Playing... [Chin in hand, in thought. Could any of his siblings said that about him, or him them? Not even a little, unfortunately. But he kind of gets it. In Nobuhide's case, Nobunaga's father was extremely soft-hearted (compared to the times!), and would have prevented the worst of the fighting. In Zuko and Azula's case, it seemed more like her cruelty was to gain and mimic their father. Flame Emperor, was it not?]
Nobuyuki would rather be dead than live with me as clan leader or more. He made that abundantly clear, and insisted if I didn't kill him, he'd never stop. So I did. By my own hand. [He's not... happy about it, but his eyes are just icy all the same. As Mai (who rescued him from Honno-Ji) has yet to tell him; it's not that he doesn't feel pain, but he's buried it so deeply he doesn't even know it exists.]
[And indeed, Nobunaga considers forcing people to live in his prisons actually torture for them given the sort of messed up state of Japan and romanticized ideals of honor and suicide.] Gozen, our mother, hasn't forgiven me. I don't expect her to. [He hasn't forgiven himself, but he doesn't see any thing he could have done differently either. Nobuyuki wasn't just trying to kill Nobunaga, after all.]
I get it. [He still expects a sort of "oh shit I'm having tea with a demon king" reaction from Zuko for the Nobuyuki thing, but all the same, he likes Zuko!]
[He tenses at the idea of meeting a monk. A devout monk. But... Zuko continues on, and he relaxes.] I spoke with Hikaru, I think. He was familiar with my -- In his timeline, I reportedly died in a fire at Honno-Ji, believed to have been set by Akechi Mitsuhide. Mitsuhide is my left hand, and here with me, and also has a kitsune familiar. Though in my time, I was rescued from the fire, it was rather recently. [Headshake.]
Ah admittedly... I have a bit of a terse relationship with religion. Not specifically religious beliefs, but to go back to Nobuyuki...
To become the Demon King, you have to kill all the other demons, and become the most extreme of them. The worst of them.
Nobuyuki wanted to be clan leader for the same reason plenty of other demons abused their power. Wealth, status. Things like that. No. More than that... Tradition. [Sort of distant for a bit, and then shakes his head, snapping mostly out of it.] The--
[Shifts his jaw.] It might be better if you ask Hikaru, though I don't know how much is written. It seems like Hideyoshi scrubbed certain parts of my reputation, and the monks were all killed, so they didn't exactly have too many survivors, never mind victors, to write about our wars.
There were a few extreme sects that acted much the same as Nobuyuki. Worse. They wanted traditions upheld. Politics. They reinforce the barrier I mentioned holding everyone back.
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Nobuyuki would rather be dead than live with me as clan leader or more. He made that abundantly clear, and insisted if I didn't kill him, he'd never stop. So I did. By my own hand. [He's not... happy about it, but his eyes are just icy all the same. As Mai (who rescued him from Honno-Ji) has yet to tell him; it's not that he doesn't feel pain, but he's buried it so deeply he doesn't even know it exists.]
[And indeed, Nobunaga considers forcing people to live in his prisons actually torture for them given the sort of messed up state of Japan and romanticized ideals of honor and suicide.] Gozen, our mother, hasn't forgiven me. I don't expect her to. [He hasn't forgiven himself, but he doesn't see any thing he could have done differently either. Nobuyuki wasn't just trying to kill Nobunaga, after all.]
I get it. [He still expects a sort of "oh shit I'm having tea with a demon king" reaction from Zuko for the Nobuyuki thing, but all the same, he likes Zuko!]
[He tenses at the idea of meeting a monk. A devout monk. But... Zuko continues on, and he relaxes.] I spoke with Hikaru, I think. He was familiar with my -- In his timeline, I reportedly died in a fire at Honno-Ji, believed to have been set by Akechi Mitsuhide. Mitsuhide is my left hand, and here with me, and also has a kitsune familiar. Though in my time, I was rescued from the fire, it was rather recently. [Headshake.]
Ah admittedly... I have a bit of a terse relationship with religion. Not specifically religious beliefs, but to go back to Nobuyuki...
To become the Demon King, you have to kill all the other demons, and become the most extreme of them. The worst of them.
Nobuyuki wanted to be clan leader for the same reason plenty of other demons abused their power. Wealth, status. Things like that. No. More than that... Tradition. [Sort of distant for a bit, and then shakes his head, snapping mostly out of it.] The--
[Shifts his jaw.] It might be better if you ask Hikaru, though I don't know how much is written. It seems like Hideyoshi scrubbed certain parts of my reputation, and the monks were all killed, so they didn't exactly have too many survivors, never mind victors, to write about our wars.
There were a few extreme sects that acted much the same as Nobuyuki. Worse. They wanted traditions upheld. Politics. They reinforce the barrier I mentioned holding everyone back.