We've been thinking about telling you for a while now. We just couldn't find the courage.
[Uendo comes back to the front, taking a deep breath. Okuyasu deserves an explanation.]
Back home, we always had to keep our condition secret. Both for our own safety and to protect Shisho's reputation. To a lot of people, we'd be either a walking horror trope or a faker fishing for attention; even if some might have been open-minded about it, we just couldn't risk anyone finding out. So until we got outed during the trial, Shisho and Geiru were the only ones who knew. [He smiles wryly.] And then Owen immediately got named as a suspect for murder. Not the greatest way to come out, that.
And when we came to Vaikuntha... We didn't know what to expect. We didn't know what the people here would think about someone like us, or how they'd react if we told them. So... We thought it would be safer to keep quiet.
[He has to swallow to keep his voice from shaking.]
As for why we're telling you now... It's gotten harder to hide it. It's hard having no one we can be ourselves around, you know? And it's hard for Patches and Kisegawa to live in a world where no one even knows they exist. We have no idea if Owen is okay -- he's been gone all year and we can't reach him on our own. We just--
[He trails off, suddenly not sure how to finish the big dump of feelings he's dropping on Okuyasu.]
We just... don't want to be alone with it anymore, I guess.
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[Uendo comes back to the front, taking a deep breath. Okuyasu deserves an explanation.]
Back home, we always had to keep our condition secret. Both for our own safety and to protect Shisho's reputation. To a lot of people, we'd be either a walking horror trope or a faker fishing for attention; even if some might have been open-minded about it, we just couldn't risk anyone finding out. So until we got outed during the trial, Shisho and Geiru were the only ones who knew. [He smiles wryly.] And then Owen immediately got named as a suspect for murder. Not the greatest way to come out, that.
And when we came to Vaikuntha... We didn't know what to expect. We didn't know what the people here would think about someone like us, or how they'd react if we told them. So... We thought it would be safer to keep quiet.
[He has to swallow to keep his voice from shaking.]
As for why we're telling you now... It's gotten harder to hide it. It's hard having no one we can be ourselves around, you know? And it's hard for Patches and Kisegawa to live in a world where no one even knows they exist. We have no idea if Owen is okay -- he's been gone all year and we can't reach him on our own. We just--
[He trails off, suddenly not sure how to finish the big dump of feelings he's dropping on Okuyasu.]
We just... don't want to be alone with it anymore, I guess.