#raintalks

1.It’sbeen long since I’ve watched season 1 too, so I relied mostly onthe Arrowverse wiki to get info = if anyone remembers better pleasetell me if I’m wrong.

The wiki states multiple times that Mick has been brainwashed, andthat the team believed that “they could undo the Time Masters’training and get their old team member back”. This the first timehe becomes Chronos, when, as you state, he wanted revenge. He surewants to kill everybody, but he doesn’t kill Snart (even if he hasmutliple occasions) despite him being the one who left him alone andunconscious (and hence at the mercy of the Time Masters, who torturedhim for years and years, since time at the Vanishing Point worksdifferently); I know that his relationship with Len is different fromthe others, but if all Chronos wanted was revenge I’m sure he wouldhave acted differently.

The second time the Time Masters brainwash Mick, he resists thetorture by thinking about the team, as he confesses to Ray some timelater. Again, if revenge against the Legends was all he wanted,becoming someone designed to kill them would have been much easierthan resisting the brainwashing.

So yeah, I’m not 100% sure Mick was consciously trying to killthe Legends in season 1 (season 2 is a whole other matter). This iswhy I think that when he saw Neron!Ray attack the Waverider hethought about killing Neron, even if it meant to kill Ray. Mick haslearned how to live with the guilt of killing people, Ray hasn’t.He knows that when/if Ray comes back he won’t be Ray-of-SunshinePalmer anymore, because he would have to live with the guilt of whathe did to the team (and to many other people, depending on what areNeron’s plans). This is why I think that Mick was kind of ok aboutRay dying: because he kind of is already dead, in a way; and becausehe doesn’t want him to go through what he went though.