#vyren

my character vyren in a star trek au :3

alrighty!!

this is vyren! petal has a super cool name! i heard bloom was a deer hybrid which is so snazzy of petal! blooms other interests include flowers, especially orchids, which is awesome! i bet petal is really good at keeping plants alive. bloom might get along with my headmate lacey, she also likes flowers! i hope vyren has a really good day and knows how cool bloom is.

Vyren is like Anakin Skywalker. They both start out from sympathetic places but adopt horrible attitudes and pursue horrible methods of achieving their goals, never realizing that the ends are made of the means.

Vyren wants to help his friend, who became the king and made him his chief advisor. Vyren wants to help their kingdom survive a famine.

But while I’m not convinced that Dark Magic is as evil as the writers make it out to be, it is Vyren’s obsession. Part of the reason he fears and hates the Xadians so much seems to be that he wants a constant supply of Xadian magic for fuel and the Xadians are standing in the way. Case in point, the Magma Titan he wanted to kill to solve the famine, and Storm’s response.

Vyren isn’t interested in finding sustainable solutions that don’t involve conquering Xadia. He thinks about the people who die from hardship in the human lands, but ignores the toll on human life that his warmongering costs. But at least humans dying from the hardship of developing the human lands would lead to future prosperity even without Xadia.

Dark Magic is Vyren’s solution to every problem, except when his solution is to lie, steal, coerce, or murder.

He is one of the most intelligent and creative men in the world, and he knows it, and he lets it go to his head. He assumes that no one else can understand the world as well as he does, let alone better.

What’s worse is that he’s also frightfully persuasive. He’s just well-meaning enough to be sincere enough to fool himself and other people into thinking that he’s got everyone’s best interests at heart, when he actually doesn’t try to understand what other people really want at all. He just imagines what he thinks they want, and because he’s the smartest man in the land, he must be right, and because he can convince people he’s right, he must be right.

Vyren is not intentionally evil. That’s what makes him so tragic.

He is a fool. A well-meaning fool who never learned humility, trust, or true empathy.