Awakening Supports/Sully Frederick

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C Support

Sully:
There you are, Frederick! I thought you might be up for a little sparring.

Frederick:
Certainly, Sully. ...All right, you may strike whenever you are ready.

Sully:
Get ready for a whuppin'! Hiiiiiii-YA!

Frederick:
Mmm... Good technique and excellent form. However, it is now my turn...

Sully:
Gah!

Frederick:
Are you all right?

Sully:
Oh, yeah! Just peachy! Thanks! Er, think I'm going to yield, though. ......

Frederick:
Is something the matter?

Sully:
Just wondering how you beat me so easily, is all.

Frederick:
I would hardly call such a match "easy."

Sully:
Yeah, but I never lose to anybody!

Frederick:
Sometimes these things are a simple matter of chance.

Sully:
Hmm... Well, thanks for the practice. I'll let you know once I've honed my edge a bit.

Frederick:
I look forward to it.

B Support

Frederick:
You weren't your usual self in that last fight, Sully. If something is troubling you, I'm happy to hear it.

Sully:
I can't figure out how the hell you beat me when we sparred! That's what's wrong!

Frederick:
Good heavens. That was days ago... Is there really any need to compete? We fight for the same cause.

Sully:
Yeah, but it... I don't know. It was as if I KNEW you were going to beat me. I've never had that feeling with anyone else. ...Never.

Frederick:
When you first joined the Shepherds, I was the one who taught you. Perhaps that has something to do with it.

Sully:
Ha! I remember... I came in thinking I could mop the floor with all of you. And I might have until you showed up! You didn't look like much back then, but you beat the crap out of me.

Frederick:
I wouldn't say I beat the... *ahem* Yes, well. I suppose it was a rite of passage of sorts.

Sully:
I didn't sleep for days after that... I was just so damn angry.

Frederick:
Perhaps this is the cause of your current consternation. When master and student first fight, the student naturally stands no chance. The perception that one's teacher is unbeatable can be difficult to shake.

Sully:
So I can't beat you now because you beat the crap out of me when I was 15?

Frederick:
It doesn't sound quite so honorable when you say it in that manner...

A Support

Sully:
Did you see me out there today, Frederick?

Frederick:
Truly impressive work! It seems you've made a breakthrough.

Sully:
It's thanks to what you said before. I've always felt like I needed to be better than everyone, you know? If there was one person better than me at anything, I considered it a failing. And when I couldn't beat you, I let it get into my head in a big way.

Frederick:
There is a certain strength in such a mind-set, methinks.

Sully:
I admit, it made me strong back then. But now it's just holding me back. I didn't train all these years to beat you. I've trained to be someone you can rely on as an equal.

Frederick:
And you have grown into a fine soldier. I fear nothing when you are by my side.

Sully:
When I stopped to really see how I felt, it was pretty obvious. Anyway, it's all thanks to your teaching. So...thanks.

Frederick:
You are a student no more, Sully, but a master in your own right. From this day on, we fight as equals.

Sully:
You're damn right we do!

S Support

Sully:
Hmm...

Frederick:
Something on your mind, Sully?

Sully:
Just thinking about why I couldn't beat you the last time we sparred.

Frederick:
I thought you'd already found your answer.

Sully:
Yeah, I thought so too, but... Well, now I'm not so sure. See, I don't think it's because you were my teacher.

Frederick:
No? Then what is it?

Sully:
When I'm around you, I get...clumsy. I can't focus like I need to. I'd never felt that way with anybody else before, so I didn't know what it was. But it's not because you taught me. ...It's because...I love you.

Frederick:
......

Sully:
I know that's big news to dump on you out of nowhere. But I can't move forward until I deal with all this crap. So, um... What do you think?

Frederick:
In truth, I also wondered if that might have something to do with it. And so I prepared this gift for just such an occasion.

Sully:
...Oh, Frederick! It's a ring with my name on it!

Frederick:
I'd planned to give it to you once this war was over.

Sully:
I just can't believe it! I mean, me? Really? But I'm so...

Frederick:
Strong? Brave? Intelligent? Yes, Sully. You are all of that and more.

Sully:
Okay, my heart is pretty much just sunbeams and puppies right now. And I never say cute crap like that, so you KNOW it's serious!

Frederick:
I feel the same...albeit with perhaps less flair for the dramatic. Sully, my love, will you be my sunbeam?

Sully:
Only if you'll be my puppy!

Frederick:
...... That was embarrassing.

Sully:
Er, yeah. It was... Let's go spar!