[He stares at the phone for a few minutes, trying to figure out how to word this. Honestly, this had seemed a lot easier in his mind.]
Uh well I've just been hearing some things. Rumors. You know. And I figured I'd go straight to the source. There's a truce, right? Everyone from Fodlan is playing nice.
Soooo where does that leave you and Lady Edelgard?
[Alright, so he really didn't care about the truce, that was all fine and good, but he had to know if the rumors about Dimitri and Edelgard were legit. He had to know.]
[ Rumors, huh....... It's been months since he's done anything that could really give cause to gossip, but-- ]
The truce leaves us in the same place as everybody else. In the time we have spent on this island, we have joined forces on more than one occasion, learned about each other and set most of our differences aside. I don't know how events played out in your home world, but before coming here, I remember telling all of you that I wished to be able to reach out my hand to her and have her reach back, and I believe she has.
[ This is all true, but there's definitely some more that goes beyond the scope of their truce as it was-- aka the juicy deets. ]
However, is that truly what you wanted to know? You do realize there is no need for such preamble between us, correct?
Oh come on! How long've you known me, your majesty? And you're going to keep secrets from me?!
IS it a secret? WHY is it a secret? Aren't you happy to be courting Edelgard? Proud? Want to shout it from the rooftops?
[What do you mean not everyone wants to tell everyone about their new romantic endeavor or latest love of their life the week.]
Well, even if you want to keep it all hush hush for reasons I can't fathom, I'm still happy for you two. Not a weird gift, daggers always get the job done!
[Maybe he should see if any of the shops around here sold some quality blades... for reasons.]
that was him telling you about it? don't tell me Dimitri Alexandre Blaiddyd has managed to be subtle when he's not trying to be?!
Either way! He could point that out, but what Sylvain says last is what really catches his attention. ]
Excuse me? "Not a weird gift"? I seem to recall you pestering me about that dagger since the day I told you about it, reminding me at every given opportunity of how completely inappropriate a gift it had been! Why, you downright called me inexperienced!
[Details, Dimitri! He wants all the juicy details! You know, the ones he always offers up when no one has asked for them.]
Pestering you about not knowing what giving someone a blade MEANT. Not pestering you that it was a weird gift!
It's the whole being oblivious about what giving her a dagger means that we're teasing you about!
If you like/liked her then giving her a dagger makes perfect sense... and was like proposing marriage. Which is pretty cute.
[Look, all of them had some interesting stories from when they were ten. Dimitri had given an age appropriate girl a dagger, Sylvain had hit on a milf. Tomatoe, tomahto.]
[ Yes, well, if that's the kind of juicy details Sylvain is hoping for, he'll be left waiting for a long, long time. Dimitri still has some sense of propriety, you know!
But maybe not so much as a child, it would seem.
Give him a moment, Dimitri.exe is trying to process this. ]
I understand you take sadistic pleasure from hearing about my every failed foray into romantic overtures. On multiple occasions, you have called me naive, and uptight, and surely you must have found it a hoot and a half. And for many years, [ and perhaps against his better judgement ] I have both trusted your advice and allowed you to keep stringing me along.
But you cannot seriously expect that, at this point in life, I would still fall for such a blatant attempt at tricking me! First of all, I know very well that blades are seen as tools of destiny in Faerghus, and more importantly, proposals are made with rings!
[ He knows his stuff! Also don't call him cute, he's not ten anymore! Foot stomp!! ]
Come on, your majesty! I've only ever tried to help you. The advice works for ME! [Sort of. In the way that stepping out in front of traffic works if you want to be hit by a car.]
I've never set you up for failure, your majesty. Sure, sometimes the situations you manage to get yourself into are pretty funny but it's because they were never my intention that they're so amusing. I guess I'm just terrible at giving advice...
Regardless! I'm not trying to trick you! Ask anyone. Ask Felix or Ingrid. Or, I guess, just Felix. Tools of destiny, exactly!, and when given to someone you care about are almost the same as an engagement ring. You're basically saying you wish your destiny and theirs would intertwine. Get it?
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Uh well I've just been hearing some things. Rumors. You know. And I figured I'd go straight to the source. There's a truce, right? Everyone from Fodlan is playing nice.
