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I've been thinking a lot about how this place could be seen as a second chance. I wanted to ask... what would you do with that second chance? I know a lot of people want to find their way home but if you didn't, what then?

[She knows that it's an intrusive question and that maybe no one will respond but she's curious.]

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Try not to fuck it up.

[That's what she'd do. Or try to. She lost so many friends already. ]

Sometimes that's easier said than done.
What would you change first?

...

don't know.

I can't stop my friends from doing stupid and dangerous shit. They wouldn't be themselves.

So you wouldn't want to change?

I'd want me to change. Maybe.

But I can't expect them to change. I cared about them because they were impulsive idiots.

You love them for who they are.
I think that's wonderful.

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Fucking great.

Till they all died on me.

I'm sorry. No one should lose the people that they love.

Yeah, well. That's how war work,
I guess.

You know what I mean?

[ That is Verity's Time to Change the Subject swerve, because, ugh, she's gonna get all weepy if she starts thinking about Garrus 9 again. ]

A little bit.
I found myself in the middle of a conflict before I arrived here.

It didn't end well.

in the middle how? people picking sides or fighting over you or something?

[Literally anyone's life is more interesting than hers. Well, not really since she's been doing the 'blackmail the most evil robot in the galaxy' thing for the last few years, but that's boring to her. This is new. New is good. ]

Fighting for something. I was trying to stop my brother from being a part of it. He's not the monster that he thinks he is.

Ouch. Sounds tough.

Especially when they give up on themselves. Hard to get them back from that.

[ Looking at you, Ironfist. ]

It is but I still believe in him. I think he'll make the right choice, even if I am not there to guide him.

that's all you can do.

and be ready to pick up the pieces, either way.

....and get revenge.

I've never thought revenge to be helpful. It doesn't make you feel any better.

yeah? Never heard that old 'misery loves company' line?

If they ruin my life, I ruin theirs. Then we can both feel crappy.

It's better than nothing.

But you'll never feel happy that way.

I think you feeling better has more value than making them miserable with you.

how are you supposed to feel better when everyone who made you feel like someone's dead? Getting over that feels like betraying how important they were.

It isn't betraying them. You won't forget them and you won't stop loving the people you lost... but I also think that those people love you and would want you to be happy too.

You should live your life to its fullest, for your loved ones.

that's maybe how they do it where you're from.

it's not how Wreckers do it.

It doesn't matter where you're from. I think that everyone should be forgiven.

You never met a guy named Overlord,
did you?

His whole job was to depopulate entire planets.

PS. He liked it.

It's true. I haven't met him but I have faced my own losses.

I understand wanting to stop him but I also don't think killing someone will make you feel better. Instead you should do it stop help the people that might be hurt by him.

I hope that makes sense.

[ Ugh, stop being reasonable! ]

Up till a few weeks ago *I* was dying. Just wanted to tie up a loose end. Do something worth doing in life.

You know?

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