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Two [Video/Backdated to Event]: In Which Klaus Has Feelings Because Plurk Wanted It
[After talking to Ingrid, Klaus is feeling more than a little bit... off. For a man usually utterly unflappable, this sudden influx of ~feelings~ isn't usual or welcome.
He isn't a bad parent. He worked for years to make sure that his son was independent and strong. He did his very best to ensure that when, finally, one of the assassins actually hit their mark, Gil would be able to run the country efficiently. Wasn't that the important thing? Keeping Gil alive was far more important than keeping him happy. Dead children can't adore their fathers.
Only now, he's not so sure.]
I have a question for you, Prospero. An entirely hypothetical question.
Say there is a man. He is in charge of a country -- a large, volatile, war-torn country. He was welcomed as a savior when he first took power but almost immediately fell out of favor when he actually began to make decisions and it was discovered that he could not, in fact, please everyone. This man has a son.
He is, naturally, worried for his son's safety. He himself is the victim of several assassination attempts a month. He can handle them. A young child could not. Is it therefore acceptable for him to sever his ties with his child and keep the relationship a secret in order to protect the son and ensure that he grows up independent of the stress of being the heir to the throne, as it were? Especially considering that he did intend to tell him when he was old enough to handle it?
[Entirely hypothetical. Yes. SO HYPOTHETICAL BITCHES DON'T KNOW.]
He isn't a bad parent. He worked for years to make sure that his son was independent and strong. He did his very best to ensure that when, finally, one of the assassins actually hit their mark, Gil would be able to run the country efficiently. Wasn't that the important thing? Keeping Gil alive was far more important than keeping him happy. Dead children can't adore their fathers.
Only now, he's not so sure.]
I have a question for you, Prospero. An entirely hypothetical question.
Say there is a man. He is in charge of a country -- a large, volatile, war-torn country. He was welcomed as a savior when he first took power but almost immediately fell out of favor when he actually began to make decisions and it was discovered that he could not, in fact, please everyone. This man has a son.
He is, naturally, worried for his son's safety. He himself is the victim of several assassination attempts a month. He can handle them. A young child could not. Is it therefore acceptable for him to sever his ties with his child and keep the relationship a secret in order to protect the son and ensure that he grows up independent of the stress of being the heir to the throne, as it were? Especially considering that he did intend to tell him when he was old enough to handle it?
[Entirely hypothetical. Yes. SO HYPOTHETICAL BITCHES DON'T KNOW.]
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And you speak of stopping the world. Isn't that what the man in this case did? He took over an entire country just to ensure that it would be the sort of place his son could live in. He worked himself into a system of politics that he hated and sacrificed any chance of knowing his son in order to keep him safe.
This is not a case of merely casting a child aside; do not view it in such terms.
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Sounds like a lot of work to keep him safe. Why not just hide him somewhere while having someone raise him knowing what his life will be like? Why hide it from him then, and spring it on him later? You say it's to spare him the stress to keep him in the dark, but suddenly interrupting his life and telling him everything he knows is wrong is just as stressful!
[Yeah when you get him going, it's hard to stop him.]
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The problem with secreting him away is that a Spark -- especially a young Spark -- is very difficult to contain. Their breakthrough into Madness is usually traumatic and always highly explosive. To secret him away in some remote area would be impossible. He would need to be monitored at all times by a highly experienced team in order to best hide his signs of breakthrough, something that would have seen him murdered as a 'witch' in a more rural and perhaps more 'secret' locale.
[... Oh right, Kaiji doesn't know what a Spark is. This argument just fell apart.]
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I've never heard of that, but it sounds like a factor that would change the argument completely.