[Salieri was pretty straight to the point about it, too. He told him about what he saw for that motive, he explained how he felt there were no other options.
I asked Discord to kill me.
Varian doesn't know about how Salieri found Discord prone, attempting to kill himself instead. He probably would have understood that logic even less, considering what they knew about the rules in regards to the way suicides work...or the lack thereof. It wasn't something Varian liked to think about all that much. It doesn't matter either way, not when they still ended up reaching the same, awful conclusion.]
You took a fall for him that you never should have had to.
[But like...he gets it. He does. He can only imagine how things must have been, then...how convincing Salieri probably was. Even to Discord, who knows him better than any of the rest of them...]
cw: themes of suicide
[Salieri was pretty straight to the point about it, too. He told him about what he saw for that motive, he explained how he felt there were no other options.
I asked Discord to kill me.
Varian doesn't know about how Salieri found Discord prone, attempting to kill himself instead. He probably would have understood that logic even less, considering what they knew about the rules in regards to the way suicides work...or the lack thereof. It wasn't something Varian liked to think about all that much. It doesn't matter either way, not when they still ended up reaching the same, awful conclusion.]
You took a fall for him that you never should have had to.
[But like...he gets it. He does. He can only imagine how things must have been, then...how convincing Salieri probably was. Even to Discord, who knows him better than any of the rest of them...]
Now you're both here. For nothing.
[It's said harshly. Bitterly.]