[Oh... oh. So it's like that. God, the multiverse is a complicated web of worlds and timelines. He exhales smoke as he thinks about it.]
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Well, even if Zuko saw the other timeline's Gokudera in you at first, you guys still hit off as yourselves in the end, right? As for staying single, just do what feels right. If this is it, then go for it, but don't stand in your own way.
[He knows that Gokudera probably can't imagine falling in love again right now, but he's saying this preemptively, just in case. Then again Gokudera's been through so many losses, he probably doesn't need advice on the matter, all the less from a man who's still yearning for the love interests he left behind on the last world.]
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Well, even if Zuko saw the other timeline's Gokudera in you at first, you guys still hit off as yourselves in the end, right? As for staying single, just do what feels right. If this is it, then go for it, but don't stand in your own way.
[He knows that Gokudera probably can't imagine falling in love again right now, but he's saying this preemptively, just in case. Then again Gokudera's been through so many losses, he probably doesn't need advice on the matter, all the less from a man who's still yearning for the love interests he left behind on the last world.]