[Chosen one disease is not something Qrow is innocent of contributing to, if he's honest--he told Ruby about her eyes, after Beacon. But it's complicated, too--she inherited more than her mother's eyes, after all. Saving people has been in her blood since she was small. And Salem's people would've always come after her, eventually. Patch would never have been a good place to hide long-term.
Those thoughts are disrupted as Break brings the conversation back to Ironwood.]
Oh, you have no idea. And back then I actually thought of him as a friend.
[Uttering the word "Friend" comes with it that violent storm surge of emotions again -- the bitter sting of betrayal, an absolutely crushing sense of grief, a rage that was genuinely murderous at one point before being dulled by the passage of time. How well Qrow copes with his feelings at any given time varies, but the intensity at which he experiences them is always pretty consistent. Perhaps Break might be getting a bit of a firsthand look at why Qrow had spent so many years drowning them in alcohol.]
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Those thoughts are disrupted as Break brings the conversation back to Ironwood.]
Oh, you have no idea. And back then I actually thought of him as a friend.
[Uttering the word "Friend" comes with it that violent storm surge of emotions again -- the bitter sting of betrayal, an absolutely crushing sense of grief, a rage that was genuinely murderous at one point before being dulled by the passage of time. How well Qrow copes with his feelings at any given time varies, but the intensity at which he experiences them is always pretty consistent. Perhaps Break might be getting a bit of a firsthand look at why Qrow had spent so many years drowning them in alcohol.]