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The Basics
Canon: Tales of the Abyss
Character Name: Sync the Tempest
Character Journal: fifthreplacement
Player Name: Fortuna
Best contact method: FortunaDraken
Alternate: FortunaDraken#0962 on Discord

Character Details
Canon Point: After his true death
Species: Replica
A replica is something created to replace an original item; in this case, a humanoid that physically is identical to another. Rather than being made out of normal elements and fonons (elementally aligned energy particles), replicas are made entirely out of the Seventh fonon, the one aligned with sound and indirectly memory. Replicas aren't exact copies of people however – while they physically look and sound the same as their originals, they do not inherit personality or memories. They also learn differently in some cases (I'll go over specifics that apply to Sync in the personality section). Upon death, rather than leave a corpse behind like a normal person, the fonons that make up their bodies break apart, causing them to literally dissolve into particles of golden light that disperse quickly into the atmosphere.

Timeline of Important Events in Canon History:

The most important part, Sync was created, not born, as the fifth of seven replicas of the Fon Master. Despite looking around twelve years of age, and being programmed to already know how to walk, talk, eat, basics, replicas are like babies at birth and know nothing aside from what they're programmed with.

You know what five of seven means? He wasn't good enough. Requiring a replica that had at least the ability to use the Seventh fonon at the same level as the original Ion, each one was tested. Out of all seven, Sync's abilities were the worst, despite also being the most physically capable (original Ion was weakened due to illness; Sync was one of the only replicas to not inherit this). He was regarded as trash, to be thrown away.

Quite literally. Grand Maestro Mohs ordered the leftover replicas to be left at the Mount Zaleho volcano. The staff, apparently being assholes, took this further and literally shoved them into the volcano itself. He survived somehow, hiding under a rock first chance he got.

Van Grants, one of the others involved in the creating of the replicas, came out to the volcano. Why, who knows? But he found and called out to the fifth, impressed with the physical abilities displayed. Van offered him a choice, to go or to stay. In a decision he came to regret immensely, he chose to go. At this point, Van officially named him Sync.

He was taken to a place just outside of Daath, and given a mask to hide his face, given he was identical to the Fon Master. Here, Van trained Sync to be a tool for his own purpose, making him learn to fight, to analyse, to calculate and assess. Sync was smart and progressed at a rapid rate.

At the same time he was learning that while he was 'free' as Van said, he was also only alive to be used. This gave rise to self-destructive tendencies, making him borderline suicidal. Van refused to let go of him however, making it clear that the only time Sync would be allowed to die was when Van had no further use for him.

Eventually he was integrated into the Order of Lorelei, becoming one of the six God-Generals, Van's direct subordinates, along with becoming Chief of Staff thanks to his tactical abilities. By the time that canon begins, he's been alive for a mere two years, though Auldrant's years are over 700 days long, so by Earth terms he's slightly older.

As the game starts, he is one of the chief antagonists, though is also one of the less seen ones. He helps with the plan to kidnap Fon Master Ion (in truth the seventh Ion replica) in order to take him around unsealing the Sephiroth, something only Ion could do.

Sync is briefly encountered in Choral Castle when Asch the Bloody, one of the other God-Generals, had Luke kidnapped and brought to the replica machine present there to have his fon slots opened (Luke, unknowingly at the time, was a replica of Asch). Sync helps the resident tech genius of the generals, Dist the Reaper, with this task, before being briefly unmasked by Guy Cecil. Guy is thus the first to begin to suspect was Sync is, but the Tempest doesn't stick around for the others to see, retreating soon after getting his mask back on.

His first major encounter with the main party is in the Zao Ruins when they come to rescue Ion. Sync and one of his allies, Largo the Black Lion, team up to take them on, though are defeated. However with the Sephiroth unsealed, Sync called Asch back, and offered the party a deal: take Ion, but leave now, or else everyone present got to get buried under the sand. They take it.

The next time he's encountered is also brief, but during this point, he also gets a curse slot on Guy. For some time after, Sync uses this to turn Guy on his allies, Luke in particular, before it is eventually removed by Ion.

Given the main party had thoroughly messed with Van's plan at this point, Sync's next mission was also likely to be his last. A suicide mission, to hide on the Tartarus (a landship) as it dove into the core of the planet; his mission to stop the main party from returning. Despite his best efforts, they defeat him, and it's revealed not only that Ion was a replica, but that Sync was the same. Ion offers a hand of friendship to his fellow, but it is rejected, and Sync backs off, allowing himself to fall off the Tartarus and into the core, believing himself finally having a chance to die.

