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[a_different_future]

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[sssiiiiirrrrr]

I have never personally, believed that good was something internal. Or that we need to have some secret reserve of it left inside us to do good things.

I think that's what I mean when I say that people don't need to change here. From how you've treated me, indeed, from every single encounter that we've had since you arrived here, you are more than capable of being good to people.

Whatever you think is inside you, whatever you've done. You treat people well.

[a_different_future]

I've also killed people. Many many people.

A third of a graduating class. A man at his wedding. Any criminal practicing his trade in my city.

I don't believe that beings have a right to live, especially not those who are a threat to my life. Or who do things I don't like. I'm assuming that's why I'm an inmate, after all.

[sssiiiiirrrrr]

So have I. Only I killed men who I had no quarrel with at all. Men who were exactly the same as I am, only aligned with a different empire.

I don't hold either of those things as being mutually exclusive with doing good.

Do you regret any of that? Any of the killing you've done?

[a_different_future]

[ It would be so easy to say no. And honestly, it's the truth in so many cases. So many. Most of them. But- ]

One.

But it was necessary.

[sssiiiiirrrrr]

Do you mind telling me who?

[a_different_future]

That depends on why you want to know.

[sssiiiiirrrrr]

Because you're complicated, and I like you. And I wish I understood you better.

[a_different_future]

[ There's a significant pause before the answer comes. ]

My brother.

[sssiiiiirrrrr]

[Welp. That's pretty sad.]

I'm sorry. Even if it was your only option-- Especially if it was your only option.

[a_different_future]

It wasn't my only option. I just didn't realize it at the time.

Then again, it might have been. I can't be sure. I suppose that's why I regret it.

[sssiiiiirrrrr]

It amounts to the same thing, I suppose. In the end.

What was he like?

[a_different_future]

A Luthor.

But I suppose beyond that, he was also brilliant. Intense. Clever at times. Private, always.

[sssiiiiirrrrr]

He sounds...

He sounds a little like you, actually. Intense and clever.

[a_different_future]

We were raised together.