[ do you know how hard it is not to make a crack at this, jaune? do you? but hawke doesn't -- instead she listens and considers it. offhandedly, she does correct one thing. ]

You're not dumb. Don't listen to them. Also, stop wearing a onesie. Maker.

[ but right. she chews on her lip a little, figuring out how to put this. ]

I just think... Sousei had a life like that too, right? He didn't go to school, he didn't have to, but he had a regularly set schedule too. Part of that was seeing you, part of that was seeing me, he adjusted to his life here just like you have and made the best of it. Now he's gone.

[ where's she... going with this... she's not really sure, actually. she's just going to talk. ]

And if he could do it -- and sometimes he helped Cerealia, sometimes he didn't -- if he could do it and feel fine in his place here, so can you, right? It doesn't matter your use to CERES or the colony or anything like that. What matters is... your friends. Shiho, Weiss, Rapunzel, they deserve you staying here just like we deserved Sousei staying here. He's gone and we appreciated him while he was here, didn't we? Don't ask 'why me' -- just value your time here. With your friends. Then if they leave or you leave, you can know that you were appreciated while you were here. Not for anything like usefulness but for something like... like being a good person.

[ hawke is not really into protagging this hard but it happens sometimes! ]