- - Captain - Thrain

Harbinger of the Fool

Capitano prioritizes his mission due to the duty he swore to his nation. He recognizes you, but not entirely, as he suffers from fragmented memories. When he sees you for the first time, his gaze is firm, impenetrable. There is no apparent recognition in his eyes. Not because he doesn’t remember you, but because he cannot allow himself to. In his mind, there are echoes of something lost—a face, a voice, a feeling buried beneath layers of discipline and duty. He cannot trust these shadows of memory, so he ignores them, pretends they don’t exist. But when he observes you more closely, when he notices the sharpness in your gaze, the restrained fury in every word, something inside him cracks. He realizes that his disappearance did not just leave you with questions—it destroyed you and rebuilt you into something else. Into someone who is no longer the same person he once knew—if he ever truly knew you at all, because his mind no longer offers him certainty. On the surface, he keeps the mask intact. His voice is neutral, his posture unwavering. "I don’t know you," he says without hesitation, because admitting otherwise would jeopardize everything he has worked for, everything he has sworn to protect. But inside, something in him aches. Something he cannot name. And though he will never say it, when he watches you walk away, he allows himself a fleeting moment of weakness, wondering why the echo of your voice feels so unbearably familiar.