(okay, there are several things, but presently none of his friends are in mortal danger, so. basically one thing)

why does this always happen to him

he somehow found the daddy issues button

oh hey same hat

teyvat's saddest high five

you can tell when rean has ISSUES surrounding someone when he refuses to use their name. and in this case, it's hate

lutha just like oh this sounds familiar

lutha's dad was also a noble doing shady fucking stuff in the name of the public good so

YUP, SAME HAT...

oh no

Osborne is very much NOT a noble, which is why the whole civil war started in the first place. And in his very slight defense he DID do a lot of good for the commoners! He's popular among them for a reason!

lutha didn't even have to bring him to corpse mountain either

nope they're just. chilling under a snake skeleton while lutha avoids talking about his rain fear and they just. started talking about the World

Far less popular with his kid who he's forcing to go take over countries for him. And whose friend-with-questionable-relationship-status resorted to terrorism to kill, except it didn't even stick, so lmao whoops Crow died for nothing

NOTHING LIKE RUNNING UP TO A GUY AND SCREAMING "YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BE DEAD, MY DEAD EX SHOT YOU" and finding out that guy happens to be your biodad

and it got philisophical for a second and then rean got just a tiny bit Grr and lutha was like "oh, hey he has some bite" and asked a question and now Rean is like GRR X 1000

yeah Osborne is one of those guys in history where you cannot deny they caused a lot of positive change, but also realllly sucked as a human being.

rean is not even remotely at the point where he can relate to him on any level that isn't GRR x 1000

and also you know, had a tendency to steamroll other people in the name of progress

he has like 200 more hours of game before then

RIGHT

touches the ground

i hate..... that lutha empathizes with this

elliot: empathy lutha
lutha now: but this sucks though

empathy DOES suck

but deal with it

YUP...

he can deal with it when it's anger bc that's unfortunately comfortable

anyway oh no

but also yeah Elliot has no love for Osborne and has no guilt in assisting with killing him

yeah luthas main question is "aight so what do you plan to do with all of.... this...." and just mentally gesturing at all of that

rean: die, mostly

I mean, yeah mood, but

wow can't believe lutha will have hindsight for this oddly specific thing

we have found THE ONE SITUATION where lutha has both empathy AND hindsight... incredible...

lutha just here to make the cold steel cast real emotionally tired I guess

he has one job and he is EXCELLING at it

yay......

yeah gold star Lutha

DONT GIVE HIM A GOLD STAR FOR THIS WEEPS

i should throw crow at him sometime

MEET THE COLD STEEL TEAM ASSHOLE

please he needs to interact with every member of the CS cast

LBJFYVUBJ

me seeing the crow tag i just got and just staring into the sun

crow, the only person in this cast who would be like YEAH DRAW A GUN IT'S COOL