Van gets fought later on, also falls into the core, absorbs the sentience of the Seventh fonon, Lorelei, and finds Sync there. Since he still has work for the replica, he picks him up, returning to the surface with him. Sync is not overly pleased but doesn't say anything about it.

Van's plan comes to light then – in order to destroy Lorelei and abolish the Score, the planet's memory that tells the future and predicted that one day everyone would die to plague, Van planned to replicate the entire planet and everyone on it, as replicas weren't bound by the Score. As Score readings at this point had been abolished, Sync was tasked with going around giving fake readings to the desperate people, as a ploy to actually extract their replica data. The main party encounters him doing this, but is unable to do anything about it due to civilians being in the way.

Eventually, the device that would allow Van's vision to come about, Eldrant, rose into the sky. Sync remained on it as the main party worked to get up there, eventually gaining access as Eldrant crashed into the ground, an entrance formed thanks to the work of Asch, who turned traitor awhile ago. The main party took their time, but eventually got past various obstacles, before getting to where Sync waited. As the penultimate boss of the game, he was the last thing in their way before they could truly stop Van. They fought one last time, and Sync was finally defeated, disappearing in a cloud of fonons.

Personality:
In your character's canon, what motivates or drives them to make the decisions and choices they make? There's truly only one driving factor behind what Sync does, and that's his desire to destroy the Score. It's the reason he was born, a fact he hates, and eradicating it would be revenge for everything he's ever had to suffer in his short life. Aside from that, the only reason he does what he does is because he is ordered to do it. It's a twisted kind of loyalty to Van, because he doesn't believe he owes the man anything, but Van is also the only person who will be able to do the thing Sync wants. So he listens and obeys and it never crosses his mind not to.

Before going further in depth with Sync's personality, there's one thing to address. As a replica who was initially programmed to be able to do basic tasks, this has altered the way he learns. Sync finds it hard to nearly impossible to understand certain kinds of emotions, namely anything positive. The idea of caring for someone else is something he knows, but has never felt and thus cannot understand. Wanting to protect someone is another thing he knows exists but doesn't ever really feel. He's never had a bond with anyone.

Needless to say, the dragon thing is going to confuse the hell out of him and he's not going to know what to make of it. But on to other things.

Perhaps the very first important thing to understand about Sync is the sheer amount of hatred he has for the simple fact that he was born. He views himself as trash, a failure of a replica, and has a fair amount of self-loathing going on. He doesn't display it as such, viewing it less of something that his emotions make him feel and more of just a fact: he was born to be a replacement, he was deemed unworthy, and was tossed away. As a result, the mere fact that he was born is something that he hates. More than once in his life he's contemplated ending his existence, but never has to come to anything. Regardless, it is one of the defining points of his character. As a result, he also hates the Score for being the reason he was born. If it hadn't dictated that the Fon Master would die, he wouldn't have been born. It's why he goes along with the plan to destroy it and Lorelei, not caring about the fact it would also destroy the world.

Sync views himself as empty, and in way isn't entirely wrong. While normal people (or successful replicas) go through life as you'd expect, Sync spent most of his short life training and be used as a tool for Van Grants. He was very aware of this fact, and in all honesty doesn't really mind it. It gives him some sense of purpose, a feeling of being useful in some way. It makes his life easier to bear. Regardless, that kind of upbringing has resulted in him being very much unattached to everything and everyone. The idea of friendship, of caring for someone or something, to have a reason to actually live, is foreign to him. People who act normally are confusing. As a result, he tends to really not give a damn about a lot of things, particularly other's opinions.

It makes him dangerous as an opponent, as he's not afraid to fight with everything he has, to give up his life, as it doesn't mean much anyway if he loses. If he loses the fight, he's clearly not useful anymore, and should just die anyway if the fight didn't kill him. It's that reason that he lets himself fall from the Tartarus when he loses to the party in the core. He doesn't need the party's pity, seeing that kind of life as worthless and pathetic.

