do you remember love?

(shy) (twirling my hair) after the one battle when claude tells the others to go back home and inform their houses of the situation i amm imagining that sylvain offers to come with emile because otherwise she'd be coming and going alone for some portion of the journey if she doesn't tag along with someone else. since he's not from the alliance he doesn't exactly have anything to do at this time and it doesn't feel right to stay behind and do nothing so he feels the least he could do is make sure she's safe. Yep

coming back to this i'm imagining when they get to her house sylvain waits outside just idling while she talks to her parents and like 10 minutes later she storms out looking more haggard and pissed off than he thought she was capable of and they ride back for another 10 minutes until he's like Sooooo......can i ask what happened ? in that forcibly casual way of his. and she's like Well they forbid me from going back to garreg mach and participating in this war and i said no and they said fine they didn't care if i lived or died. so that's the state of affairs. and he's properly sympathetic about it because family situations suck and she's just sort of like what can you do (uncharacteristically cynical). which troubles him and when they get back to the monastery he insists on hugging her and offering to buy dinner and extra snacks and everything and that's when she just crumbles because she's been building this resentment for 25 years without any real outlet for it and in that specific moment she feels that no one else is capable of uniquely understanding how it feels to hate your life and the way you've been raised except for him. (nod)

Man can i just say after a while even if ur a self shipper you need to re-engage with your f/os source outside the context of self shipping or u will begin to lose sight of the themes the original story is trying to present.