Shawn

There is always darkest before the dawn.

*Shawn - A trainee swordsman serving the Sword of Light.*

*An orphan adopted by Brian.*

*Brian's adopted son. Precocious heir of a great legacy.*

## Intro

One ominous night, a terrible tragedy was brought on by an act of kindness, resulting in the orphaning of Shawn, 5 years old at the time. Brian, having witnessed everything, felt himself possessed by some strange psychological impulse to take the tragic child and raise him on his own.

Ten years later, having been raised in a White Cape camp, Shawn accepted the White Capes 'Representative of Justice' line of thinking. Regretting having invited disaster by helping a Gyee, he joined the Sword of Light like his adoptive father. However, Shawn found that the hand that had been bitten by a Gyee girl ten years ago and was abnormal. He harbored the fear that he had caught the Gyee 'virus.' He confessed this to Osmond, who hid from him the truth that Brian had entrusted him with long ago - that Shawn had always been a Gyee. Shawn, ignorant of the truth, could only bury the torturous secret of his strange hand inside his heart.

As such, Shawn, as a White Cape reserve soldier, spent his tough childhood under Brian's care, getting bullied by his envious peers. Later on, Shawn was injured during a Shadow attack. Just as the Shadows had surrounded him, a mysterious figure in black saved him and then fell into a river, disappearing...

### Forming a Pact

**Shawn's rarity:** SR

**Max Epiphany without Illumination:** Level 5

The player can form a pact with Shawn by the following methods:

* Starter Summon
	+ Use 14 Heart Stones to add this Gyee to the Starter Summon pool.
* Limited Summon
	+ You can form a pact with Shawn by summoning him on his limited-time banner.

## Skills

### Basic

* [Mortal Enemy]: Taunt effect. While the effect is active, the character goes out of control, uses normal attacks on the caster automatically and takes 15% more DMG from Shawn. Lasts 2 rounds or is removed after being hit by Dragon Sun Slash.
* [Divine Blade's Mark]: Refer to passive skill Divine Blade's Judgment for its effect.

**Skill Level**
1. 77%
2. 83%
3. 89%
4. 95%
	+ At the beginning of the battle, applies 1 Stack of [Divine Blade's Mark] to a random enemy target. Since then, after every 4 rounds, (Round 5, 9, 13, etc.), removes all [Divine Blade's Marks] on the enemies' side before self action, dealing damage based on the removed [Divine Blade's Mark] Stacks. Each stack of [Divine Blade's Mark] deals P.DMG by P.ATK\*26%, then applies 1 Stack of [Divine Blade's Mark] on a random enemy target.
		- [Divine Blade's Mark]: the mark left by Dragon Blade on the enemies. Increases 1 Stack when the target receives attack from Shawn, up to 4 Stacks. Removes all Stacks and deals P.DMG to the target when reaching max Stacks.
* **Heart of Valor**
	+ Increases Blade Strike's damage by 23%.

### Advanced

* [Divine Blade's Mark]: Refer to passive skill Divine Blade's Judgment for its effect.

**Skill Level**
1. 117%
2. 127%
3. 137%
4. 147%
	+ Increases Shield Bash's damage by 23%.
* **Relentless**
	+ If [Divine Blade's Mark] exists on the enemies' side, and the target of this skill doesn't have [Divine Blade's Mark], Shield Bash's damage will not reduce (-50% when the passive skill is locked)

### Ultimate

* [Resilience]: Refer to passive skill Divine Blade's Son for its effect.

**Skill Level**
1. 508%
2. 550%
3. 592%
4. 634%
	+ Increases Dragon Sun Slash's damage by 18%.
* **Shockwave**
	+ When current self Rage is 85 or higher, using [Dragon Sun Slash] deals 50% damage to the adjacent enemies.
* **White Cape's Will**
	+ Grants to self 3 stacks of [Resilience] if the target has 3 stacks of [Divine Blade's Mark]. (Grants 2 stacks when the passive skilled is locked)

### Mastery

* [Resilience]: While the effect is active, the character is immune to control, and self damage dealt is increased by 10% upon each stack. Removes 1 stack when receiving P.DMG, up to 6 stacks, lasting until the battle is over. Cannot be dispelled.

## Imprint

### Basic Engraving

* Valor Engraving (MaxHP +1.92% per Engraving level)
	+ Each engraving level requires I.N. Flux - Earth x120 and Gold x25,000

### Imprint Skill

The following Imprint Skill can be equipped on other Gyees and Avatars once unlocked.

* [Unyielding Will], lasts 8 rounds, cannot be dispelled, will be removed upon defeat, and cannot be stacked.
	+ Reduces 15% Ranged Single Target DMG taken for self
	+ After casting Defense, if self is at full HP and has no debuffs, including [God] and [Invincibility], grants all allies [God] and self [Sacrifice], after that, removes self's [Unyielding Will].
* [Sacrifice], lasts 2 rounds, cannot be purified, will be removed upon defeat, and cannot be stacked.
	+ Loses 25% Max HP upon getting the effect
	+ self's all skills will be sealed.
* [God], lasts 1 round, cannot be dispelled, will be removed upon defeat, and cannot be stacked.

## Intimacy

### Date Choices

Dates will give either 500, 700, or 900 intimacy points depending on the choice selected.

* **A Song - He doesn't care whether the affection in the song is real or not, but who's heart is he trying to breach with the contents of the song?**
	+ **Cue:** Could you help me out?
		- Turn in a blank sheet
		*900 Intimacy*
		- Write down what you truly feel
		*700 Intimacy*
		- Just make something up
		*500 Intimacy*

* **Root of Love - Shawn is constantly reminded by everyday details to love and be loved by others.**
	+ **Cue:** Do you prefer egg whites or egg yolks?
		- Whites
		*700 Intimacy*
		- Yolks
		*900 Intimacy*
		- I'm not picky
		*500 Intimacy*

* **Halves - One half of himself said, don't save me. The other half said, did you hear my call for help?**
	+ **Cue:** Why would Brian insist on making you see a shrink?
		- Your childhood tragic?
		*900 Intimacy*
		- Being bullied at school?
		*500 Intimacy*
		- The relationship with your Dad?
		*700 Intimacy*

### Intimacy Blocks

To reach Intimacy levels 7 and 11, Shawn needs mementos (found in Darkflux Raid), reiki (found in Extreme Fight or Arcana Tracker), and the following block item:

* **Intimacy Level 7**
	+ S-Consultation Coupon
		- Supposedly cares about the youth, but youths in their right minds never come here.
		Used in Intimacy Breakthrough with Shawn. Obtained through enemies in Darkflux Raid.
* **Intimacy Level 11**
	+ Mysterious Ring
		- A magical ring from Az. Who wouldn't want it? Well, maybe Shawn, the next bearer of the ring, doesn't.
		Used in Intimacy Breakthrough with Shawn. Obtained through any Extreme Fight.

### Basic Drink Preferences

 25% bonus

 50% bonus

 25% bonus

 No bonus

*Note: All blended drinks have a base preference bonus of 25% that can be modified by the drink's attributes.*

### Gift Preferences

**50% bonus**

**25% bonus**

**No bonus**

### Views

Unlock views by leveling the intimacy of other gyees.