Soooo where does that leave you and Lady Edelgard?
[Alright, so he really didn't care about the truce, that was all fine and good, but he had to know if the rumors about Dimitri and Edelgard were legit. He had to know.]
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The truce leaves us in the same place as everybody else. In the time we have spent on this island, we have joined forces on more than one occasion, learned about each other and set most of our differences aside. I don't know how events played out in your home world, but before coming here, I remember telling all of you that I wished to be able to reach out my hand to her and have her reach back, and I believe she has.
[ This is all true, but there's definitely some more that goes beyond the scope of their truce as it was-- aka the juicy deets. ]
However, is that truly what you wanted to know? You do realize there is no need for such preamble between us, correct?
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Yeah. That's what you said. I guess, I should admit that I wasn't really that hopeful that it'd go all that well.
But enough talk about all that.
You two have patched things up in your time here, right? 'Kissed and made up' so to speak? How much kissing and making up are we talking?
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Sylvain... [ You can practically hear his tone of light admonishment from over the screen! ] There is only one of us who is the type to kiss and tell.
[ Normally, that sure wouldn't be Dimitri! But, well. There is something he's been sort of dying to tell Sylvain in particular, so. ]
However, you should know that, even though it was an odd choice of gift for a girl, the dagger has been well received and fairly effective.
[ In other words, he gave his little girlfriend a dagger and (several years later) it worked, now stop giving him so much grief over it!! ]
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IS it a secret? WHY is it a secret? Aren't you happy to be courting Edelgard? Proud? Want to shout it from the rooftops?
[What do you mean not everyone wants to tell everyone about their new romantic endeavor or latest love of
their lifethe week.]Well, even if you want to keep it all hush hush for reasons I can't fathom, I'm still happy for you two. Not a weird gift, daggers always get the job done!
[Maybe he should see if any of the shops around here sold some quality blades... for reasons.]
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Sylvain
that was him telling you about it? don't tell me Dimitri Alexandre Blaiddyd has managed to be subtle when he's not trying to be?!
Either way! He could point that out, but what Sylvain says last is what really catches his attention. ]
Excuse me? "Not a weird gift"? I seem to recall you pestering me about that dagger since the day I told you about it, reminding me at every given opportunity of how completely inappropriate a gift it had been! Why, you downright called me inexperienced!
[ He was ten, Sylvain! Ten!! ]
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Pestering you about not knowing what giving someone a blade MEANT. Not pestering you that it was a weird gift!
It's the whole being oblivious about what giving her a dagger means that we're teasing you about!
If you like/liked her then giving her a dagger makes perfect sense... and was like proposing marriage. Which is pretty cute.
[Look, all of them had some interesting stories from when they were ten. Dimitri had given an age appropriate girl a dagger, Sylvain had hit on a milf. Tomatoe, tomahto.]
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But maybe not so much as a child, it would seem.
Give him a moment, Dimitri.exe is trying to process this. ]
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I understand you take sadistic pleasure from hearing about my every failed foray into romantic overtures. On multiple occasions, you have called me naive, and uptight, and surely you must have found it a hoot and a half. And for many years, [ and perhaps against his better judgement ] I have both trusted your advice and allowed you to keep stringing me along.
But you cannot seriously expect that, at this point in life, I would still fall for such a blatant attempt at tricking me! First of all, I know very well that blades are seen as tools of destiny in Faerghus, and more importantly, proposals are made with rings!
[ He knows his stuff! Also don't call him cute, he's not ten anymore! Foot stomp!! ]
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Come on, your majesty! I've only ever tried to help you. The advice works for ME! [Sort of. In the way that stepping out in front of traffic works if you want to be hit by a car.]
I've never set you up for failure, your majesty. Sure, sometimes the situations you manage to get yourself into are pretty funny but it's because they were never my intention that they're so amusing. I guess I'm just terrible at giving advice...
Regardless! I'm not trying to trick you! Ask anyone. Ask Felix or Ingrid. Or, I guess, just Felix. Tools of destiny, exactly!, and when given to someone you care about are almost the same as an engagement ring. You're basically saying you wish your destiny and theirs would intertwine. Get it?