It's nice to see Viktor in here, it wasn't a place most people visited him often, although that was part of the design. He liked the quiet of creating their schematics and bringing them back to the lab in a grand reveal. They could technically have other people make things for them, but Jayce preferred doing as much of it himself as he could. The Hexgates of course was more of a huge many-people project, their design turned into a massive scale, but when it's their inventions, he trusts his own hands better.
Jayce always thinks of his father in this space. It is such a close association and for good reason. And yet, he is sharing a little on purpose. He smiles faintly and runs his fingers along one of the tool desks. "You would have liked him." And Viktor doesn't like a lot of people, so Jayce knows what he's talking about. "He cared so much about this city and the people in it. He wanted to put better tools in their hands, for a better world." It is not that difficult to see how Jayce's love and respect for him also became his own version of that same drive.
He picks up a wrench, twirling it in his hand, looking at it instead of Viktor. "He made being good look easy." When Jayce found it honestly so much more difficult to know what being a good man was. He tried, he thought about it a lot, but he doesn't feel like a good one now. His father would have been annoyed by his fame-seeking, rather than impressed.
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Date: 2022-04-05 01:55 pm (UTC)Jayce always thinks of his father in this space. It is such a close association and for good reason. And yet, he is sharing a little on purpose. He smiles faintly and runs his fingers along one of the tool desks. "You would have liked him." And Viktor doesn't like a lot of people, so Jayce knows what he's talking about. "He cared so much about this city and the people in it. He wanted to put better tools in their hands, for a better world." It is not that difficult to see how Jayce's love and respect for him also became his own version of that same drive.
He picks up a wrench, twirling it in his hand, looking at it instead of Viktor. "He made being good look easy." When Jayce found it honestly so much more difficult to know what being a good man was. He tried, he thought about it a lot, but he doesn't feel like a good one now. His father would have been annoyed by his fame-seeking, rather than impressed.