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Varian

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FROM: SUBJECT: JUN & HARU Hey Var, do you got a moment? JUN Just so you know, I'm fine, but I might be harder to contact. EVE Hey Varian, are you on this train? JUN Hey honey, where are you? GIL The Cube 4 GIL The Cube 3 JUN Hey Var, is this a good time to run a rather personal ethical dilemma by you? JUN Oh hey, lumber! GIL The Cube 2 GIL The Cube 1 RATIO Some while back... JUN I'm fine, I went to my room. KNI I am sorry. RATIO I will be going back to teaching on Monday. NOCTIS you okay there? JUN Date BLADE Varian. How are you doing? NOCTIS hey, you’re an engineer. JUN birthday NOCTIS hey, it's noctis. from the park? BLADE A little bird told me... ZHONGLI Hello. This is Zhongli BLADE This is Blade. Jusis told me to find you... ROSE You’re Varian, right? AMAL Loser gets adopted FERN Heyyyy V, you busy? DANNY Birthday AMAL Happy nameday to the best scientist I know! JUN Are you busy? There's something I wanted to ask you. AMAL hey varian FERN hey i just realized something great DANNY Hey. I know you're probably busy with everything... ZODIAC Happy Holiday from Zodiac! CLAUDE Hey Varian. You there? ZELOS Heeeey Varian! I'm sure you're busy... FIVE I know you might be busy right now but... FERN heyyy, did you see that guy...

TO: SUBJECT: JUN Two questions. BLADE Hey, hey hey, Blade. JUN Birthday VASH I figure it's probably about time we talk, huh? JUN 愛してるよ ???!!! AMAL Dad? You home? JUN Forgt anyting nuice I said aboout space KNI Happy birthday, Kni! MIKLEO Hey, Mikleo. Jun said it'd be okay to message you... YUUKI So hey, do you think you could... JUN So. Uh. That happened. ELLIOT Hi, Elliot. Can I talk to you about something? AMAL Dad, something happened to Fern. DANNY Hey, Bud. I've got some bad?? news? EVE Hey, Eve. I wanted to make sure AMAL Happy birthday, Dad! AMAL Hey, could I get your opinion on something? VASH Hi there! Texting ahead of time like you asked. FERN Happy birthday, you. FERN Day of Hearts WILL Hey, Will. When are you free? I've got your... ELLIOT ...Hey, Elliot. Can I ask your advice on something? SNOW Hey, you available? ELLIOT Elliot? I'm- I'm really sorry to bother you... AUGUST Hey. Can I ask a follow-up question after my last one? DANNY Hey. There's something important I need to talk to you about. FIVE Hey, I was thinking we should probably talk MOANA Hey. Remember me saying we probably needed to talk... ELLIOT Um. Hey. I wondered if we could talk. AMAL Hey. Are you busy? Can we talk? HUNTER Just so you're aware... AUGUST Can I ask some advice? DANNY Hey, Danny! I think I've figured out something... KEN Hey! The figure you wanted is all finished.

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Comments

[unreachableside]

[He is a bit of a simp. Incurably so.]

Me, too.

... They did. I'm on probation, so I didn't expect to be paid while I had my powers Sealed regardless. But to forgo paying Jusis and the other long-time members? They are sending a message. As for me... I still have my job as a civil engineer, even if I can't expect a raise this year due to all the time I took off.

Ideally, I'd like to take a sabbatical until all of this is over so I can focus purely on the upcoming battle. But... I need to be able to eat. [Such is life.]

I'll owe you after this is over, then. Maybe you can build the next mech suit and I'll supervise.

[VARIAN IS SUCH A GOOD KID AUGH]

I'm not usually in the business of saving the world. I had a bounty on my head in my past life.

Feels weird.

[droptheious]

So they stopped paying ALL the Order members? Because, like, it's not like they sent an actual sociopath into your midst who IMMEDIATELY started attacking everyone? Like... I don't know what they expected to happen? That's insanity.

