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[When the video turns on, viewers are presented with a Henry surrounded by leaves, with the summer sun peeking in through the branches -- seems he's decided to climb a tree for this broadcast, or maybe he was just chilling here anyway. In either case, the expression on his face is uncharacteristically somber.]

Heya. So... this is going to be, like, Serious Business Time. [He glances off somewhere into the foliage. Honestly, it seems like he's not totally comfortable with the idea of Serious Business Time himself.] I've been kinda mulling stuff over, and I wanna hear all your responses! [The smile flickers back for a couple of seconds, but it's gone just as fast.]

What do you think makes someone a bad person? I mean, just for you, like I said. ...Traits or whatever are fine.

…

Yep.

[And that’s how the video ends.]

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Ugh... That's kind of hard. I mean, like, a few years ago, I would have gone with what the DWMA- where I went to school- taught. "If a human being does this certain thing, they're bad, and you have to put them down no matter what." Yeah?

But... It turns out that the world is way more complicated than that. People are way more complicated than that.

Like, there was this one person... They did all the bad stuff that qualified them for getting their ass beat, but, it wasn't really their fault. They'd just been... forced into it, for years probably, and couldn't get out of it even when they tried. But they weren't bad.

And there was one of my best friends- she was this kind of race that for years the DWMA had fought against, but she didn't want to hurt anybody. She just... wanted to be safe, and wanted to have friends, stuff everyone wants. Me and my other friends, we had to find her again, and after that there were still people who gave her shit... But she held through it all like a fuckin' champ.

It's a really tough question... I don't think you can put it down to just what kind of traits people have.

Um...

[Okay, wow, that's a lot of grey areas that Henry was not prepared for. Kirikou's examples made sense as contained instances, kinda, just a lot of misunderstanding. But as a whole, he looks totally lost.]

So, like... there are no bad people, is what you're saying? Or. How do you figure out if someone's bad, if not with traits? I don't get it...

Man, I don't even know... Things start getting fuzzy as hell when you start hitting that gray area.

Maybe... Taking things to extremes? Like, the friend I talked about? Most of her race was big into destruction, but too much destruction and just ruining things for other people, well, of course that's gonna cause problems.

But once, like, an alternative to that came up, most of them hopped on board! Because it turns out it's really shitty being "the bad guy" and having everyone come after you all the time. There were still some people who didn't care about that at all, 'tho. Like, they still wanted to keep doing what they were doing, and they didn't care WHO they hurt while they were doing that.

Does that make sense?

...Yeah. I guess. [He nods. Another case in which total strangers outline him as an example of the morally bankrupt. His tone was dull before, but somehow it becomes even more so.] So the ones who just kinda carried on carrying on were the worst of the bunch.

Taking things to extremes... okay.

They were carrying on and not caring about listening to other people even a little bit, I guess. Listen, like I said, it's way complicated.

...You alright?

Nyaha, fine! [He smiles and shakes his head, despite the fact that he is pretty clearly not fine.] I just... have an extensive history of being That Guy, is all.

...Well, if you ever wanna talk about it in more, like, detail and stuff, I'm always up for it. I won't judge or anything.

...You mean it? [Henry's pretty sure that everyone would judge, not just Kirikou.]

Sure. I mean, seriously, I've... probably seen worse!

[The whole thing with Crona was pretty freakin' bad, after all.]

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