catchall post: hubert oswell

[lieutenant_lineface]

This is a catchall post for Hubert. Any threads specifically for him can go here!

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[ex_protegere334]

That can't have been very fun. When did you have time to play and see your friends then if you didn't have much free time? That sounds...lonely.

[lieutenant_lineface]

[At this, Hubert's hands freeze mid-braiding for a few moments as he attempts to come up with an acceptable (for him) answer.]

It wasn't so bad. It simply meant I had less to distract me.

[Ouch. That's cold, Oswell.]

[ex_protegere334]

It still sounds lonely. Keeping busy is good but you need to relax too! That's what Cheria and Asbel say. Like with gardening, it's something I can do with Asbel but it's also fun and relaxing. It's not his work as the lord of Lhant, so it gives him a break from it. It doesn't sound like you had something like that back at Strahta, Hubert.

[lieutenant_lineface]

I didn't, no. Mr. Oswell did not approve of much in the way of recreation; there was quite a bit for me to learn in order to be on the same footing as my Strahtan peers.

[And if all of that distracted him from his loneliness, or transformed his sadness and grief into bitterness and anger...well.]

[ex_protegere334]

He didn't approve? Why? I don't think there's anything wrong having fun with friends. [Because. How can there be anything wrong with spending time with those you love, friends or family? As important as Sophie gathers that studying is, surely that was also important as well, to relax sometimes?]

[lieutenant_lineface]

Mr. Oswell was -- is -- an extremely serious man who expected nothing short of excellence from me as his heir. He himself is a rather solitary man in general, aside from the socialization that's required of his work.

[Though that's probably as much Garrett being a loner by nature as it is Garrett being an unpleasant jerk.]

[ex_protegere334]

So he didn't have any friends? Outside of work? [That is almost hard for Sophie to imagine, given her instantly having been taken in by Asbel when she had woken up in the meadow. And how close they all were after all that time.]

[lieutenant_lineface]

Very few that I knew of.

[And while Hubert was granted access to many Oswell secrets that was denied to even someone like Raymond, such secrets didn't include Garrett's personal life. Hubert had never imagined those details would never be of anything more than perfunctory interest to him, yet recent revelations made him wonder...

But no point in dwelling on that now. He continues working on this second braid; he's almost done. After a few more moments, he ties it off and moves it over to the side.]