Just catch up.

    I literally can’t help but appreciate this dialogue, directly after Ragou gets mere slap on the wrist following his capture. Flynn, remember, is the lower-quarter brat that always advises Yuri to keep his composure, then starts the bar fight. He’s ironically the one less in control of his emotions, and because of this, he’s more prepared and alert when he starts to get worked up. He’s emotional despite his err toward logic. Meanwhile Yuri is much more matter-of-fact, to the point where he represses his emotions to his own detriment. It’s fascinating how these two feed off each other, and how because of this bond, Yuri is so willing to sacrifice himself ( metaphorically, of course- I think people can agree he never wanted to kill or sought it, but he believed it to be the best course of action, and one that would propel the Empire, those he cared about, and even Flynn toward the future they all longed for ) in order to keep Flynn on his rails. Because without Yuri? I highly doubt someone like Flynn could. Yuri is the logic and reason that Flynn always veneers himself with. But if he hadn’t had Yuri all of this time, I can definitely see him as a much more angry and confrontational person.

tl;dr      Flynn: always acts out of reason, is ruled by emotion     Yuri: more likely to act off emotion, guises it as logic and reason

Flynn wants to be the justice in this world, but if he doesn’t do it right, he won’t be able to face those who would seek to follow him. And Yuri is so willing to be the dark half to him and lurk in a shadow, even with the very obvious competitive attitude between them. AND FLYNN HATES THAT DON’T EVEN ACT LIKE HE DOESN’T but I will likely come back to that later. Right now I’m just sobbing over how interesting and convoluted their support system is for each other. Because it’s just so clear how close they are and how important they are to each other, and not once do either of them ever reference that. They don’t need to in order to understand each other seamlessly and effortlessly. Just. FRICKIN. BESTIES. I WEEP.

  If he’s above you, you just go even higher. And then-?     “Some day I’ll create a legal order that treats everyone with equality. I have to.”

    It’s like they’ve rehearsed this or something. They just know. 

    Good. And I’ll do things my own way.

       The way Yuri says that definitely catches with Flynn- it’s that first pull on the lure when you know the big fish is snared. He knows the implication immediately, but he’s hoping that Yuri wouldn’t put himself in that sort of position. I’m waiting for the line in the game to come up, the one that Flynn shouts at him that he always chooses the option that is the worst for him, for Yuri that is. Flynn is nothing if not altruistic, but not to the hazardous extent that Yuri is; and that sort of thing terrifies him. That he can lose Yuri not just in livelihood, but in moralistic or emotional ways is petrifying. He doesn’t want his ambition to cost him his friend, much less if it ironically serves him.

    How would you go about punishing the villains that the law can’t touch?         “I’m still trying to figure that out.”

    Please. Never. Forget. That Flynn. Is a lower quarter brat. Too. He is. A. Good. Boy. He Protecc but Also he Attac.

    ON ONE SIDE:         He signed up to join the knights, to pursue higher positions, so that he could protect those who needed protecting, be meddlesome when the time was right, do good for the people struggling right in front of him  ( sound familiar, Yuri? ). So to see that and have to acquiesce to someone who is very clearly in a position of power that is well above his own station and also opposing his alliances is frustrating to his core ( and if you haven’t noticed by now how conflagrant Flynn’s temper can be, subdued and internalized as it may be. . . )

    ON THE OTHER SIDE:            He’s totally right. These guys ditched the Empire. As a knight, he has no obligation to help them, and is in fact spurned for that sort of empathy and kindness that would lead him to help those who have shuffled off his leaders.      But that’s not the kind of person he is. He didn’t join the knights so that he could ignore the plight of those suffering, Guild or otherwise. But normal knights don’t care about the guilds; he can’t fault that the guilds will not offer him concession or understanding because good intentions are about as common as Rhybgaros in this sort of situation. Of course they don’t trust him or want his help. He gets it.

                 But he’s here.                         This is all he has.

    His empathy is simultaneously one of his greatest strengths and most immense weaknesses.

These are the rules of the life we’ve chosen. It’s up to us to make sure those rules don’t get broken. 

    Flynn believes that, too. It’s just so vastly different from a guild mentality.

     “Holding to your beliefs no matter what’s at stake. . . So that’s what a guild is like.”

    It hurts my feelings personally how Flynn and Yuri can both hear that sort of thing and think the exact same thing with such devastatingly different context.

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    “I’m just doing what I can to help. How’s the repair of the barrier blastia going?”

    I may be wrong, but I recall Flynn once telling Yuri that he couldn’t leave well enough alone? Or stay out whenever someone was in trouble right in front of him? How does Flynn think he’s any different when he semi-defies  the Don of the guilds in order to assist? Sure, he’s not fighting the monsters or directly dabbling with affairs that would damage the guild member’s pride, but he’s still intervening in what could be considered diplomatically damaging affairs, if someone wanted to get prickly and political about it. . .  so much for a low profile or being politically inclined, Flynn. Then again, when has he ever been? “A knight be thou for the people” is very obviously his creed in his soul.

    AND THERE HE GOES AGAIN!          “All right, time to clean up the monsters outside the barrier! The guilds won’t be able to complain if we fight monsters outside the city.”