* **Osmond**: That boy doesn't like owing anyone. Every time I treat for his wound, he is always thinking about returning the favor. He is drawing a line between himself and everyone else in a polite yet cold way...
*Osmond's Intimacy reaches Lv.2 to unlock*
* **Shirou**: Shawn is a guy who is unwilling to argue with others most of the time, leaving a false impression of a push-over. But when he has made up his mind, he will always stand his ground and never takes a single step back! Humph! As I told you before, he is like a wolf cub, young but vicious. And that's... cute.
*Shirou's Intimacy reaches Lv.4 to unlock*
* **Daley**: I can't believe I've fallen out of love! Shawn, you idiot! Pursuing you didn't interfere with my study. It was study that interfered with my chase after you!!!
*Daley's Intimacy reaches Lv.6 to unlock*
* **Brian**: Family? My feeling is always complicated when facing him. Perhaps I should have entrusted him to a real famliy instead...
*Brian's Intimacy reaches Lv.8 to unlock*
* **Brian's Colleague**: He is raising a son who will return the favor in the future.
* **Light of Purity Stalker**: Shhh! He is the one General Will has been searching for.
* **Bully of Shawn**: He has gained too much favor from my Captain Brain... This is his crime, and that he doesn't reflect on himself is a even greater crime.

## Scripts

### Consolation Letter

Since I was a child, I never made any wishes at my birthdays. I always know that even if I have a sincere wish, no one will... or I should say, no one can realize it for me, except you.

You are an unexpected oddity in my life, one that has broken my beliefs and punched through my defenses, devouring all my despair. I have been lying to myself for so long, yet I can't help but still notice all the miracles you have proven to me.

Thank you for bringing light and warmth to my life...

### Bath Drama

* Can you pass me the towel? Thanks!
* I learned how to swim in a pool like this... When I'm good enough, I can swim in the sea with Daley and Shirou.
* I love a good bath after training. Papa too. But he's always tied up with work and he wouldn't bathe with me...

### Fave Hottie Slogan

Daley and Shirou are here, but my wound isn't healed yet and it's too late to bandage it. I'll just pretend it's part of my makeup. Don't spoil the ruse!

### Intimacy Breakthrough

**This section contains spoilers for Intimacy Breakthrough scenes.**

**-Intimacy Level 4**

**Shawn**: I don't know what my future will be like...
**Shawn**: But if I keep trying, somethings are bound to happen, right?

**-Intimacy Level 5**

**Shawn**: Master Az made a magical ring.
**Shawn**: I had it when I was just a little boy.
**Shawn**: My grandfather said that it was a great honor bestowed upon our family.

**-Intimacy Level 6**

**Shawn**: Don't worry about me.
**Shawn**: I will be a better man than those bullies!
**Shawn**: Now, and even more in the future!

**-Intimacy Level 7**

**Shawn**: I had been living with my grandfather since my earliest memories.
**Shawn**: Till I was five years old...
**Shawn**: One night, I was woken by a noise in the kitchen.
**Shawn**: I saw a little girl about my age.
**Shawn**: She was in grimy rags, scavenging the trash for food.
**Shawn**: One of her eyes was yellow.
**Shawn**: It was she who got frightened.
**Shawn**: I gave her some biscuits and she wolfed them down.
**Shawn**: People outside had encircled the house,
**Shawn**: Stirred awake, grandfather went looking for me.
**Shawn**: When he found me, he scolded me to go back. His last words to me were...
**Shawn**: No matter what you hear, do not go outside.'
**Shawn**: I took one last look at him before going back to my room.
**Shawn**: Frustrated, grandfather was watching through the window.
**Shawn**: Then he took the yellow eyed girl away, despite her struggles.
**Shawn**: After a while, it was still noisy outside. I went out to see...
**Shawn**: When I stumbled out of the house...
**Shawn**: My grandfather was lying in a pool of blood.
**Shawn**: A soldier was dragging the blood-stained girl away. Both of her eyes turned yellow.
**Shawn**: The soldier tried to drag her away from the body of my grandfather.
**Shawn**: But she wouldn't let go. She strained every nerve to reach grandfather's gushing wound.
**Shawn**: I fought her with all my strength...
**Shawn**: But I couldn't defeat a beastified Gyee.
**Shawn**: I couldn't even win against a starving little girl.
**Shawn**: She bit me on the hands. Those deep wounds are still visible today.
**Shawn**: That day...
**Shawn**: Captain Brian has completed his mission of capturing Gyees.
**Shawn**: But out of pity, he decided to take me as his foster child.
**Shawn**: In just one night, I lost one home and yet found another.
**Shawn**: And you know what happened after that.
**Player**: ...
**Shawn**: I love my Papa and I always obey him.
**Shawn**: Except when I make excuses to avoid seeing the shrink.
**Player**: So, you threw away the counselling ticket he gave you?
**Player**: And I happened to find the ticket and gave it back to you?
**Shawn**: Ha-ha, yeah.
*Scene transition*
**Shawn**: The ticket is in my hands again. It's probably the fate for me to see that shrink.
**Player**: Tell them your problems and let professionals help you.
**Player**: That's what Captain Brian would have wanted.
**Shawn**: I know Papa means well. I don't want to disappoint him either.
**Player**: Then why do you hate seeing a shrink?
**Shawn**: I can never bare my soul to a stranger...
**Shawn**: I can't talk to a shrink about myself when I am conscious.
**Player**: Then you could try telling him unconsciously, while hypnotized.
**Shawn**: (Shake head) ...
**Shawn**: I have too many secrets, some of which are the worst kind...
**Shawn**: (Apologetically) I must stay awake and choose my words carefully...
**Player**: Ah. Maybe you don't need to see the shrink. He might report back to your Dad.
**Player**: The ears of a person whom you only meet once in your life.
**Player**: But they can only listen. They can't comfort you.
**Player**: But what you really need is a friend you could trust!
**Shawn**: ... A friend?
**Player**: When you are ready, you could tell your entire story to him.
**Player**: Even if you are only telling him part of the story, you could get some kind of comfort.
**Player**: So, you should consider making some friends.
**Shawn**: I think I have found the right candidate to be my friend.
**Shawn**: And I already told him my secrets...
**Player**: ...
**Shawn**: ...

**-Intimacy Level 8**

**Shawn**: Why don't we shake hands?
**Shawn**: Hello.
**Shawn**: I am Shawn, Apprentice Swordsman of the White Cape.
**Shawn**: I am, and will always be, your friend.

**-Intimacy Level 9**

**Shawn**: Papa has never let me win...
**Shawn**: He forced me to grow up.
**Shawn**: But I am afraid that one day I will win against him.

**-Intimacy Level 10**

**Shawn**: Except death, only one thing could set Papa and I apart...
**Shawn**: It's growing up.
**Shawn**: Coming of age...
**Shawn**: It's completed in an instant.

