Board Thread:Roleplaying/@comment-17114085-20170701140145/@comment-7262318-20170716030103

"Oh, calm down, would you?" Delusul sighed. "Don't you have a battle to be fighting in?"

"Why have you come out now?" Vashar demanded.

"I've been away. Thinking," Shobar shrugged. "I've thought alot about the time I was with the Sins."

"Spare me!" Vashar growled. "Let me guess, after all this time, it's finally crossed your tiny, morally corrupted mind that you might have committed a crime beyond forgiveness?"

"That's one way to look at it," Shobar said. "I'm sorry th-"

"Oh, you're sorry!" Vashar laughed. "Well, then everything is forgiven! Everything is okay now! All the lives you took, all the people suffering in Oblivion right now! It's okay, because he's sorry!"

Vashar tightened the grip on his daggers. "Did you think that would absolve you of your atrocities?!"

"No," Shobar shook his head. "I recognize that, what happened during my time with the sins is... unforgivable. I expect to have a long stay in father's fire pits after I have died. And I expect that Stormblade and his companions will try to severe my head from my neck once they realize I'm here. But of all the people on this planet that have suffered at the hands of Shobar, I thought you were the one that deserved the apology the most."

"You self-righteous twit," Vashar approached him. "You expect a stay in fire pits, hm? Then allow me to accomodate you! This, is for-"

"Would you listen to yourself!" Delusul stepped in between the warring brothers, his usual grin turned upside down. "My god, I've never seen someone with their head so far up their own ass!"

"Stay out of this, madman," Vashar warned him. "This is between me and that monster there!"

"That monster is your brother. A brother who audaciously stepped out of hiding and risked death, just to come here and try to prove to you that he's a changed man! But of course, the galliant and holier-than-thou Vashar doesn't see that, oh, nooooo! All his tiny little mind can process is 'Criminal. Kill. Destroy. Vengeance."," Delusul pointed out as monotone as possible.

"That man is reponsible for the murder of countless innocent men and women," Vashar countered. "They're sacrafice demands justice!"

"And so in justice, you would slaughter a man offering his hand in defeat," Delusul arched an eyebrow. "You would chop down the surrendering enemy, for your own peace of mind?"

"It's not for my peace-"

"It most certainly is!" Delusul said. "All I see is a sad little man, trying so desperately hard to prove he's the hero. So hard, in fact, that critical thinking has escaped his mind. Yes, the man behind me... atrocities he has commited, that he admits. In fact, allow me to get this out of the way," Delusul turned to Shobar. "As a man who has looked over the Seven Sins as the funniest display of madness, you were truly an awful person!"

"I was," Shobar agreed.

"However, he sits here in submission. He has given up, realized the error of his ways, and has come to you, not asking for forgiveness, but to deliver his apologies. A real hero would-"

"This could easily be a trick!" Vashar pointed out. "If I had a coin for every man he tricked..."

"It could very well be a trick. But a hero would, allow the man the chance to redeem himself. And the wise hero, would keep a sharp eye on the man seeking redemption, so that he is not stabbed in the back himself. And a brother, would always stand with family. You, on the other hand, have picked the route of a fraude; a man trying so hard to tell himself that he's a hero, that he would rather simply kill the villain and be done with it because he thinks that's what a hero does."

Delusul nodded to Shobar. "I, for one, am willing to give the man a chance. Perhaps we need to re-evaluate the monsters in this situation, hm?"

The two walked off to watch the fight from elsewhere, leaving Vashar alone to contemplate the words that was just spoken to him...