TL;CR MEME

[retellers]

1. Comment with your character.
2. Receive comments from others.
3. Reply to their comments with long ballads and explanations of your characters' relationship throughout the game.
4. Suffer as we have suffered over your CR.

Comments

[antaressnipe]

A BITCH ALMOST FORGOT but that's okay, I'm running at u now--

Ironically, Sora was perhaps one of the few people here where Chiron felt like an actual legend of lore, specifically because Sora was trained by a version of himself and is friends with Hercules. Obviously it's not Chiron's Hercules, just like Sora didn't actually interact with the "true" Greek Gods (and the fact that I had to compare Chiron and Phil at all... cursed sentences that will never be repeated--), but it still tickled Chiron in a way that was never quite replicated anywhere else. In the Realm, hiding his True Name was never necessary because so many people either didn't know much about Greek mythology, or were too busy pointing at him and going "well he's dad/teacher-shaped so we can forgive the horse part."

This isn't to say that any of this made a difference to Sora, he made it pretty clear he's not taken aback by most things, but it did set a tone for Chiron and meant he was just always quietly amused when talking to the teen.

But that aside, Sora was always a very interesting mix of well-travelled and optimistically pragmatic to Chiron, and it's why as the game progressed, Chiron was more or less fine with leaving Sora to his own devices. He really did see the game as divided into ... I don't want to say "factions", necessarily, but characters who were close to one another, who were spreading information to the others, and as long as that information was relevant and true, Chiron would not interfere. Soo-Won was one such leader in Chiron's eyes, and another was Sora. It's why when Chiron decided "yeah guess I'll die", he went and told Sora; whether or not Sora had a Role was irrelevant at that point, Chiron just knew that Sora would get that information to people who needed it the most, based on nothing but what he'd observed thus far.

The fact that Sora also helped to convince Chiron to return to the village after the leopard incident is another reason why Chiron offered him a great deal of trust, despite the fact the didn't talk all the time. Sora showed he was capable in high-stress situations, and yeah, Chiron was a bit scary when he was off his shits, but the teen still out-muled him in the end and called Chiron out on his own hypocrisies. We joked about Sora being Chiron's grandson because Lup is Sora's mom and Chiron is Lup's Dad, but in some ways, that is a good descriptor of it -- he didn't necessarily view him as close family, but when they were in each other's peripheral, Chiron just felt extremely fond towards him and always hoped he was doing well, and also that people were looking out for him. (And that Lup was so close to Sora? That gave Chiron a lot of comfort both ways, that those two in particular had each other to lean on. That's a biiiiiig reason why whenever something was wrong with Lup, Chiron was like "GO. LOOK AFTER. YOUR MOTHER.")

So upon finding out Sora really did have a role in the end, Chiron's reaction was very much "Oh I was correct to put so much trust in him u_u" like some ancient grandpa nodding in approval at his grandson's test score. Sora is just such a Good Kid and he wishes him all the best.