Because that isn't just a dude, that's the dude. If it weren't for the established this-Jade-is-human-and-blades-don't-exist-here, you'd have to question if you hadn't been blasted a thousand years into the past instead.
Jade's driver, from the lifetime in which he and Asch first met, from the days of Jade of the Crimson Snow so, so long before you were even a thought. You take your time looking him over, this time - the casual posture, the blond-and-blue contrast, the young-features-but-settled-expression, they way his eyebrows lift just slightly as he looks at his Jade, needing nothing more to ask the obvious question of what's going on here, Jade?
You might even get a little lost in it, because suddenly Asch tugs at the resonance in the way that means Hey Mythra, wake up and pay attention, and it's incredibly unfair that Foresight is broken but hyperintuition is working fine.
"Sorry," you say out loud. "It's just... It's an honor to meet you, after all."
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"Oh," you say, and then, "Oh, holy shit."
Because that isn't just a dude, that's the dude. If it weren't for the established this-Jade-is-human-and-blades-don't-exist-here, you'd have to question if you hadn't been blasted a thousand years into the past instead.
Jade's driver, from the lifetime in which he and Asch first met, from the days of Jade of the Crimson Snow so, so long before you were even a thought. You take your time looking him over, this time - the casual posture, the blond-and-blue contrast, the young-features-but-settled-expression, they way his eyebrows lift just slightly as he looks at his Jade, needing nothing more to ask the obvious question of what's going on here, Jade?
You might even get a little lost in it, because suddenly Asch tugs at the resonance in the way that means Hey Mythra, wake up and pay attention, and it's incredibly unfair that Foresight is broken but hyperintuition is working fine.
"Sorry," you say out loud. "It's just... It's an honor to meet you, after all."