#and the sq is great material to build of hc

[ceniwen]

Ahh, I saw your reply to cyno's sq2 and if I may add to it!! I think Cyno isn't someone who is usually extremely emotional when it comes to himself, but he shows way more of it when it's affecting people he cares about (Cyrus, Nari, Collei etc). He probably also grew up with the knowledge that he's an "orphan" either way (after being taken to Sumeru by Cyrus), and has no recollection of his parents either, so I think that also made him go "shrugs", because I think it'd be worse if he had had a lovely and loving childhood and then suddenly got sold off... if that makes sense. (We don't know how his parents treated him before that, but he forgot it either way/was too young to truly remember his parents probably).

Overall though I also think it's what you all wrote in the comments: he's also the type to think about these things later on. In that situation itself, he had to make sure that Cyrus would be unharmed, and wasn't sure what to expect and how things would go, and that job at hand was more important than the newfound knowledge that his parents sold him off to be experimented on.

It's also part of his personality I think... which is like "the past can't be changed, the future can't be foretold" so he focuses on the present instead. I think that partially also adds to the entire "Cyno had no reaction"! At least I think, living with this mindset for over a decade, this'll likely have influenced his reaction!

So sorry for the big comment... but I was thinking about him and also trying to explain his behaviour and thought maybe it was OK to share my thoughts/insights!

Yea no I understand i agree with a lot of it! The no emotional reaction part is just funny to think about. What I would have loved is that if the sq was more critical (or showed what cyno thought) of Cyrus because he was involved in the experiment AND buying of cyno from his parents. Even though he changed his mind and even after taking a kid away from his homeland to the rainforest, which cyno struggled a lot in adapting to, it wasn't discussed further. He also kept his involvement and experiment a secret from Cyno the entire time. Cyno reminds me a lot of kids who grew up away from their native culture and had to assimilate to the new one.

He may have wanted to protect Cyno because he also did when the akedemiya sages wanted to experiment on cyno (windblume limited event) but keeping such an important memory and the very reason why cyno was taken away from his home is not the right decision in my opinion. Which could have been a source of conflict between them. And I wanted cyno's reaction to that!! Or traveler for that matter!! or someone to bring it up!! tighnari??

So yea! I would have loved more of a reaction from Cyno in that sense. If anything it felt more of a Sethos' sq because Sethos was the one who went through any change at all lol. Cyno was the same from start to finish and didn't have to battle with any emotional conflict.

Cyno from past quest was very pragmatic about his feelings. The way he mentioned how he had to keep quiet or be as truthful as possible so the people in the rainforest could trust him. Also how he struggled in the akedemiya before meeting his friends. It's just that in this one the same reaction or introspection wasn't there.