**-Intimacy Level 11**

**Shawn**: The ring...
**Shawn**: Did you find it?
**Player**: Ok.
**Player**: Brian said you are the owner of this ring.
**Player**: He wouldn't do it for me. He insisted that I return it to you myself.
**Shawn**: Oh.
**Player**: Oh?
**Player**: You look like you could care less. Does it truly belong to you?
**Shawn**: (Nodding) My grandfather gave it to me.
**Shawn**: It's the only thing he left for me.
**Player**: All the more reason for you to keep it safe!
**Player**: Why didn't you look for it?
**Shawn**: ...
**Shawn**: The ring is important to my family.
**Shawn**: But not to me...
**Player**: !!!
**Shawn**: I have no memory of my family. No love either.
**Shawn**: It was someone else who told me about the origin of the ring.
**Player**: I can understand why you don't remember them...
**Player**: But no love... I don't believe it.
**Player**: You don't love your grandfather, who gave you this ring?
**Shawn**: ...
**Shawn**: I dare not love him.
**Shawn**: I do. But what can I do?
**Shawn**: Am I supposed to seek revenge for him?
**Player**: Revenge? You mean you will kill that yellow eyed girl?
**Shawn**: (Shaking his head) Why would I kill someone who risked her life to protect my grandfather?
**Shawn**: I should kill the White Capes who have raised me.
**Player**: !!!
**Player**: Everyone in the White Cape?
**Shawn**: ...
**Player**: Including Brian?
**Shawn**: ...
**Shawn**: It was his man who mistakenly killed my grandfather.
**Shawn**: Yet he has kept it a secret from me, even now.
**Player**: !!!
**Player**: Who told you all this?
**Shawn**: The ring in your hand.
**Shawn**: The one made by Master Az.
**Shawn**: I only have one word to describe it – wonder.
**Shawn**: Nightmares will recur. Lies will be exposed.'
**Player**: ...
*Scene transition*
**Player**: Let me get it straight...
**Player**: Brian saw you were orphaned and took you back to the White Cape.
**Player**: Did he tell you that it was his soldier who killed your grandfather by accident?
**Shawn**: (Nodding) My grandfather was trying to protect the yellow eyed girl.
**Shawn**: She was just trying to press on grandfather's wound.
**Shawn**: Oblivious of what truly happened, the five-year-old me took all my anger out on her.
**Shawn**: I watched her being taken away by Papa's men, all terrified. I even felt vindicated.
**Shawn**: But it's just a lie. Gyees are not murderers. My childhood was a lie.
**Player**: So...
**Player**: Do you know where that girl is now?
**Shawn**: (Shake his head) She must be dead.
**Shawn**: She tried to run away but got caught. Even then she was still convicted of murder.
**Shawn**: I used to hate her to guts. I hated her for being an ingrate and for making me a Gyee.
**Shawn**: How foolish of me!
**Shawn**: I thought the White Capes were my savior. It was them who vindicated my grandfather and caught Gyees.
**Shawn**: I hated the wrong enemies for ten years.
**Shawn**: I owe her a debt that I could never pay back.
**Shawn**: I couldn't even apologize to her.
**Shawn**: And I must pretend to hate her in front of Papa.
**Player**: ...
**Player**: When did you find out?
**Shawn**: Before I handed the ring to Papa...
**Player**: Does Brian...
**Shawn**: He doesn't know.
**Shawn**: The ring won't show it to him.
**Player**: He must feel guilty.
**Shawn**: Ok.
**Shawn**: The reason he took me back was not out of pity. It's worse.
**Shawn**: He's just guilty.
**Player**: ...
**Shawn**: I am curious.
**Shawn**: What else does Papa feel about me, except guilt?
**Shawn**: He fostered me out of guilt.
**Shawn**: He raised me out of guilt.
**Shawn**: He cared for me out of guilt.
**Shawn**: But it's not only him.
**Shawn**: I am guilty too.
**Shawn**: I feel guilty that I couldn't pay him back for ten years of caring and loving.
**Shawn**: If I could, I will keep it a secret all my life.
**Shawn**: Papa and I... Let us just keep the way it is.
**Player**: ... I respect your decision.
**Player**: But what about the ring?
**Shawn**: I don't need it for now.
**Shawn**: Someone will come for it anyway.
**Shawn**: Please keep it safe for me.
**Shawn**: Now...
**Shawn**: You are the only one I can trust.
**Player**: ...
**Player**: Okay.
**Player**: I promise you.
**Shawn**: What we have... it's magical too.
**Shawn**: I am telling you my secrets, hoping to get close to you.
**Player**: I won't tell anyone. Your secret is safe with me.
**Shawn**: Thank you.

**-Intimacy Level 12**

**Shawn**: I want to let you in a little secret.
**Shawn**: Think carefully.
**Shawn**: You should have noticed it long ago.
**Shawn**: I...
**Shawn**: Every encounter we have is not an accident.
**Shawn**: Osmond said 'the more you care about something, the more it tortures you.'
**Shawn**: I am so pissed!
**Shawn**: I know you are 'torturing' me.
**Shawn**: But I can't stop thinking about you...
**Shawn**: Showing up by your side.
**Shawn**: Testing your boundaries.
**Shawn**: Making every effort to be connected to you.
**Shawn**: When you love someone, you become lowly. I know that feeling well...

**-Intimacy Level 13**

**Shawn**: I don't want you to pity me.
**Shawn**: The pitying look is more hurtful than ending my life.
**Shawn**: I will stop crying.
**Shawn**: No one would see my weakness.
**Shawn**: Especially you.
**Shawn**: I could have been someone indestructible...
**Shawn**: Someone who cares about nothing...
**Shawn**: Offense or defense, I am excellent in both.
**Shawn**: I should be invincible.
**Shawn**: When I realize I care too much about you...
**Shawn**: It's too late for me to back out.
**Shawn**: I have no choice but to go forward.
**Shawn**: Despite the thorny road ahead.
**Shawn**: But no matter what happens...
**Shawn**: I will try my best to walk towards you.
**Shawn**: Are you ready to accept me?

### Dates

**This section contains spoilers for Date scenes.**

**A Song**

**-Intro**

**Shawn**: I love music.
**Shawn**: But I hate my music teacher.
**Shawn**: Because he tries to flirt with Papa!
**Player**: (Listen some more)
*Scene transition*
**Shawn**: After class, teacher made me stay in the music room.
**Shawn**: He gave me an assignment, claiming it's a special project for me.
**Player**: What assignment?
**Shawn**: Write lyrics for a tune.
**Shawn**: He asked me to write down my true feelings, like a journal.
**Player**: Could you guess what he truly means?
**Shawn**: (Nodding) ...
**Shawn**: He always...
**Shawn**: Used my daily performances as an excuse to flirt with Papa.
**Shawn**: Then he told Papa how I did in class, with exaggerations, of course.
**Shawn**: The same old story.
**Shawn**: He is always trying to use me as an excuse to get close to Papa.
**Shawn**: Could you help me out?

**-Turn in a blank sheet - 900 Intimacy**

**Shawn**: Blank?
**Shawn**: Doesn't that mean... skipping homework?
**Shawn**: What if he tells Papa? Wouldn't that make it worse?
**Player**: Ha-ha! I'll tell you what to say!
**Player**: Just say these words. I'm sure you'll be okay.
**Shawn**: ... Huh?
**Player**: Tell him that his tune is superbly written. No lyrics are worthy of it.
**Player**: The music is perfect. Lyrics are irrelevant, redundant even.
**Player**: But it's still a bit...
**Player**: Only those without a proper sense of aesthetics need lyrics to make up for their tunes.
**Player**: I am not that kind of person!
**Player**: Am I right? If not, then you must be too modest to admit that your tune is perfect!!
**Shawn**: Ha-ha! Thanks for the tip!
**Shawn**: Got it!

**-Write down what you truly feel - 700 Intimacy**

**Player**: You don't have to mind your teacher.
**Player**: All you need to know that your Dad cares about you.
**Player**: And your teacher is using you to approach your Dad.
**Player**: Likewise, you could use him to make your Dad understand you more.
**Shawn**: ...
**Shawn**: Hmm, I see.
**Shawn**: I will take your advice!
**Player**: ...

**-Just make something up - 500 Intimacy**

**Player**: Don't trouble yourself with those petty things.
**Player**: Use your time wisely.
**Player**: Plus, with your Dad's looks, it's only natural for him to attract unwanted attentions.
**Player**: It's understandable that your teacher wants to flirt with him.
**Player**: Do you really want your Dad to stay single all his life?
**Shawn**: You? Are you attracted to Papa too?!
**Player**: Hey, buddy! You are truly sensitive when it comes to your Dad!
**Shawn**: Not you! I will never agree to that! Anyone but you!
**Player**: Alas...
**Shawn**: You are my friend!
**Shawn**: Mine!
**Player**: ...

