[030: Video]
Jul. 19th, 2011 16:28![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shortsightedlove[Private to Seven]
So? Are you interested in helping now or not, Doctor? [Someone is grumpy.]
And... You've expressed regret for some of the things you've done before. How do you deal with it?
So? Are you interested in helping now or not, Doctor? [Someone is grumpy.]
And... You've expressed regret for some of the things you've done before. How do you deal with it?
[Private]
Date: 19/07/2011 20:21 (UTC)...And once the regret starts, it never goes away. There's always the pitiful excuse we all use when we die- oh, that was my last regeneration. This one's better. But it never ebbs. So I usually try to make other people better, to counter the damage that I've done.
[Though in the process, he's proven how wrong he was.]
[Private]
Date: 19/07/2011 20:30 (UTC)That's even less helpful. [Pout.] There has to be something better, I'm tired of it.
[Private]
Date: 19/07/2011 20:35 (UTC)If you felt good about these things you'd be tempted to make the same mistakes again.
[Private]
Date: 19/07/2011 20:37 (UTC)That's quite impossible. As such it serves no purpose at all.
[Private]
Date: 19/07/2011 20:41 (UTC)I just said that the discomfort does serve a purpose, in serving you from wronging others again at your whim. You've never listened to me. Maybe if you felt bad for something for once you'd not drive your ad-vvvffffnnn [He makes a face. He didn't like where that was going.] Never mind. It does serve a purpose. You're just ignoring it because you don't want to be wrong. [Good emphasis on that "r" there.]
[Private]
Date: 19/07/2011 20:46 (UTC)Oh, nonsense. It has a rather negative effect on my judgement, and to make that particular mistake again, you'd have to revive someone who's been dead for a billion years. I highly doubt that is going to happen. Aside from the fact that I wouldn't do it anyway, because the circumstances have changed quite a bit. [He frowns at that almost-adviser. You're not, hmph.]
[Private]
Date: 19/07/2011 20:52 (UTC)What negative affect has it had on your judgement? Besides realizing that you might have wronged someone? And there are other ways to wrong people.
[Private]
Date: 19/07/2011 20:57 (UTC)'Wronging' more people [He mostly regrets hurting Omega. Who cares about Narvin and Kay.] is quite negative, I would say. And this are very special circumstances and happenings.
[Private]
Date: 19/07/2011 21:09 (UTC)No. Other than not caring about the person you've wronged, there's nothing that can be done. Though be warned whoever you don't care about has no obligation to feel concern for you, and when it's the whole universe it tends to catch up with you.
[Private]
Date: 19/07/2011 21:15 (UTC)[And now he rolls his eyes.] He's dead, that's the problem. He can't care anyway. [And was that a reference to the Final Sanction? He won't honour that with a response.] And there has to be something that can be done. It's only making matters worse.
[Private]
Date: 19/07/2011 21:20 (UTC)Rassilon, there's quite literally nothing you can do except be a better man than you were, and find some satisfaction in doing well by someone.
[Private]
Date: 19/07/2011 21:25 (UTC)But it's making me worse. Without this, I wouldn't have bothered with Narvin and we could have avoided that whole mess.