Nobunaga nods about Reginald, slowly. And has a weird moment of wondering the same about himself. But it's not like he fucked up Oichi more than everything else, right? It was just the circumstances of birth, something he was fighting against even now.
A quiet hum as Klaus gets an inward sort of expression Nobunaga recognizes well to mean that Klaus is trying to think how the right things to say and do, given the situations he's been through before, and foresees happening again in the future, and what is the correct way to play out the go pieces of life. So Nobunaga just nips their earlobe to draw Klaus' attention back to the current moment and Nobunaga himself.
"They don't want to, but they are--" Scared. Scared? Not the best word for either horse or monkey. "Always themselves, no matter where they are." He nods solemnly. "I've discussed this with her too. That such a stubborn refusal to adapt to new circumstances, in order to cling to her identity can be an easily exploited weakness, but--" Nobunaga closes the red eyes. How much CAN Tayrey change? How much is worth it too? The stubbornness might make her hard enough to crack, but it also had some diamond strength and durability that helped her recover where she thought she couldn't. "I am unclear how much right I have as a commander or friend to do anything about it. And I do not want to make things worse."
A sigh. "Hideyoshi is very... tricky." His tricky monkey. "I can push him more than Tayrey, but he just doesn't get it sometimes. He's not as smart as her. She's a genius. Mitushide too. But she is like a horse. Push too much, she'll bolt. Still, she was the one who decided to go to the bathhouse with you and me, even after stubbornly insisting she would not. And with karaoke, she defeated me in it, but still did the songs afterward. Like a horse," another nod. "Sometimes horses won't drink new water, because it could be poisonous, or there could be snakes or kappa." There are no kappa, and horses don't fear that. "So you have to show them it's safe. A very smart horse you never have to truly train, just like hawks. Just given them a place for respite, and they will be free to do as they do best."
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A quiet hum as Klaus gets an inward sort of expression Nobunaga recognizes well to mean that Klaus is trying to think how the right things to say and do, given the situations he's been through before, and foresees happening again in the future, and what is the correct way to play out the go pieces of life. So Nobunaga just nips their earlobe to draw Klaus' attention back to the current moment and Nobunaga himself.
"They don't want to, but they are--" Scared. Scared? Not the best word for either horse or monkey. "Always themselves, no matter where they are." He nods solemnly. "I've discussed this with her too. That such a stubborn refusal to adapt to new circumstances, in order to cling to her identity can be an easily exploited weakness, but--" Nobunaga closes the red eyes. How much CAN Tayrey change? How much is worth it too? The stubbornness might make her hard enough to crack, but it also had some diamond strength and durability that helped her recover where she thought she couldn't. "I am unclear how much right I have as a commander or friend to do anything about it. And I do not want to make things worse."
A sigh. "Hideyoshi is very... tricky." His tricky monkey. "I can push him more than Tayrey, but he just doesn't get it sometimes. He's not as smart as her. She's a genius. Mitushide too. But she is like a horse. Push too much, she'll bolt. Still, she was the one who decided to go to the bathhouse with you and me, even after stubbornly insisting she would not. And with karaoke, she defeated me in it, but still did the songs afterward. Like a horse," another nod. "Sometimes horses won't drink new water, because it could be poisonous, or there could be snakes or kappa." There are no kappa, and horses don't fear that. "So you have to show them it's safe. A very smart horse you never have to truly train, just like hawks. Just given them a place for respite, and they will be free to do as they do best."