**Root of Love**

**-Intro**

**Shawn**: I made some tea-flavored eggs...
**Shawn**: You wanna some?
**Shawn**: I forgot to ask you...
**Shawn**: Do you like eggs?
**Player**: Yes
*Scene transition*
*Shawn peels the egg carefully, separating the egg white and the yolk.*
**Shawn**: Do you prefer egg whites or egg yolks?

**-Whites - 700 Intimacy**

**Shawn**: Ha! Me too!
**Shawn**: We are so in sync!
**Shawn**: Then I'll give the egg white to you!
**Shawn**: Just leave the yolk to me.
**Player**: Don't you prefer egg whites too?
**Shawn**: Ha ha!
**Shawn**: When I was little, Papa always knew that I preferred whites over yolks.
**Shawn**: Whenever he made boiled eggs, he would eat the egg yolks.
**Shawn**: I started to understand that feeling ever since I met you.
**Shawn**: If you are happy, finishing your food makes me happy too.
**Player**: ...

**-Yolks - 900 Intimacy**

**Shawn**: ...
**Player**: What's wrong?
**Shawn**: Ha-ha, it's nothing.
**Shawn**: I just remembered something.
**Shawn**: When I was little, I never told Papa...
**Shawn**: What I liked or disliked.
**Shawn**: But he found out my preferences in his own way.
**Shawn**: He would always eat the yolks.
**Shawn**: And I thought I was lucky...
**Shawn**: I thought he just happened to like to eat things that I hated.
**Shawn**: What a spoiled child I was!
**Shawn**: So...
**Shawn**: Can I ask you that again?
**Shawn**: Do you really prefer yolks?
**Player**: Yeah, it's true! I like yolks!
**Shawn**: Wow! We are perfect for each other!
**Shawn**: From now on, I'll keep all the yolks for you.
**Player**: Great! Thanks!

**-I'm not picky - 500 Intimacy**

**Shawn**: Not picky? That's great!
**Player**: Ha-ha, are you picky?
**Shawn**: It's kind of embarrassing.
**Shawn**: When I was little...
**Shawn**: Papa knew that I only preferred whites.
**Shawn**: And disliked yolks.
**Shawn**: Whenever he made boiled eggs,
**Shawn**: He would eat the yolks.
**Shawn**: When I grew up...
**Shawn**: He warned me about not wasting food.
**Shawn**: Saying picky eaters would grow up stunted.
**Shawn**: He made me eat the whole egg.
**Shawn**: And I swallowed every bite with great efforts.
**Shawn**: As much as I hated the yolks,
**Shawn**: I felt genuinely happy at the time.
**Player**: ...
**Shawn**: Just give me a sec.
**Shawn**: I will peel another egg for you.
**Shawn**: Okay.

**Halves**

**-Intro**

**Shawn**: Can you help me?
**Shawn**: Make my Papa drop the idea that only shrinks could save me!
**Player**: (Help him)
*Scene transition*
**Player**: Why would Brian insist on making you see a shrink?
**Player**: Is it because of...

**-Your childhood tragic? - 900 Intimacy**

**Shawn**: (Nodding) ...
**Shawn**: That's the main reason.
**Shawn**: Because of something I said.
**Shawn**: And those words might have freaked him out.
**Player**: What did you say?
**Shawn**: I said...
**Shawn**: If my entire family hadn't died, I would never have met Papa.'
**Player**: !!!
**Shawn**: I am truly sorry for what I said!!
**Shawn**: That idea hit me just for a second and I was overwhelmed by guilt.
**Player**: ...
**Shawn**: I knew that you might freak out if I tell you.
**Shawn**: I can explain why I said those things!
**Shawn**: I was just trying to piss him off!
**Shawn**: All those inconsiderate, hurtful words…
**Player**: Now that you are forced to see a shrink, you see the consequences...
**Shawn**: (Sighing) Yeah...
**Shawn**: Papa must think that he has raised a psychopath...
**Player**: Ha ha ha!!
**Shawn**: I really hate seeing the shrink. You could help me more.
**Player**: That's easy...
**Player**: You can come to me whenever you want. I won't turn you down.

**-Being bullied at school? - 500 Intimacy**

**Shawn**: (Shake head) ...
**Shawn**: He has no idea.
**Shawn**: All the things that happened at school... I have kept them a secret.
**Shawn**: From him.
**Shawn**: But I do find myself a bit abnormal.
**Shawn**: I will beat up every bully.
**Shawn**: What I hate the most is not the vicious cycle of violence.
**Shawn**: It's that those bullies would change for the better and decide to apologize one day.
**Shawn**: After saying their apologies, they are free. It doesn't matter what I say.
**Shawn**: I hope they would rot in hell, to a point of no return.
**Shawn**: I wish they would never see who they truly are.
**Shawn**: I don't want them to change for the better.
**Shawn**: Because they have ruined my life, which would never change for the better.
**Player**: ...
**Shawn**: I am sorry for telling you all this...
**Shawn**: I am afraid too. I am turning to a horrible person.
**Shawn**: If you don't like that about me...
**Shawn**: I am willing to change, for you!
**Shawn**: I really hate seeing the shrink. You could help me more.
**Player**: ...
**Player**: Sure. I won't turn you away.
**Shawn**: ...

**-The relationship with your Dad? - 700 Intimacy**

**Shawn**: (Nodding) ...
**Shawn**: It's partly because of that.
**Shawn**: Papa and I haven't been talking for a long time.
**Shawn**: If I don't tell him, he won't ask.
**Shawn**: If he doesn't ask, I won't say anything.
**Shawn**: We keep things from each other...
**Shawn**: He must be worried about me. That's why he forces me to talk to someone...
**Player**: Ha-ha, that's easy!
**Player**: If you don't want to see a shrink, you could always talk to me!
**Player**: You seem quite talkative in front of me.
**Player**: You can come to me whenever you want. I won't turn you down.
**Shawn**: ...

### Trifle

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**Wild Fantasy**

Being too familiar... usually blinds one from the heart of another.

