[Kirk quotes Will in a monotone that suggests an attempt at keeping emotional distance]
"I always knew that she loved you. Even back in college, she was only ever really happy when the three of us were together. Even after I turned you into a monster. Even after that, she still wanted you."
[How well Kirk remembers Will's confession hints at how traumatic it's been]
Those are some of the things he told me years later after he revealed his true colors. By then, he had secretly murdered some of the world's top scientists and then tried to frame the Justice League. The military was right at our doorstep and ready to execute us.
Hernan and Bekka were trying to keep the military at bay while I was in the tower, monitoring. Will then ambushed me. Earlier, someone had tried to kill him and we took him to the tower for medical treatment. That turned out to be a ruse. He needed to get into the tower to use the power core.
[Kirk forces himself to keep going despite how tense his body now was. Vander was going to ask more questions anyway]
That moment when he restrained me was also when Will confessed that he killed Tina years ago. He claimed it was an accident when she kept talking to him about how he needed to keep helping me find a vampirism cure. According to him, her death made him realize that free agency is the root of evil and that it should be eliminated. If even a brilliant scientist like him is capable of killing, then what chance does humanity have?
[Even recollecting it now, Will's madness still feels monstrous]
For several years after Tina's death, he secretly prepared a bomb that could unleash billions of nanites to take over every human mind on Earth. Take down the Justice League and no one could stop him. We also had the right power core to support his bomb.
[Kirk looks away. Bitterness and self-loathing rising to his throat]
While Will plotted all of that, I never put all the pieces together. The Tina I had been talking to for the last several years was one of Will's machines and meant to fool me. Will kept on a mask that I never knew was even there.
CW: mention of domestic violence
"I always knew that she loved you. Even back in college, she was only ever really happy when the three of us were together. Even after I turned you into a monster. Even after that, she still wanted you."
[How well Kirk remembers Will's confession hints at how traumatic it's been]
Those are some of the things he told me years later after he revealed his true colors. By then, he had secretly murdered some of the world's top scientists and then tried to frame the Justice League. The military was right at our doorstep and ready to execute us.
Hernan and Bekka were trying to keep the military at bay while I was in the tower, monitoring. Will then ambushed me. Earlier, someone had tried to kill him and we took him to the tower for medical treatment. That turned out to be a ruse. He needed to get into the tower to use the power core.
[Kirk forces himself to keep going despite how tense his body now was. Vander was going to ask more questions anyway]
That moment when he restrained me was also when Will confessed that he killed Tina years ago. He claimed it was an accident when she kept talking to him about how he needed to keep helping me find a vampirism cure. According to him, her death made him realize that free agency is the root of evil and that it should be eliminated. If even a brilliant scientist like him is capable of killing, then what chance does humanity have?
[Even recollecting it now, Will's madness still feels monstrous]
For several years after Tina's death, he secretly prepared a bomb that could unleash billions of nanites to take over every human mind on Earth. Take down the Justice League and no one could stop him. We also had the right power core to support his bomb.
[Kirk looks away. Bitterness and self-loathing rising to his throat]
While Will plotted all of that, I never put all the pieces together. The Tina I had been talking to for the last several years was one of Will's machines and meant to fool me. Will kept on a mask that I never knew was even there.