[He's not good at accepting sympathy, though he's arguably better at it than he used to be - thank Sharon for her somewhat normalizing influence, showing him the way back to being a human being instead of a broken machine. So he doesn't freeze up or lash out at Lance for saying what he does, as he might have done a year ago, even though the words make him feel uncomfortable. His mouth presses into a thin line, not quite a frown, and he nods soberly in acknowledgement.]
The world is not a perfect place, Dr. Sweets - I'm sure you know that better than most. People often have to make difficult decisions, especially in extreme circumstances. For example, my father - I don't remember much about him, he was killed when I was very young - but he was a soldier. I imagine he probably had to make some very difficult decisions during the course of the war that eventually claimed his life.
[Like father, like son, perhaps. Mello may not have been a soldier in the traditional sense, and the battle to defeat Kira may not have been the kind of war most people would understand as such, but it's not such a stretch for Mello to view it this way. He sits back in the chair, arms folded over his chest, and shrugs again.]
Some causes are more important than individual lives. I recognized that in the grand scheme, I was ultimately an expendable piece on the board. No one else would have been able to do what I'd planned. No one else could have done it.
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Date: 2017-09-26 09:27 pm (UTC)The world is not a perfect place, Dr. Sweets - I'm sure you know that better than most. People often have to make difficult decisions, especially in extreme circumstances. For example, my father - I don't remember much about him, he was killed when I was very young - but he was a soldier. I imagine he probably had to make some very difficult decisions during the course of the war that eventually claimed his life.
[Like father, like son, perhaps. Mello may not have been a soldier in the traditional sense, and the battle to defeat Kira may not have been the kind of war most people would understand as such, but it's not such a stretch for Mello to view it this way. He sits back in the chair, arms folded over his chest, and shrugs again.]
Some causes are more important than individual lives. I recognized that in the grand scheme, I was ultimately an expendable piece on the board. No one else would have been able to do what I'd planned. No one else could have done it.