Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-17114085-20170804144241/@comment-25073873-20170817144849

HambleBee wrote: Asciene remained silent for a bit, contemplating her actions on Taliesin's words. The latter had a point, and began to see things in a different perspective... Taliesin resumed reading, to allow Asciene time for her mind to think. He wasn't the sort to strike up unecessary conversation, even if Estelle expected it of him. He wasn't some counsellor or something along that line. Taliesin never bothered to understand people too much as individuals. In his experience, it always caused more harm than good, especially when someone betrayed you.

Taliesin himself had backstabbed others in his younger days, and returned kindness with evil. As much as he steered himself away from that path and instead educated himself, it wasn't something he could just wash away. And so he understood innate selfishness, and how people were willing to use each other.

Looking at Asciene did set the apparently young man thinking, though. He wondered how someone like her strived to be a hero, and was betrayed by their ideal. Humans betraying each other was something he was familiar with, but he wasn't that knowledgeable when one's ideal collapsed.