Jayce opens his mouth to argue but then closes it. Of course he could, technically. But he was never going to. He would have destroyed the Hexcore as Viktor requested if the worse hadn't happened to the Council, when he was faced with Viktor's broken body and the immediacy of his death. "I had to," he says hollowly. He doesn't know who he did it for. For both of them? Viktor told him to let him die and if it was a slow but eventual death, he would have allowed that. It was different in the moment.
He steps away from Viktor and sits down heavily. Heimerdinger can't be right about this. All his warnings were wrong, right? "It didn't consume you, it healed you." Viktor's proof of that right now, the damage done to his body from the attack and from his illness is gone. He clings to the notes like a lifeline. It's difficult to tell himself he did the right thing when Viktor is now burdened with being permanently combined with something he wanted destroyed. There's no going backward on his choice.
"You're ... you. It's still you. Maybe the Hexcore was destructive but you aren't. Maybe you can use its power now for good." Jayce needs to believe that this can be good. That he didn't just mutilate and torture his best friend because of his own selfishness, because this can be worked out, it has to be. "We can go over the notes."
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Date: 2024-12-22 10:07 pm (UTC)He steps away from Viktor and sits down heavily. Heimerdinger can't be right about this. All his warnings were wrong, right? "It didn't consume you, it healed you." Viktor's proof of that right now, the damage done to his body from the attack and from his illness is gone. He clings to the notes like a lifeline. It's difficult to tell himself he did the right thing when Viktor is now burdened with being permanently combined with something he wanted destroyed. There's no going backward on his choice.
"You're ... you. It's still you. Maybe the Hexcore was destructive but you aren't. Maybe you can use its power now for good." Jayce needs to believe that this can be good. That he didn't just mutilate and torture his best friend because of his own selfishness, because this can be worked out, it has to be. "We can go over the notes."