[maybe a little amused, though, until Jude moves on to his question
aw man does he say 'because people are bullshit and killed my family'
no the last time he tried that he made the mistake of trying it on Flynn Scifo who was entirely sympathetic and made him feel uncomfortable and like a dick for laying it on like that
also this is Jude and bluntly laying tragic backstory down doesn't seem to work that well
work that well on what, Vern? what are you trying to accomplish here? he asks himself
gods, he just doesn't know. three years on an aborted vengeance quest and it's still huge and fraught and complex in his own head but at the same time, it doesn't strictly affect anyone here as far as he knows, he might be wrong but he doesn't think anyone else here is from Midgard as he knows it, and with everyone but Geir that makes his personal situation something more distant, something examined rather than lived, and from a distance...
well, from a distance, it kind of looks like melodrama, doesn't it.
...
okay yeah maybe he'd better give a more nuanced answer]
...because the world's system is broken where I come from. Men want to join the gods in their halls, so they fight, and fight, to get there. I've never known a truce in my life or our immediate history that didn't last more than a year or two before someone stomped on it again, and the wars ruin everything they pass through. So it seemed better to...
Well, to start over. "After Ragnarok, the world resurfaces renewed and fertile."
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[maybe a little amused, though, until Jude moves on to his question
aw man does he say 'because people are bullshit and killed my family'
no the last time he tried that he made the mistake of trying it on Flynn Scifo who was entirely sympathetic and made him feel uncomfortable and like a dick for laying it on like that
also this is Jude and bluntly laying tragic backstory down doesn't seem to work that well
work that well on what, Vern? what are you trying to accomplish here? he asks himself
gods, he just doesn't know. three years on an aborted vengeance quest and it's still huge and fraught and complex in his own head but at the same time, it doesn't strictly affect anyone here as far as he knows, he might be wrong but he doesn't think anyone else here is from Midgard as he knows it, and with everyone but Geir that makes his personal situation something more distant, something examined rather than lived, and from a distance...
well, from a distance, it kind of looks like melodrama, doesn't it.
...
okay yeah maybe he'd better give a more nuanced answer]
...because the world's system is broken where I come from. Men want to join the gods in their halls, so they fight, and fight, to get there. I've never known a truce in my life or our immediate history that didn't last more than a year or two before someone stomped on it again, and the wars ruin everything they pass through. So it seemed better to...
Well, to start over. "After Ragnarok, the world resurfaces renewed and fertile."