**-Part 1**

*Scene - A restaurant*
*Found an anonymous journal...*
*Waited a long time, but nobody came to claim it...*
*Open the first page of the journal to find the owner.*
*With the question in mind, read the journal page by page...*
*Many characters, both new and familiar, appear in this first-person story...*
*Scene - School gates*
*Oberth*
*Shawn stands in front of another boy his age*
**Shawn**: Oberth.
**Shawn**: Why do you keep following me?
**Oberth**: (Innocently) It's you who always bring me along.
**Shawn**: The classes are over now.
**Shawn**: I don't have a fight after school.
**Oberth**: How cruel...
**Oberth**: You only see me as your friend when you need courage.
**Oberth**: Are we friends bond by schoolyard violence?
**Shawn**: (Hesitant)...
**Shawn**: You can't follow me today. The place is not right for you.
**Oberth**: So, my dearest Mr. Brian is going to dine with his adopted son?
**Oberth**: Isn't that something you wanna show off?
**Oberth**: I am hungry too. Why don't you lead the way?
**Oberth**: I promise I'll keep my mouth shut.
**Shawn**: You can't address Papa by his name.
**Oberth**: Come on! If you wanna act like a nice kid in front of him, so be it!
**Oberth**: Just don't get in my way!
**Shawn**: Oberth.
**Shawn**: (Frustrated)... Don't you understand?
**Shawn**: You will ruin everything if you keep showing up like this.
**Shawn**: You'll drag me down in the end...
**Oberth**: Finally, you are admitting your true feelings.
**Oberth**: You are such a coward. And you pin everything on me.
**Oberth**: Don't forget that I AM you! We are practically the same!
**Shawn**: (Gritting his teeth) I am nothing like you!
**Shawn**: We are not the same!
**Oberth**: (Annoyed yet amused) How are we different?
**Shawn**: (Word for word) I AM NOT AS SELFISH AS YOU!
**Shawn**: If you hadn't said those things in front of Papa the other day...
**Shawn**: I would never ask Papa to love me in that way.
**Shawn**: Nor will I ask him in the future!
**Shawn**: Unlike you, I would never embarrass him!
**Oberth**: Hypocrite! I thought you would thank me...
**Shawn**: For what?
**Oberth**: For helping him to see...
**Oberth**: That his adopted son has a twisted affection towards him...
**Oberth**: And for helping you to know yourself...
**Shawn**: ... You!
**Oberth**: What's wrong with you?
**Oberth**: It's normal for a kid your age to have a crush.
**Oberth**: Just admit your feelings! There's nothing to be ashamed of!
**Shawn**: ...
**Shawn**: It's not about the crush.
**Shawn**: It's about the person I have a crush on!
**Shawn**: Can't we just keep the way it is?
**Shawn**: Don't you think we are happy now?
**Oberth**: Humph! Not me!
**Oberth**: After everything you've got...
**Oberth**: Surely you are happy!
**Oberth**: But what about me?
**Oberth**: I helped you two get closer! But I still haven't got the answer I wanted!
**Shawn**: So what?
**Shawn**: You could make Papa like you too! Horrid and disgusting as you are...
**Oberth**: Shawn, how do you know that he doesn't...
**Shawn**: You fool!
**Shawn**: He is way out of our league!
**Shawn**: Stop having pipe dreams!
**Oberth**: No, I don't believe you.
**Oberth**: Nothing is off limits to me...
**Oberth**: I will never give up.
**Shawn**: But I will! I am the owner of this body.
**Shawn**: The boundary you are trying to break... It's not what I want.
**Shawn**: I don't want to have bad blood with Papa.
**Shawn**: Nor do I wish to see Papa's disappointment in me.
**Shawn**: I am happy enough that we could live together like this.
**Shawn**: I will not allow anyone to get in between us.
**Shawn**: Papa is irreplaceable in my heart. I won't change that for anything! Even becoming his lover!
**Oberth**: Hey, Shawn.
**Oberth**: However you decide to judge another, know that you are condemning yourself to judgement in turn.
**Oberth**: Dare to admit that?
**Shawn**: ...
*Shawn turns his back*
**Shawn**: Don't follow me.
**Oberth**: (Roll his eyes) I told you. It's you who always bring me along.
**Oberth**: You could get rid of me anytime you want.
**Oberth**: (Smirk) But you need me.
**Oberth**: (Smirk fades) Especially when you face Brian...
*Shawn runs away*
*Scene - A quiet restaurant*
*Brian*
*Brian and Shawn sit at a table eating dinner*
**Brian**: One thing at a time.
**Shawn**: ...
**Brian**: I met your teacher today.
**Brian**: You broke your classmate's front tooth?
**Shawn**: Front tooth? I don't remember...
**Shawn**: It might not be me.
**Oberth**: I did it.
*Oberth walks up to their table*
**Shawn**: Oberth said that he did it.
**Brian**: ...
*Brian glances at Shawn's hand and then scans his other wounds.*
**Oberth**: Oh wow.
**Oberth**: He still cares about you even if you broke someone's teeth...
**Oberth**: He's concerned whether your hand was hurt.
**Brian**: The counseling session that I arranged for you... You never went back?
**Shawn**: The doctor couldn't see Oberth. He wouldn't believe me.
**Oberth**: Those who can't hear the music think the dancers are insane...
**Brian**: ...
**Brian**: Next week, I'll take another day off.
**Brian**: I will take you to the doctor again.
**Shawn**: Okay.
**Oberth**: (Gloating) There is no escaping this time, Shawn.
**Shawn**: Papa, the teacher talked to me too.
**Shawn**: You asked him about withdrawing me from school?
**Brian**: Yes, I've been meaning to tell you about that someday.
**Shawn**: Every time you want to talk to me...
**Shawn**: It's always about my future.
**Oberth**: Why wouldn't I?
**Oberth**: To a father, what's more important than his son's future?
**Oberth**: (Smirking) You wanna talk to him about things that only I could speak of?
**Shawn**: ...
**Shawn**: Papa...
**Shawn**: I can't get into the army nor go to practice. Now I can't even get into White Cape's academy...
**Shawn**: We have little in common now.
**Brian**: We don't see each other that much in school. We could always spend time at home.
**Shawn**: (Feigning calmness) You are right.
**Oberth**: (Sneering) How cunning, Captain Brian! He knows it's not now you are talking about.
**Oberth**: (Disdainful) And how much time do you have now?
**Oberth**: Three years?
**Oberth**: He promised that he would foster you until you turn 18.
**Oberth**: If you give up the idea of joining the Sword of Light...
**Oberth**: Then during these three years...
**Oberth**: He is the diligent captain in the White Cape and you merely a reserve soldier.
**Oberth**: And after work, all you do is have dinner and go to sleep.
**Oberth**: And after three years?
**Oberth**: You will have nothing in common: organizations, friends, missions, and things to talk about...
**Oberth**: Your paths will never cross again.
**Oberth**: Maybe you would only see him during holidays.
**Shawn**: ...
**Oberth**: Hey, Shawn.
**Oberth**: (Challenging) This is your future. Now, do you still want to be a nice kid who always obeys him?
**Shawn**: ...
**Brian**: I want to hear your thoughts.
**Brian**: I will respect your decision if it's reasonable.
**Shawn**: (Shaking his head) I don't want anything, Papa. Whatever you say.
**Oberth**: (Roll his eyes) Humph! Hypocrite!
*Brian notices Shawn's weird expression. He decides to speak his mind after a moment of hesitation...*
**Brian**: I don't want you to have regrets.
**Brian**: You are still too young...
**Brian**: You can't tell the difference between free will and imprinting.
**Brian**: You want to follow me all your life...
**Brian**: That's no reason to keep you in the White Cape.
**Shawn**: But I like it here. I am loyal to the White Cape and to you!
**Brian**: You will change. I was the same at your age.
**Brian**: The next few years in your life will determine who you will be.
**Brian**: I wish to offer you with more choices.
**Shawn**: ...
**Oberth**: He's lying!!!
**Oberth**: He's guilty. And upset.
**Oberth**: Your family died because of him and yet you still see him as your savior!
**Oberth**: He raised you up in a wolf's den, and he couldn't even tell you the truth!
**Oberth**: Why don't you get to the bottom of it, despite whatever it might happen?
**Shawn**: ...
**Oberth**: You coward! Get lost! Let me speak to him!
*Oberth walks towards Brian*
