"Two reasons," he starts, but boy he's starting to think he needs something stronger than a cigarette if this conversation continues down this particular direction.
"One is that, you have to remember, he's not one of most people. I remember hearing this stuff as a kid, it's still repeated all the time. He's two years older than me, and he had more time to hear more of it and internalize it. He's smart, I'm sure he doesn't literally believe every detail, and we may not be nobility anymore, but he'd have no problem killing a kid just to make sure there won't be problems down the line. Especially because part of the myth is that some day they're going to rise back up and take revenge."
And as much as Rosinante doesn't want to believe in stories, he not-so-secretly hopes that part is actually true. Vengeance isn't necessarily justice, and he's no revolutionary, but the world would be a lot better off without Marie Geoise and its people, and that's simple fact.
"Two. My brother is a psychopath. That part's important. His goals, which it sounds like were all thankfully thwarted, involved rearranging all of the underground trade networks to supply him with unlimited funds and power, taking over the kingdom our ancestors used to rule just because he wants it back but also because it would give him a legitimate position in the government, and beyond that I'm certain he was hoping to position himself to go even higher than that on some vengeance quest of his own. So a minor risk, like Law? He wouldn't even flinch at having him killed, or even doing it personally, partly just to not have to worry about it later, and partly because he probably gets off on the notion that one of them would have died at his hands in defiance of the myths, like that proves anything."
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"One is that, you have to remember, he's not one of most people. I remember hearing this stuff as a kid, it's still repeated all the time. He's two years older than me, and he had more time to hear more of it and internalize it. He's smart, I'm sure he doesn't literally believe every detail, and we may not be nobility anymore, but he'd have no problem killing a kid just to make sure there won't be problems down the line. Especially because part of the myth is that some day they're going to rise back up and take revenge."
And as much as Rosinante doesn't want to believe in stories, he not-so-secretly hopes that part is actually true. Vengeance isn't necessarily justice, and he's no revolutionary, but the world would be a lot better off without Marie Geoise and its people, and that's simple fact.
"Two. My brother is a psychopath. That part's important. His goals, which it sounds like were all thankfully thwarted, involved rearranging all of the underground trade networks to supply him with unlimited funds and power, taking over the kingdom our ancestors used to rule just because he wants it back but also because it would give him a legitimate position in the government, and beyond that I'm certain he was hoping to position himself to go even higher than that on some vengeance quest of his own. So a minor risk, like Law? He wouldn't even flinch at having him killed, or even doing it personally, partly just to not have to worry about it later, and partly because he probably gets off on the notion that one of them would have died at his hands in defiance of the myths, like that proves anything."