The offer of not only a tour but a room startles him enough that he actually takes half a step back, arms coming up across his chest, crossed briefly before one hand gestures in Squall's general direction-
"-with you?" The smirk, when it comes, is a shadow of it's former arrogance, something almost wry now. He starts to open his mouth, to snap off some comment about keeping ones enemies closer. But there's something about the way Squall looks at him, looks up at him that makes him bite his tongue for once. If Squall is willing to make an effort he should too. Right? There's no one else-
Raijin and Fujin hadn't been in those pods. The versions of them in Twilight Town had been reconstructions from his memories, just like so much else. Pieces of the minds of those trapped thrown together to create something better.
So the smirk softens, just enough that one might almost call it a smile, and Seifer reaches out a hand to pull Squall back to his feet. "Guess it's not the worst thing I've endured."
For a moment Squall wonders if Seifer has really changed over the years. He seems kind and the fact he hasn't really made any teasing jokes for a record amount of time and now here he is walking over to him with his hand out. It takes Squall a moment to actually comprehend this version of Seifer. It had been so long since he last saw him and now this change is a lot to take it, but then he's ruining that whole new façade with his snarky comment.
Squall just rolls his eyes but takes Seifer's hand and stands up, letting go of him as soon as he is standing again. "I'll make this as painless as possible." he starts to walk off, expecting Seifer to follow. "So this is Radiant Garden....its a work in progress still but...it's home."
In his defense... the years since Darkness took their world have largely been spent with, somehow, less emotional maturity than he'd had before things had gone to shit. Would either one of them know how to deal with the other if there wasn't some level of friction between them? Of course he sasses Squall. That's.... how they are. How they've always been.
(He thinks, briefly, of Hayner and the others. An entire lifetime of memories and people that don't exist outside his memory anymore. How it's always been is shit. But he doesn't know how to be anything else.)
Whether Squall believes it or not he is making an effort. Which only makes it sting more when Squall just walks off like he's supposed to follow along like a good little doggie. (Somewhere he remembers being called the Sorceress's lapdog and that stings too.)
"One Garden to another, huh?" It could be an innocent enough statement, observation, even amusement but there's something biting and bitter in his tone that makes it clear it's not. What it is meant to be he's not sure. An accusation?
It's been so long that sometimes Squall forgets the connections to his old live and a comment like that does have him pause. He waits for Seifer to catch up with him before walking beside him, still leading but not in front. "Yeah...I guess I did leave one for another..."
There is so much more he wants to say but words fail him. He left his whole life in that other world, so many and found this nee one, a new purpose. Or rather he was forced into this new one. It hasn't been for naught, he knows that. While he's not a keyblade wielder he still did help Sora in the gran scheme of things and helped get this world back to its peaceful existence. His part was important and he wouldn't change that, just like he wouldn't change their past either. Sure he'd have liked to do things different, better, but maybe it was meant to be this.
"So...have you looked around at all yet or...you came to find me immediately?" He's not sure if that's the right question to ask so he shakes his head immediately and tries again. "Actually...are you hungry? I can make you something at my place."
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Date: 2022-09-16 12:06 am (UTC)"-with you?" The smirk, when it comes, is a shadow of it's former arrogance, something almost wry now. He starts to open his mouth, to snap off some comment about keeping ones enemies closer. But there's something about the way Squall looks at him, looks up at him that makes him bite his tongue for once. If Squall is willing to make an effort he should too. Right? There's no one else-
Raijin and Fujin hadn't been in those pods. The versions of them in Twilight Town had been reconstructions from his memories, just like so much else. Pieces of the minds of those trapped thrown together to create something better.
So the smirk softens, just enough that one might almost call it a smile, and Seifer reaches out a hand to pull Squall back to his feet. "Guess it's not the worst thing I've endured."
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Date: 2022-09-16 03:33 pm (UTC)Squall just rolls his eyes but takes Seifer's hand and stands up, letting go of him as soon as he is standing again. "I'll make this as painless as possible." he starts to walk off, expecting Seifer to follow. "So this is Radiant Garden....its a work in progress still but...it's home."
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Date: 2022-09-16 07:58 pm (UTC)(He thinks, briefly, of Hayner and the others. An entire lifetime of memories and people that don't exist outside his memory anymore. How it's always been is shit. But he doesn't know how to be anything else.)
Whether Squall believes it or not he is making an effort. Which only makes it sting more when Squall just walks off like he's supposed to follow along like a good little doggie. (Somewhere he remembers being called the Sorceress's lapdog and that stings too.)
"One Garden to another, huh?" It could be an innocent enough statement, observation, even amusement but there's something biting and bitter in his tone that makes it clear it's not. What it is meant to be he's not sure. An accusation?
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Date: 2022-09-18 02:57 pm (UTC)There is so much more he wants to say but words fail him. He left his whole life in that other world, so many and found this nee one, a new purpose. Or rather he was forced into this new one. It hasn't been for naught, he knows that. While he's not a keyblade wielder he still did help Sora in the gran scheme of things and helped get this world back to its peaceful existence. His part was important and he wouldn't change that, just like he wouldn't change their past either. Sure he'd have liked to do things different, better, but maybe it was meant to be this.
"So...have you looked around at all yet or...you came to find me immediately?" He's not sure if that's the right question to ask so he shakes his head immediately and tries again. "Actually...are you hungry? I can make you something at my place."