[ Varian's learned not to beat himself up too much for the mistakes he's made here now. Not like he used to, anyway. He's learned to accept that mistakes are part of the process of learning and so long as he doesn't create them with any real malice, then that would make all the difference.
He'd meant it when he said he didn't expect Jun to share anything in return. He knows between Krusnik and his past life and everything in-between, there were things Jun could never voice aloud. He understood that and would never push for anything.
But here he is, sharing anyway. Varian remembers Teresa. He's pretty sure the whole app will remember her forever. She was a poison that absolutely had to be removed, and here's Jun saying how he orchestrated just that. He's quiet for a moment, before having out a soft sigh.]
You're right. Sometimes what needs to be done isn't good. But you've still got to do it anyway.
When I was doing all that work I talked about? Getting back into Corona's good graces? A friend of ours took the Moonstone for herself, she was manipulated by a demon into waging war against everyone. I knew the weakneses in our Kingdom's defenses [ because he'd taken advatange of them himself ] and I knew she had to be stopped before she could get through them. I created a weapon using that amber to stop her if it came to it. Permently. Rapunzel could never hurt her friend, never... get her hands dirty that way. But I could.
[Because he'd already gone there. It's less of a strain on a person's soul when they've already been willing to kill to do it again, it turns out. He moves one hand to take Jun's, carefully interlacing their fingers, giving the other's hand a firm squeeze. Solid. He wasn't going anywhere. ]
Teresa would have escalated. Who knows how many people she would have hurt or even killed if you hadn't done that. You did what you had to do to make sure a monster didn't get a harder foothold against a city of people. None of us could've predicted what a mess that would've ended up being. You did what you thought needed to be done, even if that wasn't the morally squeaky clean thing to do. Sometimes... sometimes it can't be the cleanest, gentlest thing when you're facing against something like that. You have to get your hands dirty or push other people into doing it to make sure something worse doesn't happen.
There's a big difference between doing bad things for bad reasons and doing them for good reasons. Not a lot of people see that line, and I get that, but it is there. [ He offers a gentle, reasuring smile.] So, far as I'm concerned, the Jun you are now is still the same one to me, too. I'm not gonna make you feel guilty for doing what you had to do to save people's lives. You can do that enough for yourself, you won't hear that from me.
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He'd meant it when he said he didn't expect Jun to share anything in return. He knows between Krusnik and his past life and everything in-between, there were things Jun could never voice aloud. He understood that and would never push for anything.
But here he is, sharing anyway. Varian remembers Teresa. He's pretty sure the whole app will remember her forever. She was a poison that absolutely had to be removed, and here's Jun saying how he orchestrated just that. He's quiet for a moment, before having out a soft sigh.]
You're right. Sometimes what needs to be done isn't good. But you've still got to do it anyway.
When I was doing all that work I talked about? Getting back into Corona's good graces? A friend of ours took the Moonstone for herself, she was manipulated by a demon into waging war against everyone. I knew the weakneses in our Kingdom's defenses [ because he'd taken advatange of them himself ] and I knew she had to be stopped before she could get through them. I created a weapon using that amber to stop her if it came to it. Permently. Rapunzel could never hurt her friend, never... get her hands dirty that way. But I could.
[Because he'd already gone there. It's less of a strain on a person's soul when they've already been willing to kill to do it again, it turns out. He moves one hand to take Jun's, carefully interlacing their fingers, giving the other's hand a firm squeeze. Solid. He wasn't going anywhere. ]
Teresa would have escalated. Who knows how many people she would have hurt or even killed if you hadn't done that. You did what you had to do to make sure a monster didn't get a harder foothold against a city of people. None of us could've predicted what a mess that would've ended up being. You did what you thought needed to be done, even if that wasn't the morally squeaky clean thing to do. Sometimes... sometimes it can't be the cleanest, gentlest thing when you're facing against something like that. You have to get your hands dirty or push other people into doing it to make sure something worse doesn't happen.
There's a big difference between doing bad things for bad reasons and doing them for good reasons. Not a lot of people see that line, and I get that, but it is there. [ He offers a gentle, reasuring smile.] So, far as I'm concerned, the Jun you are now is still the same one to me, too. I'm not gonna make you feel guilty for doing what you had to do to save people's lives. You can do that enough for yourself, you won't hear that from me.