๏ผ he considers the question, the soft earnestness of it and what he imagines can only be a desire for the connection borne of similarity. but finn chose a question he would not trouble himself to lie about, so after a moment: ๏ผ
No. While you correct in that I've been... 'doing this' for the majority of my life, it would insult what you have endured were I to insinuate our situations were similar beyond our martial training.
๏ผ there's a rustle of his clothing as he shakes his head, hair snaking over one shoulder. ๏ผ
I was raised from birth to be shinobi. Unlike your experience, I had my clan and family around me, the support and protection that their presence entailed.
๏ผ he says it to acknowledge his own privilege rather than in any attempt to rub it in, his voice is gentle, the customary neutrality filed down. what emotion exists there is sorrow at what finn lost, or never had — soft melancholy threaded through the words like ivy winding through a trellis. ๏ผ
It is the custom of my people to attend a ninja academy beginning at age six, where one learns the fundamental skills of the trade, and upon my graduation I served my village in this fashion. Some find that training difficult, but it is rarely brutal — though it can be so, when wartime provisioning is active. I was not born in such a time.
The only thing that is perhaps analogous to your own experience is the time I spent in a unique combat division, first as a unit member and then as a captain. However, I was an adult by then.
๏ผ at least as far as his own perception goes — cultural adulthood is bestowed upon a shinobi when they receive the rank of chลซnin, his promotion happening when he was all of ten. ๏ผ
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No. While you correct in that I've been... 'doing this' for the majority of my life, it would insult what you have endured were I to insinuate our situations were similar beyond our martial training.
๏ผ there's a rustle of his clothing as he shakes his head, hair snaking over one shoulder. ๏ผ
I was raised from birth to be shinobi. Unlike your experience, I had my clan and family around me, the support and protection that their presence entailed.
๏ผ he says it to acknowledge his own privilege rather than in any attempt to rub it in, his voice is gentle, the customary neutrality filed down. what emotion exists there is sorrow at what finn lost, or never had — soft melancholy threaded through the words like ivy winding through a trellis. ๏ผ
It is the custom of my people to attend a ninja academy beginning at age six, where one learns the fundamental skills of the trade, and upon my graduation I served my village in this fashion. Some find that training difficult, but it is rarely brutal — though it can be so, when wartime provisioning is active. I was not born in such a time.
The only thing that is perhaps analogous to your own experience is the time I spent in a unique combat division, first as a unit member and then as a captain. However, I was an adult by then.
๏ผ at least as far as his own perception goes — cultural adulthood is bestowed upon a shinobi when they receive the rank of chลซnin, his promotion happening when he was all of ten. ๏ผ