⚔ 016; [video]

[croibhristeoir]

I-if anyone has a moment, I'm having a small problem. [This was the understatement of the millennium.]

I'd like to ask how...h-how...er...forgive me, I am having some trouble articulating things today. [Diarmuid adjusted the glasses he wore, seeming hesitant to look directly at the camera at first.]

Imagine one that...has gone through life without anger or hatred. This individual had never felt spite, resentment, or even a shred of those kind of things. He did all he could to put others and their happiness before himself and his own, finding contentment and joy in doing so. But after a certain point, that person...he found someone that did something so deplorable that it left that person filled with rage and spite.

He found someone that he hated. And no matter how he tried, that person could not simply forgive what was done to earn that hatred.

I beg of you, Prospero. Someone please tell me how that person can go back to the way he was. Before he could feel anger and spite, back when he could still grant forgiveness.

[Diarmuid looked away for a moment; he was unsure, even worried.]

Fionn, Grainne-- [Gods, what would they think of him when they knew?] ...there is something I have not yet told you. Forgive me for not doing so until now.

Arturia... [Another pause. She had been there when he had died, she knew the horrible rage he had unleashed that day. Cursing her, Kayneth, Kiritsugu, even the Grail itself. Again he worried that she must secretly detest such a hateful spirit.] When you have the time...I would like to speak with you. Please.

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[scorpiospider]

You can't. [Blunt. Flat.] Doesn't matter, though. Raaaaaaaage can make you powerful, or at least less of a victim.

[croibhristeoir]

I'm no victim. I never have been.

[scorpiospider]

Everyone's a victim. Get used to it. Maaaaaaaybe you can kick some ass before it takes you down!

[croibhristeoir]

[Deadpan.]

I'm not a victim, and very capable of protecting myself.

[scorpiospider]

Yeah, yeah. Keep telling yourself that, okay?

[croibhristeoir]

You severely underestimate me, Vriska.

[scorpiospider]

Nope. Just realistic. Only troll I can think of that isn't a victim is Her Imperious Condescension Herself and that's because she's hiveshit insane. And the Empress, tyrian blooded, and did I mention hiveshit insane?

[croibhristeoir]

You do realize not all of us are from your world, correct?

[scorpiospider]

And how you're reacting tells me that it's exactly like my world anyway. You're either a victim and you don't know it so you're even more of one, or you know it and you do as much as you can to take as many people with you.

[croibhristeoir]

You're wrong.

[scorpiospider]

Wow, you are naive, aren't you? I'm sweeps younger than you and I already know that!

[croibhristeoir]

I'm not naive.