Yes. It was a matter of necessity. They took his beloved Rosalie away, and he needed all the help that he could get before he became a lovelorn lump on the floor.
Like I said. Based on his deranged treatment of you in your timeline, I don't mind kicking his ass slightly in mine if I ever go back.
But he's mostly just an overeager fool trying to look like a villain. He just got too caught up in it, and you paid the price. He'll kick himself for it later.
He kept calling me a failure, but he said that I was his only success...
[talk about mixed messages. it's hard to know how to feel about him, knowing how he changed his whole personality so quickly, but.
but that's still the person mathis recalls taking care of him. being there for him. holding back tears, saying he didn't know what he would do if something happened to mathis, who was all that he had left-- even if he's also the person who told him he's only an expendable guinea pig.]
[ and yet when scien says it, it lacks fire. it lacks bite. jean is right that scien doesn't bother himself with a lot of crazy things that happen in their shitty little island, but he also will take interest in equally random endeavors.
the claudes aren't bad. they're entertaining, and useful. ]
You don't have to forgive him. He really went off the rails with you.
But from my perspective, you're living happily together now, three years later. [ a beat ] Well. Happily is a push. Claude One works for me now.
I did. He was a lovesick hobbyist who managed to go from a threadbare science education to creating his own little homunculus, motivated by nothing but deranged obsession.
So basically he makes a great assistant in the Institute.
[ this is such a wild thing to say after watching the memory where jean tortures mathis and goes full route villain, but also.
Everyone still working at the Institute is a bit insane, so.
[ okay directeur ]
Anyway, when you get back to your timeline, if you have any opportunity to send a message to the Institute, tell my idiotic younger self to check the soil.
At first, he will probably say something like "what an inconceivable idea, stop wasting my time" and then after the initial prideful deflection, he will realize that he has not in fact done that test. Then, reason should be able to win out over arrogance so that he actually does the damn thing.
If you need additional help convincing him, bring Courrune.
[ scien, actively covering for lucas being bourreau and that reveal was the first time that scien was in a room with him and mathis together: ] It doesn't matter.
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Yes. It was a matter of necessity. They took his beloved Rosalie away, and he needed all the help that he could get before he became a lovelorn lump on the floor.
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[a little bit stunned. it's... strange to hear him speak that way about jean, after what mathis came here from. strange to imagine him that way.]
I'm a bit surprised that you would help him...
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But he's mostly just an overeager fool trying to look like a villain. He just got too caught up in it, and you paid the price. He'll kick himself for it later.
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[...]
He kept calling me a failure, but he said that I was his only success...
[talk about mixed messages. it's hard to know how to feel about him, knowing how he changed his whole personality so quickly, but.
but that's still the person mathis recalls taking care of him. being there for him. holding back tears, saying he didn't know what he would do if something happened to mathis, who was all that he had left-- even if he's also the person who told him he's only an expendable guinea pig.]
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[ and yet when scien says it, it lacks fire. it lacks bite. jean is right that scien doesn't bother himself with a lot of crazy things that happen in their shitty little island, but he also will take interest in equally random endeavors.
the claudes aren't bad. they're entertaining, and useful. ]
You don't have to forgive him. He really went off the rails with you.
But from my perspective, you're living happily together now, three years later. [ a beat ] Well. Happily is a push. Claude One works for me now.
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[what in the what]
You hired him, after...?
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So basically he makes a great assistant in the Institute.
[ this is such a wild thing to say after watching the memory where jean tortures mathis and goes full route villain, but also.
scien thinks he's hysterical ]
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[
beginning to consider whether the optimal solution here may in fact be letting this timeline override his because good lord]
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[ okay directeur ]
Anyway, when you get back to your timeline, if you have any opportunity to send a message to the Institute, tell my idiotic younger self to check the soil.
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[ do not make me write virche science i don't want to you can't make me ]
Everything should be resolved once that gets revealed.
[ or that scien might try to plant ceres into the ground. idk. ]
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...um, and it won't be a problem if I tell that to another you...?
[considering this,]
Will he believe me?
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If you need additional help convincing him, bring Courrune.
[ scien's blorbo in every life... ]
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[this is still an 'if' situation but we'll see.]
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[ and that is god's decree ]
I will not let you meet your end here.
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[there's a very good chance he won't win, if he's attacked.]
... I'll- I'll keep training.
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That is what I want the entire island to learn, so best start with you.
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Don't forget the teacher.
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We remember things differently.
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[somewhere adolphe is sneezing]
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[ scien, actively covering for lucas being bourreau and that reveal was the first time that scien was in a room with him and mathis together: ] It doesn't matter.
My words stand.
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[scien is really here with the brain problems squad huh]
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