Despite this, it's also true that if he was going to die, he'd rather it be on his terms. It's why he fights so hard, because dying to some pathetic excuse for a person is not exactly okay by him. If he's going to die from a fight, then that person had better put everything they have into it. Heaven help he ever gets killed by something managing to catch him off guard or sneaking up on him. It'd just make him hate himself even more. This kind of thinking comes from a very deeply buried will to live that even he isn't aware that he has. He might not value his life or care about dying, but somewhere inside him is a desire to live that stops him from killing himself except in extreme circumstances such as the core dive, when he's deep in a self loathing spiral and his only chance to survive is go with those he hates, which he will not do. Van gave him a suicide mission, and clearly didn't want him to live from it, so die he would as ordered. It's what made him survive the few days after being thrown into the Mt Zaleho volcano before Van came to pick him up. Sync will always say that he wants to die due to the miserable life he's led, but in reality, if given the option, he would never be able to go through with it. So he fights with everything he has, he refuses to give up and die just because someone or something wants him to (he very visibly sneers at the fact he believes the seventh Ion replica died just because the Score said he would). And even if defeated, if an opponent shows him mercy, or gives him the option to finish it himself, he won't. It may be the only time he realises just how badly he wishes to live, but until something like that occurs, he remains borderline suicidal.

Two words that describe Sync very well are ruthless and sadistic. Ruthless in that he is not one to care about what happens to those that aren't important to Van's plans, ruthless in that he will destroy anyone in his path without stopping or hesitating. If there is one thing he definitely is, it's an effective weapon. Sadistic in that he's not beyond doing whatever it takes to achieve what he plans. When Anise tries to stop him from taking people to get their Score read (and quite possibly dying), he's not above changing his voice, raising it to sound identical to the replica Ion, whom Anise was quite close to, despite the fact that Ion had just recently died. He knows damn well it'll hurt her, and frankly he doesn't care. In fact, if anything it simply amuses him that it's so easy to get by her.

Sync doesn't have a temper as such. It is kind of hard to anger someone who really doesn't give a damn about what you think. But he does have a few things that can make him mad (put in the right way, sometimes they'll just amuse him), namely pretty much anything that attempts to validate his existence, or claim he's actually worth something, or knows more about the whole existing thing than he does. Ignoring him in a way that says he's being underestimated can also do it. His temper doesn't tend to boil up to exploding point like a normal person's; instead it usually flips to mildly annoyed at best to pissed off to high hell and likely about to punch someone in face if he isn't already. Given his age, it's almost like a temper tantrum, except that his are lethal and can very easily be fatal.

Abilities, Magic and Supernatural Skills/Afflictions:

Physical combat ability - Sync is one of the most unusual fighters in all of Tales of the Abyss. He is the only one to fight without a weapon, and in all honesty he doesn't need it. His punches and kicks hurt, and while he might not be the strongest, he makes up for it with speed. Sync is fast. In a full sprint, it's hard to even see him, he moves that quickly. His fighting ability tends towards using this speed to hit quickly and fall back out of range of a counter-attack. His ultimate Mystic Arte is pure physical force that can take someone down in seconds if they're hit by it. However this comes with a downside in that he doesn't have the defence some of the other God-Generals have; a well placed hit that actually connects will hurt him.
Magical combat ability - Despite this, it doesn't mean he's without other options. Sync has a variety of artes, or magical skills, at his disposal, and he isn't afraid to use them if his foe is deliberately keeping away from him. He favours skills of the wind element, which indirectly includes lightning as they're the same element in canon. Despite this, he also has skills in the other three main elements of earth, fire and water (and indirectly ice, as it's also counted as water). His first Mystic Arte is a massive Area of Effect magic skill that uses light and sound as its elements, capable of doing extreme damage in a limited area.
Daathic Fonic Artes - These are specific artes that usually only the Fon Master can use. Thanks to being a replica of him, Sync can use two specific Daathic artes. The first is his Mystic Arte, described above. The second is the curse slot, which creates a seal on the foe's body. Sync can then use this to mess with the person's memories, stirring up old, buried thoughts and using them to control the person. In canon, he uses this on Guy Cecil to bring up Guy's hatred and desire for revenge against Duke Fabre and his family in order to make Guy attack Luke, the Duke's son. The curse slot relies on those memories being present however – it can't make a person act unless they genuinely wanted to act that way at some point in their life.
Fonic glyph - Despite being the Fon Master's replica, Sync's ability to use the Seventh fonon was dismal at best. It's been boosted to its current level thanks to the giant glyph that was seared onto his chest by Van Grants shortly after his birth.
Intelligence - Sync is absurdly smart. Aside from knowing a ridiculous amount about fighting, he's also a tactical genius, to the point that even the other God-Generals would look to him for orders. He can analyse and assess a situation faster than most, coming up with the best course of action. Even when it's something he'd rather not do, like let an opponent get away or retreating, if it's the smartest thing to do, he'll do it.
Replica - Due to being a replica, Sync is made of Seventh fonons. This makes him mildly susceptible to anything that would manipulate sound in any way. He also won't leave a corpse behind if killed, instead dissolving into a cloud of fonons.

