She may not be Sethos, but her presence is able to calm down Cyno. Part of why young Cyno got so attached to Lisa was due to missing his lost friend and her having similar features to him. (this was thought of prior to the release of Cyno's SQ2 so an old hc haha)
Got struck with a hc that Cyno was close to Sethos prior to being taken away by the Akademiya and adopted by Cyrus. Young Cyno is still scared and internally wishes Sethos were here so everything could go back to normal. Enter Lisa Minci who also has brown hair and green eyes.
… His heart is too big. He is doomed to care no matter what, even if the ending is predetermined. So long as the sun rises, he too shall continue to believe in the inherent goodness of others, even if it dooms him.
… to live without end, watching as everyone he has and ever will care for and love cease to be. He alone remains and shall bear the eternal burden of remembering. You would think that he would break, and he honestly should have long ago. But his heart is too kind…
Thinking about a Jing Yuan who ended up with what his ancestors wanted: true immortality. The reason why he has lived for so long in spite of everything he has experienced is that he is immune to the effects of Mara. And so he has always been doomed from the start…
Idk I really love thinking about the potential family dynamics between Cyno, Cyrus and Lisa and how they interacted during their Akademiya years together ;-; There is a lot of past pains but at the end of the day they still care and rely on each other 5/5
(And perhaps, in a small part buried deep inside him, he simply wants to create a world where she will feel comfortable coming back to). 4/5
Cyno doesn’t know the exact cause for why Lisa left, but he knows it is in part because of scholars’ unchecked pursuit of wisdom that drove her away. He decides to join the Matra to help prevent this pilgrimage of knowledge going unchecked. 3/5
It’s the final nail in the coffin for her, seeing how Cyno had suffered because of the whims of people who should have cared for him. When she leaves, it causes Cyrus to reflect on his past and he ends up stepping down as a Sage. 2/5
Post Cyno SQ2 So what if one of the main reasons why Lisa left the Akademiya is because she found out exactly how Cyno came under the care of Cyrus? That even her trusted professor could willingly experiment on a child for the sake of pursuing “wisdom?” 1/5