[The way it's said, he can't help feeling bad. He's quiet for a few moments, thinking perhaps he ought to explain...or try, anyway]
Back home, I was always afraid. You were stronger than me from the start, and you kept threatening Terra and Aqua. And I think you already know the darkness has always scared me.
I've thought that, just maybe, things might've been different if I'd tried to understand you before. I can't really change that, but in this world, maybe I can make up for it a little.
[He can't really imagine how Roxas would feel if Sora treated him like a monster to shrink away from. Even though Vanitas didn't have an individual form back then, it's still rejection, and Ven thinks he understands that]
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Back home, I was always afraid. You were stronger than me from the start, and you kept threatening Terra and Aqua. And I think you already know the darkness has always scared me.
I've thought that, just maybe, things might've been different if I'd tried to understand you before. I can't really change that, but in this world, maybe I can make up for it a little.
[He can't really imagine how Roxas would feel if Sora treated him like a monster to shrink away from. Even though Vanitas didn't have an individual form back then, it's still rejection, and Ven thinks he understands that]