[This is just making Momo want to ask a third party what the hell is going on more, but he has the decency not to say that here. He might ask a certain puca if they cross paths again anytime soon, since he figures he'd probably know what the beef is, and Momo can be pretty nosy when it comes to the personal issues of people he's struck up a friendship with.
Xichen's explanation does give the whole thing a bit more context, though, which helps. While the rules and such have been mentioned to Momo before, the depth of what turning away from them meant hadn't exactly been laid out in full, and it hadn't been initially obvious to him considering the differences in time period.]
I don't mind, though I dunno that he was that rude to me anyway. [Momo would...probably care less if the issue was someone being rude to him, honestly, considering his garbage self-worth.] I can see why it'd be a hard thing to see you do, but...well, if you feel like you need a new perspective and more knowledge of the world before you can uphold those rules, isn't that just a different way of valuing it? No rules can be upheld forever in the same way. Things change, and traditions shifting with it, or the way you honour them shifting with it, isn't anything to be ashamed of.
[Though from how it's described, Momo would consider it less of a betrayal and more of a temporary change of perspective. If it's for the sake of better honouring them, he doesn't feel like it should be treated as just walking away from them frivolously and forever.]
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Xichen's explanation does give the whole thing a bit more context, though, which helps. While the rules and such have been mentioned to Momo before, the depth of what turning away from them meant hadn't exactly been laid out in full, and it hadn't been initially obvious to him considering the differences in time period.]
I don't mind, though I dunno that he was that rude to me anyway. [Momo would...probably care less if the issue was someone being rude to him, honestly, considering his garbage self-worth.] I can see why it'd be a hard thing to see you do, but...well, if you feel like you need a new perspective and more knowledge of the world before you can uphold those rules, isn't that just a different way of valuing it? No rules can be upheld forever in the same way. Things change, and traditions shifting with it, or the way you honour them shifting with it, isn't anything to be ashamed of.
[Though from how it's described, Momo would consider it less of a betrayal and more of a temporary change of perspective. If it's for the sake of better honouring them, he doesn't feel like it should be treated as just walking away from them frivolously and forever.]