Of COURSE you still need to be able to eat. You all do. Seriously, don't worry about it for now. Focus what money you can get on being able to put food on the table, If you need help with that let me know.

I won't say no to building the next mech suit, though.

[It's the culmination of a lot of hard work in becoming a better person!]

Hah. I know how that feels. Back in my old world, I was one of Corona's most wanted felons once. Then suddenly you're helping save everyone from world-ending chaos. It's a super weird shift.

[unreachableside]

No one's getting paid. At this point, their doubling down is just begging for the inevitable to happen. They were the ones who sent a snake into a mongoose nest to rile us up and now they're mad that the snake got its head bit off.

[Seriously, this is the dumbest end goal.]

All right. I'll remember that. Thanks, Varian.

I've been the one captaining all the projects so far, so I think it's time I let you helm the ship for once.

[This is the funniest and worst thing to have in common.]

You're a little young for a grizzled felon, but I get it. I know how easy it is to get in over your head when you're smarter than everyone else.

Even in this life I find it hard not to look over my shoulder sometimes, but maybe I'll get over it in another five years or so...

[droptheious]

Exactly! I don't know what they expect after all this. Just starving you guys out won't do anything but make you more likely for everything to happen. They dug their own graves.

[ Literally. ]

Thanks! I'll be really careful! You won't regret it.

I was fourteen when I was a felon so even younger. It was... a bad time. I made mistakes, I wasn't completely innocent, but I wasn't completely without a reason too. It was complicated. But I've learned from it.

I think it's important to not forget what's happened in the past- we need to learn from things that've happened. So long as you don't make it something that controls everything you do, I think it's okay.

[unreachableside]

Yeah.

I'm confident you'll do a good job.

[He knows how Varian works by now.]

Fourteen? Fourteen???? You were a child. No child should ever be called a felon. A child literally cannot grasp the consequences of their actions the way an adult can, their brain isn't developed. Even I know this, and I got knocked in the head so hard I forgot almost everything.

[He rubs his face invisibly.]

... Anyway. You're right. In my past life, I let my guilt and my vengeance control me until I was nothing but a shell of my former self. I won't let that happen again.

My cooperation with the Black Order has an endpoint.

[droptheious]

Thank you, I appreciate that.

[Bless you, Blade, for boosting his confidence every time. ]

I mean. I literally tried to murder the royal family with a giant automaton. I definitely knew it was the wrong thing to do. I was stopped and arrested for it, and spent a year in prison before I broke out. So it's less about being called a felon and more. You know. Legally being one.

I got pardoned after I saved the city.

[It's super fine. He's SUPER fine. ]

Yeah, that's a road where nothing good comes from it. But at least you know better now.

Good. They don't deserve you.

[unreachableside]

If a kid walks up to another kid and smacks them, they'll probably get smacked back just as hard, right? You were functioning on survival logic because it was all you knew. They could have helped you learn to be better, but they didn't. I bet you were justified, just not to the point of murder.

Still... I'm glad you got pardoned.

[Neither of them are ok, jesus christ.]

One of these days you're going to invent something that will change the world in a really good way. I can feel it.

[droptheious]

The King covered up a magical anomaly that was literally killing the livelihoods of the poorer people in the kingdom. I tried to fix it myself when I knew we wouldn't get any help at the palace. My dad got... hurt real bad. He got stuck in the experiment I was doing to try and fix it. The Princess couldn't help me when that happened and didn't come to me for months after I asked her for help. They kind of just... forgot about me. So yeah. I guess to a point I was justified, but I took it too far too. I've accepted my fault in what happened just as much as theirs. It's... well, it's not fine, but it is what it is.

[He's made as much peace with it as he can. There's no changing the past and he can't go back to Corona anymore, regardless. It's always going to be an unfinished mess in his life and he knows he has to live with that or let it consume him. Therapy has done him wonders in that, at least. ]

Me too. Prison sucked.

[ Neither of them are even slightly okay in the tiniest bit. ]

That's the hope! Before I got pulled into this world, I managed to create a running hot water system for my homeland, so that was... good. But really hoping I can do something here, too. One day.