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The Ultimate Despair

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Terry Bogard my beloved 😍😍😍

You know I imagine though Jin never learned the details of Kazuya’s life and important bits of his genetic structure until it was far too late, Jun never pretended that Kazuya didn’t exist, and Jin was aware of his father having, well, existed.

Because sometimes Jun would give him a small, soft smile and tell him he was being just like his father, or while they were walking through the forest or he was helping her with tasks around the house Jun would- to fill the air- wax nostalgic about a calmer, more pleasant moment from her time with Kazuya.

Whenever he asked her questions about him straight out, though, that was when she would get vague. She never really answered him when he asked her how she and his father met, what his father did- the only one she ever answered clearly was why his father wasn’t with them. And she’d given him the answer you’d expect, that he’d died before Jin was born.

The only time she ever told Jin a straight lie about Kazuya, not a lie of omission or a half-truth, was when he asked how Kazuya had died- she’d told him she didn’t know as her mind replayed the scene of Heihachi boasting to her in detail how he reclaimed his throne, and telling her what a shame it was that she’d left before she could see it in person.

And when Jin came to Heihachi and asked him who his father was, Heihachi told him all he thought Jin needed to know- that his father was a colossal imbecile with more ambition than his meager power could back up. After Heihachi betrayed him and Jin struck out alone, he finally did his own research to learn the facts about Kazuya, but the facts didn’t satisfy him.

In the end, everything Jin had really wanted to know about his father he learned when he returned and they came to blows the moment they met in person.