Common? You mean- [ them being dead?, is something he can't bring himself to say. daylight knows it's all but a fact for his life, an unfortunate turn of events that he couldn't control and had no part of but- still-

so he ducks his helm instead, buying some time to think of how he should answer that. ] ... No. Not really. Dad's passing was an accident. He- He chose to save others over himself when something happened.

And Mom didn't have the best health. It kind of caught up with her in the end because she worked so hard to help others. [ he feels like that's the politest and the least depressing way to summarise his parents'- his parents' absence. yeah, he decides as he looks back up at rosinante and tries to smile. ] I still got to know them, at least! Stories from my aunties and uncles and archive footage and things they wrote. I got a good idea of them from that despite everything.