vrdantwind: (But never dreamed)
Claude von Riegan ([personal profile] vrdantwind) wrote 2020-12-26 07:20 am (UTC)

I mean, I obviously can't speak for your father or Ingrid. But I have to ask...the line between respecting Glenn's determination to protect Dimitri, whether as a kid or the future king or both, and the line between veneration of some chivalric sacrifice...it's a pretty fine one, isn't it? [Claude glances at him.] Are you sure it's the latter they're all wrapped up in, and not the former? Who knows, maybe they think the strength and integrity he had, to do what he did, came from those knightly ideals.

[He looks up at the sky again.] Although I could definitely understand being angry if you think that robs Glenn of the credit he deserves for being a good and honorable man at his core, and that his being a knight didn't have a whole lot to do with it. If you think he would've made the exact same calls and fought and died for what he knew was right, whether he was a knight or just a civilian bystander. Then it might feel like people are crediting the wrong thing - that they're just focusing on the fact that he was a knight and acting as though that's what made him admirable. It implies that to be a knight is to be admirable, as though it's not a person's own qualities that define them.

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