Has anyone noticed how carefully Rafayel’s card stories connect with one anoth… · @Aixin1027 · TwKit

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Has anyone noticed how carefully Rafayel’s card stories connect with one another with recurring details that continue to build on his experiences and deepen his character? Whenever Rafayel talks about his painful past, he tends to tell it from an outsider’s perspective, as if he’s telling someone else’s story while keeping himself hidden behind it. Callback the part from Nightly Stroll He started with, “A friend of mine...” not “I.” He placed all his past misery, the moment he fell in love, and the years of waiting onto this so-called friend, giving himself plenty of room to retreat if he needed to. The same thing happens in his latest card story. He begins by talking about how a teacher took him in and how he once got drunk and woke up with a terrible hangover. He initially refers to himself as “he,” recounting those helpless and miserable days as though they happened to someone else. But why does he always tell his stories this way? It’s actually a defense mechanism. He creates an emotional barrier between himself and his trauma. Those painful memories are simply too heavy, so heavy that even he struggles to face them directly. By telling his story in the third person perspective, it’s almost as if the person who suffered wasn’t him, but a complete stranger. This can also be seen in Sweet Overdrive card, It was only through the Wade that we learned Rafayel had suffered such serious injuries in the past. These are the pains he had never shown you. He doesn’t have to reopen his own wounds for someone else to see, nor does he have to admit, “I was truly miserable and helpless back then.” Same goes in the Anecdote, since he was young, when Charles sensed that Rafayel was different and tried to comfort him, but Rafayel quietly avoided him. It’s his way of protecting himself. 🧵 #Rafayel #RafayelNightlyStroll #LoveandDeepspace

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