According to Silver, Idia always gets flustered around him: we see them interact in a vignette where Idia compliments Silver’s “totally protagonist dialogue”, saying that he wishes he could say similarly cool things.
Silver encourages him to do so but Idia explains, “It only works when you say it.”
Idia happens upon Silver sleeping in the school’s courtyard and comments, “Wow, he’s seriously handsome. He looks like a prince when he’s sleeping.” (In a voice line we learn that Ortho also tells Silver that he looks like a prince. Silver says, “Does he mean I look like Malleus?”)
Idia insists he wasn’t watching Silver as he slept and again marvels at Silver’s ability to deliver “the most impassioned caping I’ve ever heard this side of a chat room”, telling Silver he is “so cool.”
Silver looks out for Idia during Glorious Masquerade, saying that he had been worried for Idia’s health due to how quiet he is, conversing with him about souvenirs (with a lot of nervous stuttering from Idia) and buying juice for himself that Idia recommends.
When Idia characteristically becomes too nervous to participate in part of the event’s story, Silver encourages him because—like Ortho, Malleus and Azul—Silver, too is counting on him. Idia goes through with his role in the story after Silver’s pep talk and Silver seeks him out to both thank and compliment him, saying that he will be sure to tell Ortho about Idia’s bravery when they get home.
Silver says that Lilia and Malleus have been looking out for him for as long as he can remember, and while there weren’t many children his age in Briar Valley, he never felt lonely. He lived in the same cabin in the wood with Lilia his entire life, sometimes receiving visits from Sebek and Malleus, but the rest of the time his only companions were forest creatures and he even studied at home instead of going to a school.
Silver explains that Lilia would take “extended trips” for weeks at a time when he was a child, leaving him alone to look after the cabin, fish in the lake, till the fields, tend to the crops, gather strawberries and play with his animal friends alone.
He shares a story from when he was ten years old and, during one of these trips when Lilia left him alone for two weeks, he accidentally fell asleep while drying meat and attracted a bear. For days he lived in fear as the bear came to the cabin in search of food, first only at night, but then becoming bolder and breaking their fence and wrecking their shed, until, one day, he found claw marks on the cabin door.
Silver says he was frightened back then, but after they finally came face to face, they became friends. He took the bear out foraging, to areas with fruit trees and rivers with larger fish populations. She was so grateful she introduced him to her cubs who became his training partners.
Silver says that electronics are all new to him as of his enrollment at NRC. He says that he is surprised at how brightly lit everything is after sunset, as it becomes pitch dark in the woods where he grew up.
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