[ He gives the boy's shoulder a comforting squeeze. ]
No, you must never forget what was done to her. Your history lessons will have taught you about the crimes of humanity, the wars, the exploitation, how eagerly they consume any resources they can access, without any thought given to balance, to conservation. To the lives they snuff out.
[ Vash had told him about it, after he'd awoken from his terror-induced coma. How Rem had confessed to her role in Tessla's death, and how Vash had decided to forgive her, and how Knives, too, should put aside the brutal murder of their sister. He hadn't understood then how Vash could be so wrong, and after a hundred and fifty years, the only answer that makes any sense is that Vash was so desperate for love and approval that he'd forgive any pain, any hurt, so long as he was coddled and cherished.
He will forgive Knives his actions, so long as he can be made to feel loved. ]
It's different, isn't it? To read about atrocities committed on a planet millions of miles away and many years ago, and to see those same atrocities with your own eyes, committed against someone just like you? Someone who could have been you, or your brother.
[ It was a horrible thing for children to have seen. Horrible. ]
Never accept what happened to Tessla. Let her murder remind you always of the way humans treat those they have power over.
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No, you must never forget what was done to her. Your history lessons will have taught you about the crimes of humanity, the wars, the exploitation, how eagerly they consume any resources they can access, without any thought given to balance, to conservation. To the lives they snuff out.
[ Vash had told him about it, after he'd awoken from his terror-induced coma. How Rem had confessed to her role in Tessla's death, and how Vash had decided to forgive her, and how Knives, too, should put aside the brutal murder of their sister. He hadn't understood then how Vash could be so wrong, and after a hundred and fifty years, the only answer that makes any sense is that Vash was so desperate for love and approval that he'd forgive any pain, any hurt, so long as he was coddled and cherished.
He will forgive Knives his actions, so long as he can be made to feel loved. ]
It's different, isn't it? To read about atrocities committed on a planet millions of miles away and many years ago, and to see those same atrocities with your own eyes, committed against someone just like you? Someone who could have been you, or your brother.
[ It was a horrible thing for children to have seen. Horrible. ]
Never accept what happened to Tessla. Let her murder remind you always of the way humans treat those they have power over.