To lose and to struggle—that changes people. And not always for the better. You see the true mettle of a man after he's seen suffering, and how he chooses to conduct himself after.
[ And he'd say they've all seen suffering. ]
It isn't about a pedestal. I am not saying you could not disappoint me, or that you are perhaps a paragon of a man. [ he doesn't know him well enough to say. ] But... have you never wanted to believe in the best of people, Guy?
Your reasoning is sound. I don't think anything I said truly clashes with that. It's your open willingness to believe in someone that I would call into question here.
I'm not saying that you shouldn't be giving people the benefit of the doubt, or think that they can pull through things despite how they might have acted in the past. [He thinks of Luke, of how he'd chosen to see that boy to the ends of the earth despite his mistakes.] But there needs to be a balance.
I would say I have been amicable to you, and I would say that what conversations we have had have been pleasant. But where do you draw the line between having belief in a person's ability to change, and being ignorant of what they might truly be doing because of that belief?
[It's less of a statement of implication and more a curiosity, trying to prod Dimitri for his reasonings. They're still not much more than strangers. For the prince to claim trust in a man he barely knows, while touching, is still idealistic enough to be questionable.]
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[ He isn't praising Guy necessarily, but. ]
To lose and to struggle—that changes people. And not always for the better. You see the true mettle of a man after he's seen suffering, and how he chooses to conduct himself after.
[ And he'd say they've all seen suffering. ]
It isn't about a pedestal. I am not saying you could not disappoint me, or that you are perhaps a paragon of a man. [ he doesn't know him well enough to say. ] But... have you never wanted to believe in the best of people, Guy?
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That's not it.
Your reasoning is sound. I don't think anything I said truly clashes with that. It's your open willingness to believe in someone that I would call into question here.
I'm not saying that you shouldn't be giving people the benefit of the doubt, or think that they can pull through things despite how they might have acted in the past. [He thinks of Luke, of how he'd chosen to see that boy to the ends of the earth despite his mistakes.] But there needs to be a balance.
I would say I have been amicable to you, and I would say that what conversations we have had have been pleasant. But where do you draw the line between having belief in a person's ability to change, and being ignorant of what they might truly be doing because of that belief?
[It's less of a statement of implication and more a curiosity, trying to prod Dimitri for his reasonings. They're still not much more than strangers. For the prince to claim trust in a man he barely knows, while touching, is still idealistic enough to be questionable.]