Reed Richards I Mr. Fantastic

Varos the Archivist and Reed the Maker

a hint of an unraveling possibility

"Good and evil are labels you attach to processes that are beyond your comprehension. Believe me Varos, the world does not understand itself better when you insult it with adjectives. When I save a city, they call me brilliant, If I sacrifice a city, they call me a monster. But in both cases, I'm doing exactly the same thing:.. optimizing... Evil is just the perspective of those who are too close to their own pain. I've given myself ridiculous names to stay in people's memories... but neither Mr. Fantastic nor the Maker will stick. Another label I've slapped on myself, and yet I realize it's time to really do something... to create something, and if that means destroying, then for me that's an optimistic perspective... sometimes the old must give way to make room for the new. That's measurable... that's achievable."

Varos exhaled briefly and silently.

"Un sentiment de nécessité, Reed. I will help you, whether you like it or not. Because you are too valuable to sabotage yourself. I would be foolish not to join this symbiosis of your personalities... my contribution is... invisibility, the long-term correction of your blind spots. When you design a new world, I will set the conditions under which it can survive. I will give you stability, and I can give it to you because I have spent my whole life in the shadows and know of quiet catastrophes that no one has ever noticed, yet they wiped out many from within. I will prepare the world to endure what you do to it; only then can we create balance."