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Just came back from the novel (I’m like…almost halfway through? but planning on taking a break ANYWAYS) plz guys keep in mind Sion is a very very unreliable narrator incredibly unreliable esp re: a lot of events in the first life and re: parvellone. you can kinda get a general sense of it already but sion was pretty isolated in his past life! some of that is parvellone’s fault yes but much of it was actually sion’s own doing as well which is why you’re not going to learn things like the international political situation or
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Or the fact that Parvellone motherfucking cut off his own damn left hand (the one with the stigma on it) and sent it in a box of salt to actual!Siennas as a last ditch effort to try and end the pointless bloodshed (it doesn’t work) OR THE FACT THAT HE REMEMBERS EVERYTHING
Also, more importantly poor Sion was actually right on the number about Parvellone’s affection towards him it was just needlessly complicated by God (shaking my fists here) and Parvellone’s position/duty as the Angel of Destruction. Basically Parvellone’s mindset is that he is a tool of God and his ultimate duty is awaken the true bearer of St. Zeon’s stigma (aka Sion) and the only way to do so…is to die. So that entire time, he tried (and failed, spectacularly) not to get too close to Sion because he’d just end up leaving him anyways. Except. Well, as Parvellone puts it, it’s much easier to get caught up in faith towards something tangible compared to something up in the air. At some point, rather than being God’s faithful tool…he just wanted to be Sion’s. And that was where everything went wrong.
Parvellone, in Sion’s memory is this figure who’s incapable of failure, or something close to it, but that couldn’t be further from the truth… he’s just a man who thought he could go against god’s will and in the end doomed himself and everyone around him for it, including the person he treasured the most. Just…so many things went wrong or didn’t work out.
But guess what!! He didn’t abandon Sion, he never thought about that. He knew he would die and so be it, but he just wanted Sion to be happy and he was going to set him up in the neighboring country with a little farm and everything. It was too late, but he came back for Sion. The Grand Temple collapsing? That was all him. Sion wasn’t crushed to death by a falling set of wings btw, Parvellone found him before he died from his injuries, they had their first and last kiss, and then Parvellone basically altered Sion’s memories so that he’d think that version of events things opened up with was real, before killing himself to try and save Sion by awakening his stigma.
Except that isn’t what happens, what happens is Parvellone wakes up to the moment he gained his own stigma after being poisoned, and he despairs, because why would Sion do this? And then there’s more despair waiting to come! Because when he manages to get to the south for “recuperation,” Sion isn’t there. And for the next 15~20 years (no idea how old they are, but they haven’t hit their thirties yet), Sion still hasn’t appeared! All the way up to the coronation, where Parvellone once again finds himself at the mercy of God’s whims.
Because, you see. The stigmas of St. Zeon never appear by themselves, and the one who holds the stigma of the Angel of Destruction can feel it when the true St. Zeon’s stigma is nearby.
Parvellone has known this entire time Sion woke up in Siennas’s body.