[Yu listens carefully, letting it all wash over him. It's funny: for all the extraordinary circumstances of it- magecraft, summoned heroes, ancient bloodlines... Waver's issues are oddly familiar to him. To any teenager. I want to prove myself special. I want to be worthwhile.

The rest just makes it 100% more complicated.]

I think... personally, that finding ourselves- either in the roles people want for us, or outside them, is the real bump in becoming adults. It does sounds stupid. And dangerous too. But ranking your worth by others is just asking for trouble in the long run.

It's not surprising, really, that you did something reckless.