#faust sees himself in cain re: faust and alec to cain and arthur

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"For Each Hero, A Petal" Cain R Card Story - An Echo of Kindness

Cain: So this town is related to Lord Alec…

Akira: It must mean a lot to you as a native of Central Country.

Cain: It does, yeah. And while I was still working in the castle, it was like I was surrounded by little stories and extra details about him. Hearing about how he used to do, like…play-pretend fighting really stuck with me. I was like wow… I've done that too…

Akira: Play-pretend fighting…? What do you mean?

Cain: So this happened pretty shortly after he took the throne. There was a group of kids in what'd become the royal capital playing in a field, talking about how one day they'd grow up and be part of the revolutionary forces too.

Akira: (Ohh, so like little kids pretending to be their favorite character in the Sunday morning Superhero Time show block?)

Cain: But they didn't have enough people playing the grunt soldiers, so they called out to a young man walking nearby and asked him to play with them. The young man agreed and joined their group, running around and shouting stuff like "Lord Alec, it's time!" at all the right moments, all that good stuff, but… Well, you know how this ends. That was his Majesty King Alec himself, patrolling around town.

Akira: I…! I thought so…!!

Cain: Ahaha. That story got passed around a lot when people were talking about what a kind person he was. It was one of the number one stories they went to to prove it. …But. I think he went to play with children incognito for a different reason.

Akira: Really? What other reason could there be?

Cain: I mean, it'd be like some kids asking me to play knights with them, you know? So what I think it was, was the joy and excitement of knowing that everything he'd done was now just something kids could act out for fun. So of course he'd wanna join in on that when the opportunity presented itself!

Akira: I see… (I know I've heard about how Central's first king, Alec, wasn't raised as a noble, but just a regular kid. That's how Cain was raised, too…) (…He probably doesn't realize it, but now that I'm thinking about it, the two of them are kind of similar, aren't they?)