I've read every single post in this thread, seen the story, the screenshots, the excuses, and the replies following up until now.
Furthermore, I have done just about everything endgame there was to do when I was playing, been to an extremely ridiculous amount of Dynamis runs with three completely different shells, and camped boring ass HNMs.
So, I feel pretty qualified in saying that you fucked him over.
People get what they want and leave every single day, in different games. Busta if I recall correctly did leave, and may have appeared to have just up and ran with an item that your LS may value. But, he came back, and has a straight up legit reason to not have responded to Watch. He did respond eventually, and he even gave the tunic back because he was told he could come back into the shell and earn it. This means he didn't up and run, his reasons were real, and he was willing to come back into the LS, give the tunic back, and earn it himself with hard work. This is honorable, and there is clearly nothing dirty about his intentions when he gave you it back and wanted to work to earn it back. Any real living breathing person that has any sense of respect for another human being would at this point accept him with open arms, encourage him to get things done, and give him a pat on the back for choosing the responsible thing to do which is pay his debt to the LS and earn it.
What do you do? You kick him because he was afk for a while attending to his kid while you spammed him with tells. Now I'm sure when you were sending him tells and imagined you were being ignored, you got emo as hell and needed to make up some bullshit excuse and probably made yourself even more angry. Probably, no, you definately did, just from the bullshit you post here today to try and defend such a disgraceful act.
I'm not going to sit here and rant about the comments about the baby not being an excuse, but what did happen, and has been shown to the public, word for word, is straight up bullshit. I've done endgame, I've earned shit, I've played with selfish people and selfless people. You guys fuck over an honest, caring person that's willing to work for something and even give up what he's been given just to come back and play/earn it? I think I speak for everybody that's not in your LS kissing your ass right now when I say "What the fuck?".
Everybody's already said everything insulting I'd like to say, but really, what the fuck? I'm having a hard time even reading some of these posts from your members. The man was not hardcore enough for your LS? He gave the shit back and wanted to earn it with a legit reason for being gone, and you dick him out of it because you're a self righteous jackass. Even in your posts you can tell it. Holier than thou is an understatement for something this absurd. You guys as a whole have gone off the deep end if it really comes to bragging about how hardcore dedicated you are to your LS that you dump your girlfriend, other members come to circle jerk the leader about blatantly lying to and fucking over a straight up decent, honest guy, and you can actually feel good about this?
Wow. Just wow.
In layman's terms: Watch, you're not hot shit. Get off your high horse and come down. Reality check: You're just another dude, chilling at college, playing a god damn video game. You're not hardcore Billy Badass. Get a fucking clue and learn to respect other people.
For the rest of you(LS members), holy shit. You definately will not have these attitudes when real life cockslaps you across the face. Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to tell you how to live your life and what your priorities should be, but get a grip.
For the record, I'm well aware you may not give two shits about my post. As a matter of fact I'm 100% certain you'll reply to it with some sad ass attempt at wit and have more LS members circle jerk the post to try and make it look as stupid as possible, but really, who gives a shit? This really is just plain old bullshit.
I don't even like this fucking forum but I had to post this shit it's so ass backwards. Seriously, just, god damn. Let him back in the LS to earn the shit back, apologize to eachother, and quit acting like fucking babies. You're clearly angry about things that other white mages did beforehand, and taking it out on this guy who is completely innocent and willing to earn his shit, and GAVE THE TUNIC BACK SO HE COULD EARN IT. You know who needs to grow a pair? You need to grow a pair, apologize to the dude, and give him his shot at earning his shit if he even still wants anything to do with you.