#t:bea

[dariodanoite]

dario ↱ bea

Dario: Are you up?

[catferro]

txxt ; bea n' the harbs

BEA: I’m about to get real soft so bear with me.

HARVEY: You can tell me anything :-)

[lastoneout]

Forgiveness...can you imagine?

I will likely come back to this and clean it up when I get the chance. 

[dariodanoite]

dario ↱ b boat girl ?

Dario: Hey- had a great date. Wanna go out again sometime soon?

Dario: Is your 16 year old self satisfied now.

[lastoneout]

So I don’t think that pointing out that Varian is a child is the same as saying that he shouldn’t be held accountable for his actions or that he is innocent or doesn’t know what he’s doing.  It's just that there are a lot of external factors to consider and that they should be brought into consideration when deciding what he ‘deserves’, and one of those factors is that he is a child.

Varian is doing a lot of really bad things and he should definitely be held accountable for them and face judgement/punishment. But even in real life, when children commit crimes, they aren’t tried as adults, and are held to a different standard than adults. It is because children are not fully developed and do not always have the most nuanced sense of morality or critical thinking skills.

And the real issue is that Varian is being held to a harsher standard of morals than his adult counterparts.

Varian is by no means innocent, but he is a victim. He has faced neglect and loss and betrayal and had to deal with that all on his own. Even an adult wouldn’t handel that well, but Varian is a child and children behave and see the world very, very differently than adults do, and so they cannot be judged by the same standards. Especially when they don’t have help to guide them down the right path.

Handling grief and trauma as an adult with support is hard, handling it alone as a child is so much harder. 

And even then, the King and Rapunzel are shown as being worthy of forgiveness when they make mistakes that hurt people, that was one of the main morals of the episode, and they are adults. They also faced little to no real punishment for their actions, so why should Varian, a child who has nothing, not be offered the same consideration?

So no, Varian being a child does not mean he should not be punished for what he did, he did BAD things and even children should be held accountable for their actions. But it seems unfair to judge him harshly when and the bottom of things he was a lost, desperate child who wasn’t thinking clearly, and when the two adults are being forgiven easily for doing bad things in their desperation. Varian deserves a second chance as much as the King did. Denying it to him is hypocritical at best and practically unforgivable at its worst.

(And for the record I will defend the idea that a child cannot b held to the same standard of morality that an adult can. Even a 14/15 year old. Their brains don’t work the same way and they don’t have the same experience and knowledge to guide their actions. They cannot be expected to behave as an adult when they aren’t one.) 

[lastoneout]

I swear it has NOTHING to do with Varian I just really need to get my hands on a male cover of No Good Deed preferably one that sounds like it was sung by a teenage boy I swear it’s nothing I just need it

[lastoneout]

I’m gonna make a ‘leave brittney alone’ style video but it’s just gonna be five full minutes of me sobbing about Varian

[olivetheotherwampus]

From Bea [TXT]: Thank you. I'll bring you a donut later. Maybe I'll make you a waffle out of donuts? :))

[TXT MSG]: YASSSSS! ❤️ 🍩 [TXT MSG]: you can be my waffle-wife