Dragon & Magical Element
Elemental Alignment:

Wind - Wind is Sync's element. Each God-General is associated with an element, and wind is his. It's his most naturally used element and given how familiar he is with it, it'll be to his advantage to still have it.
Energy - In TotA, lightning is a subset of wind rather than being its own element. Since wind is already Sync's most familiar element, energy would most likely be as natural to him as wind would be.
Light - While not a commonly used element for him, one of Sync's ultimate moves, or Mystic Artes, uses light and sound as its source. It's also one of the elements he's naturally more resistant to. I picked light over one of the elements he uses normally in canon because of it's affinity with energy.

Dragon:

Egg - A deep, dark green. It's faintly transparent, enough to allow a glimpse of what may be inside without making out any details. It feels like a smooth stone, and could easily be mistaken for some kind of gemstone if not for the fact it's warmer than any stone has a right to be. While not tiny, it can be easily picked up with one hand, and is lighter than it appears.
Hatchling - The tiny creature has a habit of sitting on shoulders, and given even at this young age the gold claws on her feet are sharp, this can sometimes be rather painful. She resembles a traditional wyvern, with two legs and feathered wings instead of arms, and has bright orange eyes. The wings themselves are tiny and aren't capable of carrying her in flight, though they do allow for gliding. The rest of her body is covered in a short fuzz. She's a green colour, that makes her remarkably invisible in long grass, leaves, and against Sync's hair.
Juvenile - After learning to fly, it's nearly impossible to keep her out of the air. Her tail is starting to develop a feathered fan on the end of it, and two ridges of light-coloured feathers are now visible above her eyes, making it much easier to tell how she's feeling. Her head, back, legs and the top of her wings have darkened in colour slightly, while her underbelly is a lighter green. She's too big to shoulder sit anymore, though for awhile perching on an outstretched arm is possible until eventually, she's too big for that too.
Adult - She's not the biggest dragon in the world, but she's tall enough to be able to plonk her head down on top of Sync's, and carry him in flight. Her wings are enormous for her size, green to pale green on the underside while dark green on top with white bands along the edges of her feathers. Her whole body is the same dark green, barring a neutral green strip that runs along her underside, and her tail fan, which is in various shades of neutral-light green, white and yellow. Given her size, she falls into the medium class. While she'll eat meat, she prefers fruit when she can get it.

Personality traits inherited from Character Bond:

Will to live, a refusal to simply give in and die no matter the circumstance

Ruthlessness

Preference for being alone

Difficulty understanding kindness from others

Writing Samples
First Sample: Heeding the Call

Sync hadn't expected to wake again, period. No matter what the circumstances were. He had died, had finally been given the chance to stop dealing with Auldrant and the worthless people on it. He hadn't even cared anymore about whether or not the Score would be destroyed, because what would it matter? He was dead, had felt the fonons that made up his body dissolving, dissipating into the air.

And yet here he was. Whole and alive, very much alive. And with a strange memory, one he couldn't place, but unnerved him all the same. Great black wings that darkened the sky, blotting out the sun. Something about that memory was disturbing. If only he knew why.

Speaking of knowing why, another good question was why he felt the need to come to this place. Something had compelled him to move, something he'd wanted to resist but the urge to go, to find something, something important, was too strong to ignore. At least his speed was still something he had; the streets passed by in a blur, avoiding the strangers and wondering about the unknown area. He couldn't keep up top speed for long, but it was enough to get out of the area with most people, slowing but not stopping at the upper parts of the city, before finally finding the strange cavern. Without knowing why, he crossed the floor, feet seemingly knowing exactly where to go. The other eggs were ignored, only one of them holding his gaze, dropping down to one knee near it. The runes on the floor glowed before dimming, as if recognising him. The egg itself wasn't that large, something he could've easily picked up in one hand, reaching out to do so. And would have done, if it hadn't cracked the instant he touched it, the top of the egg wobbling before lifting and being shoved off the rest of it.