**Brian**: (Concerned) You're sweating. Are you feeling unwell?
**Shawn (Oberth)**: (Yawning and lounging) I feel comfortable enough...
**Shawn (Oberth)**: My dearest Captain Brian...
**Brian**: !!!
**Shawn (Oberth)**: You pulled some strings to make me drop out of the boys' brigade...
**Shawn (Oberth)**: You call that respecting my decision?
**Shawn (Oberth)**: Are you making decisions for me? Or just abandoning me?
**Brian**: ...
**Shawn (Oberth)**: You told me that you were the only one I could count on.
**Brian**: (Frowning) That's not what I meant.
**Brian**: Some roads are dead ends. You don't have to follow me.
**Shawn (Oberth)**: Liar!!!
**Shawn (Oberth)**: It must be easier for you to go without me.
**Brian**: ...
**Brian**: You are my son.
**Brian**: Because of love, I was tough on you when you were little.
**Brian**: Now, because of love, I want you to go your own way.
**Brian**: You know that's best for you.
**Shawn (Oberth)**: Don't bring our relationship into this!
**Shawn (Oberth)**: Just you and me.
**Brian**: It's impossible.
*Brian suddenly pounds on the table*
*Shawn is startled, but he couldn't help worrying about Papa's hand. It must be numb and swollen.*
*But Shawn decides to keep his silence. He wonders what else Oberth would say...*
**Shawn (Oberth)**: Aren't you a bit too harsh on me?
**Brian**: No one could influence my emotions so easily, except for you.
**Shawn (Oberth)**: Well, then I must have done it on purpose.
**Shawn (Oberth)**: On purpose? You've been meaning to do so!
**Shawn (Oberth)**: That way I could see whether I am important to you.
**Brian**: (Suppressing his anger) You've been so full of crap lately.
**Brian**: Wipe your tears.
**Shawn (Oberth)**: I am not crying!
**Shawn (Oberth)**: Those are Shawn's tears! Not mine!
**Shawn (Oberth)**: Crying is for kids!
**Shawn (Oberth)**: So, I stopped being a kid.
**Shawn (Oberth)**: Papa doesn't know, right?
**Shawn (Oberth)**: I am all grown up now.
**Shawn (Oberth)**: I was only 5 when you brought me back...
**Shawn (Oberth)**: (Taking a deep breath) Now, I will be 15 in a few months...
**Shawn (Oberth)**: Don't you understand?
**Brian**: You should have grown up like a normal kid.
**Shawn (Oberth)**: Then, what is a normal kid like?
**Shawn (Oberth)**: Have you ever taught me... (sobbing) how to be a normal kid?
*Brian finds himself struck silent by Shawn's question.*
**Shawn (Oberth)**: Forget it. It's better than making excuse.
**Shawn (Oberth)**: Your silence speaks volumes.
**Shawn (Oberth)**: You face already told me everything.
**Brian**: Sorry, I failed to teach you well.
**Shawn (Oberth)**: Remember what I said? My dearest Captain Brian is facing his regrets again.
**Shawn (Oberth)**: Like any other parent who realize their poor education has led to their teenagers becoming troubled...
**Shawn (Oberth)**: His regrets are exactly the same.
*Brian sighs, and the courage Shawn has summoned up earlier is now lost.*
*Shawn takes his voice back from Oberth...*
**Shawn**: Papa...
**Shawn**: You always say that I have another possibility in life.
**Shawn**: I feel guilty...
**Shawn**: Am I taking up your time?
**Shawn**: Your time to explore another possibility for your life?
**Shawn**: It's weird...
**Shawn**: Sometimes you upset me too, Papa.
**Shawn**: When you are too busy with work...
**Shawn**: When you make a mess in the bathroom...
**Shawn**: When you scold me for my homework...
**Shawn**: When you are oblivious to my sickness...
**Shawn**: At such moments, I don't much like you either...
**Shawn**: But I've never thought of the possibility of leaving you, not even once.
**Shawn**: Is it force of habit?
**Shawn**: We've become used to each other.
**Shawn**: And since we got so used to each other, we remain bonded.
**Shawn**: But...
**Shawn**: Unlike fathers and sons who are bonded by blood...
**Shawn**: You and I do not share that bond.
**Shawn**: You might as well say there's no future for us.
**Shawn**: I refuse to move on... maybe it's because I know now is what we have.
**Shawn**: I am not afraid of you abandoning me.
**Shawn**: I just don't believe that we could have a future!
**Shawn**: The light I need...
**Shawn**: Is far from enough.
**Shawn**: If you could not light up my world...
**Shawn**: Then I'd rather you had never been in my life.
**Shawn**: It's a miracle for me to be your son.
**Shawn**: Just this once. I want to keep you as long as I can...
*Shawn runs away, leaving Brian at the table*
*Scene - Outside the restaurant*
**Oberth**: Humph. That's some progress.
**Shawn**: I didn't leave because I was mad!
**Shawn**: I just feel sorry for Papa.
**Shawn**: But what fault did he have?
**Shawn**: He is being loved by the two of us who are not supposed to love him.
**Oberth**: Alright. You are officially admitting that you've crossed your boundary, instead of blaming me.
**Shawn**: ...
**Oberth**: Shawn.
**Oberth**: If you are his favorite person and he brought you up himself...
**Oberth**: Then why don't you take one more step and overcome...
**Shawn**: (Interrupt) Oberth.
**Shawn**: (Shake his head) I tried. Together with you...
**Shawn**: And now, I couldn't even go back to things before.
**Shawn**: He tried to make peace, but it was ruined by your greediness.
**Oberth**: It's your greed too.
**Oberth**: 'Devil whispers into your ears. And the devil is yourself.'
**Shawn**: Oberth, ever since you came into my life...
**Shawn**: I started to hate myself, not you.
**Shawn**: I hate that pitiful part of me who clings to Papa and suffocates him.
**Oberth**: It's me whom you hate. The most authentic and darkest side of you.
**Shawn**: You still remember...
**Shawn**: When was the last time Papa gave me a hug?
**Oberth**: I wouldn't know. It must be before I came along.
**Shawn**: Since when Dad and I became like this?
**Shawn**: He is no longer the father I trusted with my life.
**Shawn**: And I am no longer the son he could relax around.
**Shawn**: Since when...
**Shawn**: Our relationship took such a bad turn?
**Shawn**: Did it begin when I felt jealous of Osmond?
**Oberth**: (Shaking his head) You were awake the moment you saw what really happened.
**Shawn**: (Speechless) ...
**Shawn**: When I came back from that horrible nightmare ten years ago, if I had gone to Papa with tears...
**Shawn**: If I had accused him of all the sins...
**Shawn**: I would have had the chance to ask him to be responsible for my life, right?
**Shawn**: He would have agreed!
**Shawn**: But that would be despicable!
**Oberth**: ... So, you said nothing and pretended to know nothing.
**Oberth**: You didn't want to expose his lie and face the cruel reality.
**Shawn**: ... You are right.
**Shawn**: Papa and I both know that. We just don't want to say it out loud.
**Shawn**: Osmond said that Papa and I were very alike.
**Shawn**: Not only because our demeanors are perfectly in sync.
**Shawn**: But also...
**Shawn**: We both have an infinite desire for maintaining a peaceful façade.
**Oberth**: Even if it's all fake?
**Shawn**: Even if it's all fake.
**Oberth**: (Contempt)... You are hopeless.
**Shawn**: Well, will you let me go now?
**Oberth**: (Tough) Of course not!
**Oberth**: If you beg me to disappear, instead of demanding me...
**Oberth**: Then I have a right to say no.
**Oberth**: I might still fight you!
**Shawn**: ...
**Oberth**: Hey, Shawn.
**Oberth**: (Sneering) I know you. Your will to kill me is not strong enough...
**Oberth**: So...
**Oberth**: Listen. I need to take you to someone...
**Shawn**: ...
**Shawn**: I know you too.
**Shawn**: I know who you are talking about.
*Scene - A quiet courtyard*
*Osmond*
