I mean it! (He rubs his shoulder,) I'm hardheaded, I'm always making them work, I never leave any of them alone...
A house leader should be noble, refined, brave, and honorable... I'm not a knight like Dimitri or a princess like Edelgard. I'm just a schemer that showed up out of no where one day and snatched a free title.
(And he's... not the slightest bit ashamed. He speaks as casually as if he was speaking about the weather.)
Nobility, refinement... who cares about any of that? [Says the princess.] A leader of any kind should be someone who cares about the people who follow them, and who's willing to work with them to make life better for their people. From what I saw in your memory, you're that person.
[She's very, very serious.]
If you have to scheme a little for that - isn't that okay?
(Claude, a p̵̛͎r̸͉̐i̶̼͒͜n̵̼̍̾c̵̛̫͎̑e̵͎͊ and future duke, agrees completely,)
...
Can't argue when you say it like that. (She sounds so serious! And he recognizes how stubborn she'll be about all of it.) But you know, being a leader isn't all glory or a few simple plans, either.
Sometimes a leader means going to pretty great lengths to protect those under your charge.
[She can't really argue that. She would kill so many men without remorse if it kept her people safe. When she listens to Claude talk about the Golden Deer, though, she gets the sense that he'd do that for them in a heartbeat.]
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I mean it! (He rubs his shoulder,) I'm hardheaded, I'm always making them work, I never leave any of them alone...
A house leader should be noble, refined, brave, and honorable... I'm not a knight like Dimitri or a princess like Edelgard. I'm just a schemer that showed up out of no where one day and snatched a free title.
(And he's... not the slightest bit ashamed. He speaks as casually as if he was speaking about the weather.)
Really, I don't deserve them.
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Nobility, refinement... who cares about any of that? [Says the princess.] A leader of any kind should be someone who cares about the people who follow them, and who's willing to work with them to make life better for their people. From what I saw in your memory, you're that person.
[She's very, very serious.]
If you have to scheme a little for that - isn't that okay?
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...
Can't argue when you say it like that. (She sounds so serious! And he recognizes how stubborn she'll be about all of it.) But you know, being a leader isn't all glory or a few simple plans, either.
Sometimes a leader means going to pretty great lengths to protect those under your charge.
(Like killing a man without remorse.)
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[She can't really argue that. She would kill so many men without remorse if it kept her people safe. When she listens to Claude talk about the Golden Deer, though, she gets the sense that he'd do that for them in a heartbeat.]
...you'd go to any lengths for your class, right?
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Anything.
(He can answer that honestly.)
But not just because I'm their leader or they're my classmates. They're my friends, too.
(His first friends.)
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I know that feeling.