"The hell?" he muttered under his breath, eyeing the strange creature within. Sync wasn't unused to seeing monsters, but this wasn't one of Arietta's winged beasts. It definitely had wings, flapping them feebly as it tried to righten itself off of its back. The little thing finally got upright and looked back up at him, making him blink at the fierce orange eyes. Before being surprised as it let out a determined wark and lunged at him, making him shout in alarm, recoiling and landing on his rear. The creature didn't care, having grabbed at his shirt with teeth and claws, scrambling up onto shoulder and from there to his back, making the replica hiss as its claws dug in. "Get off!" he yelled, reaching around to grab the thing.

It complied, only because it chose to grab his hand instead, clinging on as he pulled his hand around to scowl at the creature. It didn't seem to care, wings wrapping around his arm to hold on as it lifted its head on an unsteady neck, watching him almost expectantly. And while his normal reaction would've been to scrap the creature off him and leave it there...he didn't. And Sync wasn't entirely sure why. "What are you?" he asked it, brow furrowed in confusion. He'd never experienced anything like this, someone (or something in this case) seemingly determined to get something from him.

...needing him? The thought made him stop, frozen as his eyes went wide. The creature was only tiny, newborn, but instinct was enough to make it – no, her. Make her try to push at the bond they shared, letting out another sound to convey that she was hungry. The replica just hesitated before slowly, carefully getting up, the dragon clinging to his arm as he did. This tiny creature needed him, had some sort of bond with him. He had no idea what to make of that. He was confused as hell, but also...he didn't know how to describe the feeling. But for the first time something in his life actually needed him. Acknowledged him as something other than just a tool to be used. He sort of wished he knew what to do, it was the one thing he was not prepared for.

The dragon headbutted him in the chest, knocking him out of his thoughts. "Alright already. I get it," he muttered, trying to ignore the feeling that was pulling at him. Well, first things first, he guessed. Find something the tiny terror would eat. He could figure out the rest later.

Second Sample: Individual prompt – Adult dragon, slightly further into the game

Why this place had chosen him, he still wasn't entirely sure. Something about Great Beasts, stopping some monstrosity from coming back, a few things that were unimportant but he'd memorised regardless. None of it had anything to do with him. He was no hero, no saviour. He'd been a part of a plot that would've destroyed Auldrant had it succeeded, to give rise to a new world. Why anyone would pick him, he didn't know. Especially when all he really wanted to do was be left in peace, to die and be done with this stupid thing called life.

And even now he couldn't bring himself to finish it all. One, there'd be no point just giving up. If he was to die, better it be for some reason. Two...well, as much as he tried to deny it, the second reason was the strange green dragon he'd been paired with, the first creature to actually need him. At first Sync had tried to work it out logically, that the creature was only depending on him because she was young and had no parent to teach her, to protect her. That eventually once she was old enough, she'd be done using him and leave, just like all the rest had or would have. But no. She had remained, seeming to actually care for him, once they'd gotten to know each other better. Eventually he'd realised she needed a name, which made him unsure all over again. Sync hadn't even named himself, it had been a word that Van had offered, eventually claimed as his own over time. The dragon's element was wind, so he'd thought out loud on a few ideas, and she'd liked the word 'Gale' the most, so he'd gone with it. It seemed better to let her decide then simply give her a name. A choice, something he hadn't been given.

It seemed to be a good name, because Gale was entirely too fond of her element. When she wasn't using magic to conjure up the wind, she was creating her own using her wings. And having learned to fly a few weeks ago, it was hard keeping her out of the air. Not that he minded greatly. It gave him time to think, like now, lying on a hill somewhere out in the open, watching the sky and wondering.

He wasn't left to wonder for too long though; a pair of orange eyes appeared upside-down above him as the dragon reached down to grab and tug on his hair. "Oi, cut it out," Sync snapped, pushing her away and sitting up. "What do you want?" She only ever did that lately when she wanted something, but she'd eaten not long ago. The dark green dragon moved around him, crouching down in front of him and staring expectantly. He raised an eyebrow at her before she pointedly looked at him, then up at the sky, then back at him. "...I can't fly, you know that." Sometimes his dragon was dumb, he swore. Her retaliation was to reach out and tug at his hair again, before letting go and looking at her back, then again at him. "That seems like a really dumb idea."

