#he knows theres differences between him and thancred. and things thancred just isnt great at

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smthg about katsu being what really feels like the first person to go to ryne and be like "hey. i know you've found a good place right now where you can make decisions for yourself but still want to follow in minfilia's footsteps but like. you've been living your life for someone else for so long and if you ever decide you just want to live for you, not for anyone's benefit but your own, i'll always be there to support you. no matter what you choose to do" i don't necessarily think thancred and the scions pressured ryne at all to take on the role of oracle after minfilia faded away, i think it was still ryne's choice to honor her legacy after all she did for the first. but i wonder sometimes if she adopted thancred's whole thing of "i need to be working my whole life because i'm alive to help other people." aside from ranjit, he WAS her first real role model, after all. and i think, especially after he goes through his DRK/arch knight arc post 6.4, katsu knows very well that dedicating every bit of your life to helping others without saving spare time for yourself is... definitely not great for your mental wellbeing and sense of self. and knowing what ryne's been through, i think he would hate to see her go through a burnout of the sort that he had. i don't think she would nearly have it anywhere as bad as thancred, but we see in 6.5 that she's still focused on restoring the empty via botany. i think katsu's line of thought would be "well i'm not really sure if this is a problem she has or not right now, but i'm going to reinforce to her that she'll be supported no matter what she does, just in case. couldn't hurt, right?"