[Ignoct]
I'll also tell you anything you want to know, if it helps you understand. Your family's garbage, as you say, didn't rule everything. My family may have sent me to serve you because of your family. But the reason it wasn't just a job to me was because of you, and who you were - in general, and to me. I had no idea how to have a friend, you taught me that, even if it was wrapped up in duty too.
I appreciate you giving me space. But I don't need it from you. I'd always rather sort things out with you rather than without.
I came to feel differently, but in those first days I just knew that all of you needed help, and that there was very little I felt capable of doing. It was ... difficult to adjust to seeing myself as a burden rather than a help. It's why I offered to stay behind. But I was learning to work with what had changed. Gladio said that by his time, I was back to doing almost everything I'd been able to do.
I wasn't trying to make you feel badly. How I felt had nothing to do with anything you did or didn't do. It was my own expectations.