"The statues in there had some kind of effect." How, he isn't entirely sure, and that is disturbing enough on its own, even without taking the aftermath into account.
"When I touched one, everything changed, drastically. My thoughts, my personality. My perception of others. The views I have, I would have seen as repugnant." Had seen, when suggested in the words and outrage of others. Enough to be worth injuring and killing over. He meets her eyes as he speaks.
"On Krypton, I was an outlier in many ways. I rose in prominence in the Science Guild quickly, even though I was politically unorthodox." Now, he wonders at the fact that he was even allowed to reach the position he had in the first place; at no point had he ever feared voicing his opinions. How much of it was due to the standing of his family he would never know. "I was not as dismissive of new concepts or potential alternatives as our society as a whole was." And yet, having found himself here, he's been challenged unexpectedly- liberal and openminded for Krypton is hardly the same as liberal and openminded for Earth, or Keeliai.
"There were others who also disagreed with the council, but from the other direction. They felt the council was not going far enough. I became what I imagine was their ideal." And yet, he cannot see Zod undertaking the same actions, being willing to kill and wantonly destroy in the name of Kryptonian superiority, even though he knows what the coup must have resulted in.
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"When I touched one, everything changed, drastically. My thoughts, my personality. My perception of others. The views I have, I would have seen as repugnant." Had seen, when suggested in the words and outrage of others. Enough to be worth injuring and killing over. He meets her eyes as he speaks.
"On Krypton, I was an outlier in many ways. I rose in prominence in the Science Guild quickly, even though I was politically unorthodox." Now, he wonders at the fact that he was even allowed to reach the position he had in the first place; at no point had he ever feared voicing his opinions. How much of it was due to the standing of his family he would never know. "I was not as dismissive of new concepts or potential alternatives as our society as a whole was." And yet, having found himself here, he's been challenged unexpectedly- liberal and openminded for Krypton is hardly the same as liberal and openminded for Earth, or Keeliai.
"There were others who also disagreed with the council, but from the other direction. They felt the council was not going far enough. I became what I imagine was their ideal." And yet, he cannot see Zod undertaking the same actions, being willing to kill and wantonly destroy in the name of Kryptonian superiority, even though he knows what the coup must have resulted in.