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Nor well enough to notice the gaping moral vacuum where his basic decency should be?

[ Tell us what you really think, Pietro. ]

Or does that not bother you overly much?

[ she isn't going to protest the description — it's just that anderson's standards are perhaps slightly different than those of most people and erik is not guilty of any crime aboard the tranquility that she is aware of.

nor is she a judge, here. ]

he's not completely immoral

[ not beyond redemption, perhaps. ]

Yes, I am sure that distinction will make all the difference when he is done liberating the ship from its human oppressors.

Is that how you know him?

It is complicated.

I have time to listen.

I do not have the patience for you to do so.

I know him as a madman, that is the important part. If he is occasionally successful in convincing others he has the best interests of mutantkind at heart, I am happy to dispel that illusion.

I'm not convinced of it, nor has he tried to convince me. I think he has his own best interest at heart.

Good, then you have half a brain.

[ Compliments: not Pietro's forte. ]

He is younger than when I know him. It may simply be that he has not tried to convince anyone yet.

[ more than half a brain, thank you. she also believes in the presumption of innocence, despite how fucked the justice system in mega city one is. ]

So you're judging him for a crime that has not yet been committed.

I am judging him for a personality flaw I am not so naive as to overlook twice.

[ So... essentially yes. ]

A personality flaw that may not have manifested yet. Vigilance is certainly appropriate, but judging him may not be.

I will judge who I like.

When he has done anything at all to indicate he is not the man I know, perhaps I will reconsider.

[ And perhaps not. ]

That's your prerogative.

( her money is on "not". )

[ –Except that he was trying to convince her, wasn't he. (Pietro you're not very good at this.) ]

When he disappoints you, do not say I did not warn you.

I won't.
But I can and will both handle myself and form my own opinion.

( for what it's worth, her first conversation with erik had her stating that in her world, she would have executed him for his crimes. )

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