[Whether it had been meant or not, it had happened and Gladio'd had every intention of not doing it again...
He sighed.]
That's what I mean. I was an idiot. I treated you the way I'd been trained and expected the same results. It drove me crazy when it didn't work. Couldn't understand why... because I never thought to see it from your side.
[But now he did. He had. And he regretted so much... He wished he could go back and do things again. Maybe things would have gone differently? He looked down at his own hands then and gave a quiet laugh.]
You don't have to be the same, Noct... Don't have to ever open up if you don't want. Just needed you to know it won't be the same. I'm... trying. Trying to be better.
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He sighed.]
That's what I mean. I was an idiot. I treated you the way I'd been trained and expected the same results. It drove me crazy when it didn't work. Couldn't understand why... because I never thought to see it from your side.
[But now he did. He had. And he regretted so much... He wished he could go back and do things again. Maybe things would have gone differently? He looked down at his own hands then and gave a quiet laugh.]
You don't have to be the same, Noct... Don't have to ever open up if you don't want. Just needed you to know it won't be the same. I'm... trying. Trying to be better.