#which is tricky because kudo doesn't open up easily to just anyone and riva is a very suspcious isolated island on purpose

[pocketramblr]

For Dreams are at the heart of sorcery, surely they would've known making AFO so attached to his brother in order to keep him from turning on Yoichi's line would've made him so attached to Yoichi that he refuses to make any connections behind him because he feels all he needs is Yoichi and that he would become murderous once losing said cherished brother?

(dreams)

you'd think so yeah, but the trouble is "they" are 1- an incredibly independent wolf sorceress who has devoted so much to Prophecy that she doesn't even need to keep her mortal body on hand all the time, and 2- said Prophecy, a force of universe and destiny that continuously works to right the universe to it's happiest state. and also they didn't make AfO so attached- not on purpose, anyway. the dramatic irony of it all, i suppose.

Their plan was that AfO traveling for his studies would let him have other connections, other friends and people he cared for, the plan was that he'd see the world outside the Vale how they see it- something worth working to protect, even through sacrifice. if not because of it's innate value the gods created it with, then because AfO himself had invested so much time and effort into it. The plan was to learn of destiny from the Tree, and of love from Yoichi, and take both out of the Vale.

Unfortunately, the plan just... didn't work. AfO never loves the outside world- summertime Riva is more dreary and colorless than wintertime Vale- and while he is proud of some of his work (like getting sorcery banned in Tolnedra) its because he was showing off, not for any other reason.

they also didn't expect the murder reaction, because... well, up until that point... AfO hadn't murdered anyone that the two of them hadn't pointed him at. But Yoichi's death was the first time for a lot of things