He had ridden on her back before, when the weather had turned truly horrible and the grass so bogged down it had turned less into mud and more into a quicksand like goop. Gale had been able to move through it thanks to her long legs, and figuring only one of them really needed to get covered in mud (and not willing to risk the embarrassment of falling on his face if he got stuck), Sync had quickly learned how to ride. But they hadn't flown together before, which was another matter entirely. It took another few seconds of staring him down before Gale finally got her way, letting out a pleased trill as he sighed and gave in. "If this ends badly, it's entirely your fault," he commented, pulling himself up onto her back and keeping his balance as she stood up. Gale either pretended not to hear him, or flat out didn't care, looking up and tensing, before leaping.

Sync was rather proud of the fact he managed to not yelp in surprise. Gale only needed two flaps of her wings to be up enough to settle into true flying, given how huge they were. Instinct guided her, the ground almost falling away. He watched it go, not minding the height too much. It was a new feeling, being so far off the ground on something much smaller than Eldrant, and something that wasn't a machine. Gale wasn't a machine, she would grow tired eventually and have to rest. But, as he realised with a start, he trusted her. He trusted his dragon to know her limits, to get them back to safety when staying in the air was no longer an option.

That was a way off though. She was revelling in the freedom of flight, swaying and dipping with the wind. And he thought he could understand why. There was something in being able to be so high up, where few could reach them and tell them what to do. He'd been 'free' before, to do what he wanted so long as it was within Van's plan, but that hadn't been true freedom. Not like this. This was something new entirely. Something that Sync thought he could come to enjoy, which was another startling thought. He couldn't remember a time when he'd enjoyed something that was entirely done for him. Or for them, in this case.

The young replica didn't really understand what was going on lately, not in full. But maybe, just a little...he could agree that being here wasn't so bad. When it was just him and Gale and everyone else just didn't matter...yeah. Maybe it wasn't so bad after all.

30 Day Opt-In

In the 30 days that your character has been in the city, how have they spent their time?
A lot of Sync's time has mostly been spent exploring the city, finding out where people meet, what they do, that kind of thing. He's the kind of person who likes to know the lay of the land, so he definitely spent awhile learning the area. After that, it was mostly learning how this dragon thing even works, because the bond thing is confusing as hell and he's not really attached to the dragon yet, but it's still kind of...weirdly okay? Having something that actually cares about him. So he's spent a lot of time just working on understanding her.

Has the dragon hatched yet? Did their egg hatch immediately or was there time between locating their egg in the Heart of Nuren and the dragon's hatchday? How much have they grown?
Yes! It took a week and a bit, the egg didn't hatch immediately. Sync was kind of confused by why he needed to mind an egg of all things, but he did, and she has now hatched. She's still pretty tiny, Gale hasn't hit that initial growth spurt yet. She can't quite sit on a hand, but two together can support her. She has become rather fond of perching either on Sync's head or his shoulders though.

How have your character's interactions with the Remnants within the city been?
How have your character's interactions with the Touched within the city been?
I'm going to lump these two questions together, because they're going to have very similar answers. Sync does not like people. He doesn't like interacting with people, he doesn't like being around people. He'll have treated everyone very similarly, and that is with mild distrust, and if the conversation doesn't seem to be likely to give him any new information, the desire to get away from it as quickly as possible. It's kind of rude, but then, Sync really doesn't care. Perhaps the only people he's tried to not annoy too badly is those that could help feed both him and his dragon while he waits on Gale to be big enough to go outside, so they can start getting their own food and stop being reliant on people, along with anyone who might have given him information on the city and the world he's in.

Sync isn't outright hostile, but he's also not friendly at all, so people who have seen him around may have heard that he's one that prefers to be left alone.

Has your character been living in the mountain cavern homes of Upper Nuren or within the housing areas of Lower Nuren?
The mountain caverns. There's less people and less chance of running into someone when he really doesn't want to. Sync values having somewhere that is basically his that he can destress without the risk of others coming in, so the mountain caverns are perfect for that.