere?]