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“You can’t protect him. He’s already broken and needs help, but not the kind any of you or I can give.” Vic leaned toward Chel as he spoke gently and compassionately. “I know you love him. How could you avoid it? He has a lot of potential and he’s not a bad kid at all.” Vic paused, letting the words and weight of them sink in. Chel stared at her father. This was not what she had really expected, but was happy that he was being positive about Lexx, despite his flaws. “As an agent, Lexx is my first responsibility. As a father, you are my first responsibility.”
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8 thoughts on “Day 26 Part 2 Page 5”
jaqiefox
His attitude makes me sick. The old damaged goods routine, just like I thought.
hariman
I think you’re being too hard on Vic. It doesn’t sound like Vic is saying that Chel shouldn’t date him, it sounds like Vic is saying that Lexx needs therapy and professional help.
Considering that Lexx is essentially a trained from childhood gladiator who knows nothing but how to fight and who has also been sold as an “escort” for an evening, complete with training for that, he’s right.
Lexx IS broken, but Vic isn’t pushing him away because of that. Instead, Vic is making sure that Lexx’ issues are taken care of so that they don’t become a problem in the future.
Vic knows that Chel and Lexx are in love with each other (which is painfully obvious), and he wants them to be happy. So he’s making sure that they will be happy, not barring Lexx from dating his daughter.
Renessa
Except that’s EXACTLY what Lexx is and has always been. Doesn’t mean he can’t get his head on straight and turn out alright, but Victor is right. He IS messed up, and for the most part they’ve all been going about trying to help him the wrong way.
jaqiefox
As I said yesterday, I am/was in a somewhat similar condition to Lexx, and what I need and needed most was friends and family that won’t leave me so I could learn what it was like, and begin learning how to socialize. They are doing the right thing mostly for Lexx, albeit clumsily. That is exactly the kind of help Lexx needs (minus the lying part), Vic is dead wrong.
No therapy of that type exists, by the way.
hariman
I don’t think Chel will leave Lexx. I don’t believe Vic would keep them apart. Given his prior levelheadedness, any therapist in Vic’s employ would likely be the best he could find, who would realize/know all that you just said.
I’m pretty sure that Vic wants to provide a safe place for Lexx for both the fact that Lexx is an “alien” with super powers (Who WILL draw attention from less friendly people than Vic.) and because his daughter loves him.
Once that safe place is provided, he’ll have the chance to socialize with other people and have the chance to deprogram the fighting instinct the ADC training forced on him.
Plus, Sabreur has made a number of points that are the other half of my opinion.
Sabreur
No, that’s not what he’s saying at all.
Lexx has issues. That’s indisputable. Vic’s concern in the previous page was that they’re trying to ‘help’ him by hiding difficult truths from him, and that’s a spectacularly bad idea.
Vic isn’t advocating that they abandon him – in this exact page, he just listed some great reasons why they shouldn’t! While we’ll have to wait for him to finish speaking to know for sure, it looks to me like he’s advocating a change in strategy.
admin
While Vic would PREFER Lexx be miles away, he isn’t. 😉 So yes, he’ll work toward socializing him and treating him like an adult. I think that’s what is being missed here. Vic is NOT advocating treating him like a kid, which IS mostly how all his friends treat him by not giving him choices and just doing ‘what’s good for Lexx’. Their actions keep him from learning and tend to just send him in deeper depression that his life has zero choices. Vic has not promised things he can’t deliver and doesn’t suger coat things. But what he does offer is help on equal terms, the best he can do for the best Lexx can. And Vic’s opinions change as he sees more, which will be followed up immediately in a ‘nicer’ conversation with Lexx.
chibidoll
When this is over, do you think one of those groups that deals with child soldiers in Africa could work with Lexx? Vic has a point, but at the same time I think he hasn’t really been around Lexx long enough to get a complete handle on the guy.
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