Back on the Cybertronian Farm...

- I hc that corbeau was very busy dealing with what would soon be the rust syndicate (it being the “venture” adder mentions lysandre helped fund in game) so he wasn’t really there to witness the year or two that followed lysandre’s fall into anger and supposed death. he would call to give updates on his progress of building up the rust syndicate but lysandre had been more distant than before. corbeau thought he was just busy; he never expected for things to turn out the way they did. he has a lot of regrets, thinking about what he could have done to dissuade him from making the decisions he thought were necessary…

- Also recently read an incredible Lysandre and Corbeau fic and have a lot of thoughts rn about the complicated feelings he might have for his benefactor: I mean he’s grappling with the idea that his role model in life - the one who taught him to take as long as he give back to the world, who taught him to play his part in making lumiose a better place - did something so horrible as to want to destroy the world.

Lysandre did a terrible thing and now he doesn’t remember it at all. Corbeau can’t decide what he’s suppose to feel about the guy, doesn’t know what he wants from him now that he knows he’s alive.

- Was is approval? (he giving back what what he’s taken, paying back all that was was given to him plus interest. does he see it? what he taught him to do?)

- An apology? (doesn’t he deserve one? even if it’s from someone who doesn’t remeber what they’re apologizing for).

- Maybe he wants a reason. A reason why he - the person who saw some good in some stray kid like him - decided that it all wasn’t worth it. Was so angry that he thought it was better to turn his back on the world. Why, when choosing who to save, he wasn’t part of it.

- along with the meal corbeau offered lysandre a place to stay at the rust syndicate but was declined

- they didn’t sit in silence: corbeau told lysandre of the work he’s done for lumiose, of what he’s done to give back and make the city more beautiful