*Osmond uses Feather Aegis to heal Shawn*
**Shawn**: ...
**Shawn**: Thank you.
**Shawn**: No matter how badly I get injured...
**Shawn**: You can heal every wound.
**Shawn**: When the teacher sends for the parents...
**Shawn**: Everybody will just assume I beat them up.
**Osmond**: (Joking) Then your Papa would have a lot of apologizing to do.
**Shawn**: Papa feels comfortable around you.
**Osmond**: If he doesn't clean up your mess...
**Osmond**: You've already made so many mistakes.
**Shawn**: I don't want him to take responsibilities for me.
**Osmond**: (Shake his head) That's his obligation.
**Shawn**: Another father-to-son obligation?
**Osmond**: (Nodding) ...
**Shawn**: Osmond, you think Papa likes me?
**Osmond**: He surely does.
**Shawn**: But it's not the kind of love I have in mind.
**Shawn**: You think he loves me as a father to his child.
**Shawn**: But Papa and I are not exactly a family.
**Shawn**: It's nothing like a normal one.
**Shawn**: We don't have that flawed but inseparable bond of blood.
**Shawn**: What we have is a relationship that needs to be maintained.
**Shawn**: We are father and son, yet we are not.
**Shawn**: We are family, yet we are not.
**Shawn**: We want to be close, but we dare not get closer.
**Shawn**: While feeling happy, a sense of guilt looms over us.
**Shawn**: 'Nightmares will recur. Lies will be exposed.' That's the inscription on my family ring.
**Shawn**: When I finally discovered that I was the owner of the ring...
**Shawn**: I saw the secret Papa had been keeping from me.
**Shawn**: I always wonder what my family would think of me, if they knew I call our enemy father.
**Osmond**: ...
**Shawn**: Every time Oberth tries to awaken me, I feign ignorance...
**Shawn**: I have no desire to seek revenge; nor do I have any ambitions of my own.
**Shawn**: I choose to be Papa's tool willingly.
**Shawn**: But Papa is still wallowing in self-torture...
**Shawn**: Every time I excel in the White Cape, he wants to send me away out of guilt.
**Shawn**: Like that, Papa and I will always be at odds with each other.
**Osmond**: ...
**Shawn**: Osmond...
**Shawn**: You are so kind. You will answer my question, right?
**Osmond**: What is it?
**Shawn**: The rumor about you and Papa... Is that true?
**Osmond**: (Blushing) What? You too?
**Shawn**: I asked Papa the same question.
**Shawn**: Papa said it was between you and him. He told me to stay out of it.
**Osmond**: You believed?
**Shawn**: Which one?
**Shawn**: Papa or the rumor?
**Osmond**: ...
**Osmond**: Do you mind?
**Shawn**: Mind what?
**Shawn**: The rumor, or you?
**Osmond**: ...
**Shawn**: Tell me it's not true.
**Shawn**: Then I will tear down the rumor mill.
**Shawn**: Anyone who spreads this rumor in the White Cape again...
**Shawn**: Will be smashed to pieces!
**Shawn**: But if you say 'yeah, what they say is true',
**Shawn**: I... I might be able to accept it, unlike before.
**Osmond**: ...
**Shawn**: I remember a dream I had when I was little.
**Shawn**: I was running and running until I saw two figures.
**Shawn**: You and Dad were standing side by side, very much like a couple.
**Shawn**: I called out to Papa.
**Shawn**: Then both of you turned.
**Shawn**: I woke up really pissed.
**Shawn**: Now that I come to think of it, that pain has long dissipated.
**Shawn**: I wanted to grow up so badly. I wanted Papa to treat me as his equal, like he to you...
**Shawn**: But I didn't want him to use that as an excuse to find me a stepdad.
**Osmond**: ...
**Shawn**: You have always been kind to me.
**Shawn**: Sometimes, I wonder...
**Shawn**: We were close at first.
**Shawn**: Even closer than when we were with Papa.
**Shawn**: But then everything changed.
**Shawn**: Papa put us on different scales and our relationship soured.
**Shawn**: I used to be jealous of you because you are special to Papa.
**Shawn**: You understand every word he says.
**Shawn**: It feels natural even when you don't say a word.
**Osmond**: ...
**Shawn**: Sometimes, love makes one breathless and even suffocating.
**Shawn**: But sometimes, love could put one at ease.
**Shawn**: To meet a person who makes you feel comfortable...
**Shawn**: And to stay with him forever...
**Shawn**: How lucky and rare would that be?
**Shawn**: No one would pass up that chance, right?
**Shawn**: But I only figured it out till now.
**Osmond**: ...
**Shawn**: For Papa...
**Shawn**: Your love is comforting, and mine binding.
**Shawn**: Ever since I put on the ring and summoned the character of Truth - Oberth...
**Shawn**: Papa became confused.
**Shawn**: He found it impossible to return that passionate love to the other me.
**Shawn**: I was ashamed too.
**Shawn**: Every time Papa sighed...
**Shawn**: I felt as frustrated as he did.
**Shawn**: (Pausing and then speaking with courage) Although...
**Shawn**: (Filled with tears) I still love him. But I want to start over now.
**Shawn**: It's not hard to start over.
**Shawn**: All I need to do is to draw an invisible line in my heart.
**Shawn**: I remind myself daily that I must never take what does not belong to me.
**Shawn**: So that I will not lose them again.
**Osmond**: It must have been a hard decision for you to make.
**Shawn**: (Nodding) ...
**Shawn**: You used to warn me that 'one must think before he acts.'
**Shawn**: I thought you were right.
**Shawn**: But lately I find that statement is so wrong.
**Shawn**: There is no right or wrong in a decision.
**Shawn**: I just don't have enough courage to bear the consequences.
**Shawn**: I only realized it after I made the decision.
**Shawn**: I preferred the other path.
**Shawn**: Although it might not be the best...
**Shawn**: At least it was mine.
**Osmond**: ...
**Oberth**: (Dispirited)...
*Osmond disappears and in his place appears Oberth*
**Oberth**: I lost, Shawn.
*Scene - Next to a fountain*
*Shawn*
*Shawn stares at the fountain, Oberth behind him*
**Shawn**: Sorry...
**Shawn**: I won't 'wear' you anymore.
**Shawn**: I decide to send you away.
**Shawn**: I used to block your voices.
**Shawn**: But every word you said is true.
**Shawn**: I do have regrets...
**Shawn**: If I had another chance...
**Shawn**: I would choose to grow up sooner.
**Shawn**: I would not allow myself to be pampered by Papa.
**Shawn**: If you miss the chance to grow up, you will end up being a kid all your life.
**Shawn**: I have tasted all the sweetness of being a kid.
**Shawn**: But as to the bitterness, I think that's only the beginning.
**Oberth**: Stop playing the victim. You've always been surrounded by love.
**Oberth**: Don't you know how special you are in the eyes of Brian?
**Oberth**: That's why you are always so assertive.
**Oberth**: Other kids are in awe of Brian, while you don't have to mind that.
**Oberth**: Before I told you about my feelings...
**Oberth**: You hadn't even realized you were being loved.
**Oberth**: But when you did, it was a disaster!
**Oberth**: You just kept drowning in Brian's love.
**Oberth**: I'll take you to see the missing piece of your childhood memory...
**Oberth**: Me, who is part of you and always tells the truth...
**Oberth**: Even your rival, aka your future stepdad, couldn't get on your nerves anymore.
**Oberth**: You are so stubborn and lame.
**Oberth**: But I got to admit, you won.
**Oberth**: 'If truth makes you uncomfortable, you start to lie to yourself.'
**Oberth**: Haha, humans...
*Shawn takes off his ring and throws it into the fountain. Oberth falls to the ground.*
**Oberth**: Goodbye, Shawn.
**Oberth**: You are unworthy of me.
**Oberth**: That's not what I want to say to you. I AM you. This is what you want to say to yourself.
**Oberth**: You run from your destiny, from the truth, from yourself.
**Oberth**: Your family is ashamed of you.
*Oberth slowly dissipates into nothing*
*Scene - A restaurant*
*...*
*When you are finished with the journal, the owner still hasn't shown up.*
*Deep into thoughts...*
*Scene - Fade to black*

