That Londo was part of Virini's death dream only occurred to me while I was writing this, and it makes the few interactions between them even more heartbreaking. Also I loved tinkering with the idea that Londo ended up being a source of hope for Virini, just like Vir would end up a s a source of hope for Londo, even though the two situations are totally different. For one, the idea that Virini is comforted by the thought that Londo still cares while the rest of the court doesn't, could in itself be fodder for a whole story. Because of course Londo's great flaw has always been that this whole caring business has never stopped him from making horrible decisions anyway (he cared about the desctuction of Narn, after all, but it didn't bring him to act to stop it) and so one can ask the question what is worse: to make bad decisisons because you simply don't care or realize they are bad (as, say, Refa did) or to make them full knowing how despicable they are, as Londo did. So what makes Virini (and all of us, I guess) admire Londo in the end is the exact same thing that got Londo into this whole mess to begin with... which is another of those great and tragic ironies of this show.
And thank you for the prompt, which was fun and challenging and gave me a chance to explore something I'd probably never have thought of myself!
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That Londo was part of Virini's death dream only occurred to me while I was writing this, and it makes the few interactions between them even more heartbreaking. Also I loved tinkering with the idea that Londo ended up being a source of hope for Virini, just like Vir would end up a s a source of hope for Londo, even though the two situations are totally different. For one, the idea that Virini is comforted by the thought that Londo still cares while the rest of the court doesn't, could in itself be fodder for a whole story. Because of course Londo's great flaw has always been that this whole caring business has never stopped him from making horrible decisions anyway (he cared about the desctuction of Narn, after all, but it didn't bring him to act to stop it) and so one can ask the question what is worse: to make bad decisisons because you simply don't care or realize they are bad (as, say, Refa did) or to make them full knowing how despicable they are, as Londo did. So what makes Virini (and all of us, I guess) admire Londo in the end is the exact same thing that got Londo into this whole mess to begin with... which is another of those great and tragic ironies of this show.
And thank you for the prompt, which was fun and challenging and gave me a chance to explore something I'd probably never have thought of myself!