"Disgrace to the arts"

"What's so interesting about him"

"Just a tone-deaf bard"

People nowadays... it seemed they treated Venti with less, and less, and less respect. But why? Losing everything, everything, just to keep a city safe... that deserved respect. Honor. But what did Venti get treated like? Dry rot, that's what.

In fact, it was like you were the only one who understood him, the only one who had been in his shoes. You regularly saw him at the tavern, Angel's Share, but each time, he was more and more sulken.

Until one day... news passed around that he had tried to commit... uh... let's call it self-removal of the life branch. (Filter won't let the actual word slide.) Of course... no one cared. They just took a listen, and moved on. Not you. You literally froze like a statue when you heard those words.