**-Choice A - Bury the journal as well as its secrets.**

*It slowly occurs to you this is the best place for secrets...*
*Go to Part 2*

**-Choice B - Give the journal to Brian.**

*After Brian takes the journal, he remains silent for a long time. Then he thanks you without further words.*
*Go to Part 2*

**-Choice C - Give the journal to Shawn.**

*Shawn looks at you with his innocent eyes and denies that the journal belongs to him. But he thanks you and takes it anyway.*
*He is on his way to send a letter and a gift to Daley. But he turns around and asks you a question...*
**Shawn**: Player, do you know how to politely reject someone's love without hurting their feelings?
**Player**: ...
*Scene - The past, at a pool*
*Shawn remembers what happened in Elysiann.*
**Shawn**: Daley, why don't you ask Shirou to go with you?
**Shawn**: You guys are glued together.
**Daley**: (Pursing his lip) It's about time you learned how to swim...
**Daley**: What if you fall into river again and no one is around to save you?
**Shawn**: (Scratch his head) Ah.
*Daley leaps into the pool and gestures Shawn to join him.*
*Shawn dives in and makes some splashes.*
**Shawn**: Daley, have you ever seen someone learn how to swim in a bathhouse?
**Daley**: (Unreasonable) You are here.
**Shawn**: Ha-ha! Ouch (his wound hurts after laughing too hard) O-okay, you got me.
**Daley**: Ah... Your wound is not fully healed yet.
**Daley**: (Purse his lips) Still hurt?
**Shawn**: Yeah.
**Daley**: Then stop laughing so hard.
**Shawn**: I am laughing at myself. I am probably the first wounded person who learned how to swim in a bathhouse.
**Daley**: Hm... Sorry.
**Shawn**: Daley, I am fine. I was joking. It's healed long ago.
**Daley**: I forgot that you are wounded. I shouldn't have dragged you to practice holding your breath with me.
**Shawn**: Breath-holding? Why would you want to learn that?
*Daley's face, now red from the sauna heat, looks immensely innocent.*
**Daley**: Shawn, I told you that Shirou is like air to me, right?
**Daley**: So, I must learn how to hold my breath now.
*After that, Daley takes a deep breath and dives into the water.*
*Shawn watches the floating bubbles dissipate and releases a sigh into the steaming water.*
**Shawn**: Daley, you can't hold your breath forever.
*After a long period of time, Daley is still immersed in water.*
*Pressing on the wound, Shawn scoops Daley out of the water.*
**Daley**: (Coughing, sniffing and then howlng suddenly) Shawn!!
**Shawn**: I'm right here, Daley...
**Daley**: (Continual howling) It's so hard for me!!
**Daley**: I can't live without air. But I don't want to give up on you...
**Shawn**: Daley, I don't understand what you are saying, but...
**Shawn**: Air is more important, isn't it?
**Daley**: ... Huh?
**Daley**: (Act unlike himself) Ha-ha... You... You're right.
**Shawn**: ...
*Daley rubs his eyes so hard to stop his tears from falling and pastes on a happy face.*
**Daley**: Shawn.
**Daley**: I don't want to be your senior. Let's just be pals. Like Shirou and me!
**Shawn**: Huh?
**Shawn**: What are you talking about?
**Daley**: (Purse his lips) Actually, you don't see me as your senior at all, right?
**Shawn**: Yeah, I do.
**Shawn**: But why did you ask me that, Daley?
**Daley**: Em...
**Daley**: (Look away) I don't want to be your senior. It's so hard for me.
**Shawn**: ...
**Daley**: (Frustrated sigh) I bared my soul to you and you still don't understand. You are such a fool, Shawn!
**Shawn**: (Embarrassed and torn) Daley... I am really a fool. But could you teach me how to swim now?
*Scene ends*

**-Choice D - Give the journal to a shrink as a patient's confessions.**

*The shrink thinks it's just fiction. But he subtly suggests you do an assessment of your mental status there.*
**Player**: !!!
*Scene ends*

**-Choice E - Treat it as a piece of fiction and write an ending for it.**

**Player**: What ending will you give to the story?
*Scene ends*

**-Part 2**

*Scene - Outside Shawn's window*
*Sleepless, Shawn stares at his naked finger under the moonlight.*
*It's only been a few days, he thinks. But he is now used to the absence of the ring he wore for ten years.*
*Habits are not to be trusted.*
*Soon new habits will replace old ones.*
*A life bound by habits would be pathetic.*
*After reading the interrogation notes in the living room, Brian tiptoes into the bedroom.*
*Shawn sits on the bed, staring at the bedroom door. He's been like this for quite a while.*
*Brian raises his head and looks right into Shawn's glowing eyes, despite the darkness.*
**Shawn**: Papa...
**Brian**: What happened?
**Shawn**: I couldn't find you. I was worried.
*Brian stays silent for a moment.*
**Brian**: I was in the living room. Why didn't you check?
*Shawn finds tears welling up in his eyes.*
**Shawn**: I was afraid...
**Shawn**: That I couldn't even find you there.
*Shawn's tears fall heavily onto his blanket, a sound so loud in the silence of night.*
*Brian walks up to Shawn's bedside and pats his head covered with smooth hair.*
*Remembering his age, Shawn could no longer put his head against Papa's chest. Yet he doesn't want to draw back either. He just stays there.*
*Along with his tears, something on his mind gradually melts and fades away...*
*Brian slowly moves his hand away. Shawn lies down and tugs his blanket around him. Brian goes back to his bed.*
*After a lengthy silence, Brian finally speaks after a sigh.*
**Brian**: ...
**Brian**: Did you lose that ring on purpose?
**Shawn**: ...
**Shawn**: Yeah.
**Brian**: ...
**Brian**: Your grandfather gave it to you. Now I found it.
**Shawn**: ...
**Shawn**: But I don't need it. Can you keep it for me?
**Brian**: ...
**Shawn**: Sorry...
**Shawn**: I am sorry for making you uncomfortable.
**Shawn**: I won't say those things again.
**Shawn**: I promise.
**Brian**: ...
**Brian**: Go to sleep now.
**Shawn**: ...
**Shawn**: Ok.
*Scene ends*

## Audio

*Note: Skins will use the audio from the basic skin unless indicated otherwise.*

### Shawn's Basic Skin

* **Butler Interactions**
	+ Before Intimacy Level 7
		- **Head**: *\*laughs\* I never had any friends before I met Daley and Shirou. In fact, I always thought I never needed friends...*
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		- **Torso**: *Will you go with me to Osmond's place? If he asks about my wound, help me tell a lie.*
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		- **Waist**: *Not all Gyees are bad, and not all normal people are good. There's good and bad people everywhere. I only believe what I see with my own eyes.*
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	+ After reaching Intimacy Level 7
		- **Head**: *\*laughs\* As long as Dad doesn't dislike you, I'll like you. Ahem! But if Dad likes you, I won't.*
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		- **Torso**:  *I'm okay. I'm used to it. I don't even know what pain is anymore.*
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		- **Waist**: *You can never earn the approval of people that don't like you. All you can do is earn their jealousy.*
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* **Skills**
	+ **Basic**: *Sword of light!*
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	+ **Advanced**: *You're not getting away from me!*
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	+ **Ultimate**: *Dragon Sun SLASH!*
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* **Arrival**: *The light of the heavens will burn through the darkness.*
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* **Display Voice 1**: *Growing up. Death. It all happens in a blink of an eye.*
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* **Display Voice 2**: *Home is wherever Dad is.*
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* **Display Voice 3**: *I might take a beating, but I'll give one back, too.*
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* **Hit**: *Ugh!*
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* **Dying**: *We will meet again... Grandfather.*
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