To be fair, you started the birthday thing. [The boys hadn't even considered trying to celebrate. That was a Rinoa tradition. Trying to learn how to be people. It's funny what happens when you have the time to step back and really try to get to know someone. More than just the mask they put out there for you to see. It's difficult for all of them, they've spent so much of their lives wearing a mask to appear a certain type of presentable. Rinoa included.

They ended up being pretty good for each other in the end.]

Yeah, well, she was you. Far as I can tell. Dunno how this time and space bullshit works exactly but I'm pretty sure you were you, even if you don't remember it.

[He just huffs an amused, rueful sound, and gestures faintly as if to say 'you're talking to the expert on bad action here.'

As if Seifer would have ever been capable of inaction back then. It sure did backfire horribly though didn't it?]