You mentioned that you headcanoned Varian with having Anger Issues. How do you think that would pop up and impact team radicals journey in Vat7k?
well, first of all, i don’t think he would let himself be visibly angry.
maybe, if he was only traveling with hugo and yong, we would see a more authentic varian. however, nuru is there. princess nuru. and i’m afraid our boy has a lot of princess-related trauma.
(said coronan princess is also traumatized, but… still. it’s a big can of worms.)
nuru would know varian as “corona’s royal engineer”. maybe she even ran into him at a very politically-motivated ball before this trip of theirs. either way, with rapunzel & co’s attempts to shove the “mad wizard of old corona” stuff under the rug, nuru would have heard rumors, at most.
varian wants to keep it that way.
this would put him in a state of suppressed anger. he’s constantly trying to make nuru feel comfortable without projecting on her, trying to be a good mentor for yong without projecting on him, and trying to deal with hugo without projecting on him.
also, hugo! hugo, who can see the signs of a former criminal! hugo, who curses up a storm in casual conversation (which reminds varian of himself in his separatist days). hugo, who believes varian is nothing but a goody two-shoes (and part of varian is itching to prove him wrong).
varian has a lot on his plate, and i can see him going a couple months into their trip before he just blows up at the group.
maybe it’s yelling. maybe he storms off for a full day and comes back still clenching his jaw.
maybe the events of this oneshot series happen. the group finds out about varian’s past, and he gets to let off a lot of steam:
An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works
(rest in peace to those twenty-nine people, by the way.)
with the minor outcomes, the group begins to understand varian better. they reassure him that he’s not going to be arrested or excluded, or anything of the sort, if he lets himself feel. they tell him that they want to be his friend.
with the more major outcomes… well, they do their best, and varian appreciates it.
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