[Ouch with that last thing, don't just say that they all held out hope that Ain would come back because something-something friends always return to each other. Raven is good at not showing emotion on his face, though he does look away at that and frown; Add, meanwhile, manages a fully-offended scoff like he's been burned by the warm metal his hands are currently pressed up against. There's the sound of something being screwed or perhaps drilled to fill the silence, and only when the din of mechanical apparatuses dies down does anyone bother to speak again.]
...well, [oof dude,] it was probably about a year now, I think.
[So maybe Vash is right in saying "Ain might not have returned". Someone with a more positive outlook on life, like Elsword or Chung or Rena, would disagree with that sentiment. Sometimes people need to strike out on their own for a year and come back when they're ready. Raven has a passively-negative outlook on things like that, where unless he's encouraged to think otherwise, he might be inclined to agree with the negative simply because he's had people in his life disappear and never come back for one reason or another. Add... Add has an incredibly, incredibly fearful side to him, where abandonment at all makes him itch, because he sees it as a personal failing on his part. It's never made any sense why, and it wouldn't have been his fault, but now the seed is planted and the roots spread and it burns.
Briefly, he fumbles with the tool he's holding, cusses, and bends down to pick it up.]
How long ago did you meet him, exactly. [It's not said like a question, but it is one.] You own him, don't you? And yet you didn't know he tends to run off.
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...well, [oof dude,] it was probably about a year now, I think.
[So maybe Vash is right in saying "Ain might not have returned". Someone with a more positive outlook on life, like Elsword or Chung or Rena, would disagree with that sentiment. Sometimes people need to strike out on their own for a year and come back when they're ready. Raven has a passively-negative outlook on things like that, where unless he's encouraged to think otherwise, he might be inclined to agree with the negative simply because he's had people in his life disappear and never come back for one reason or another. Add... Add has an incredibly, incredibly fearful side to him, where abandonment at all makes him itch, because he sees it as a personal failing on his part. It's never made any sense why, and it wouldn't have been his fault, but now the seed is planted and the roots spread and it burns.
Briefly, he fumbles with the tool he's holding, cusses, and bends down to pick it up.]
How long ago did you meet him, exactly. [It's not said like a question, but it is one.] You own him, don't you? And yet you didn't know he tends to run off.