[ Cisco comes from a world that is far less violent, than Ragnar's; even within that context, he is someone who abhors violence, who would always rather help bring in a criminal than kill them. The list of people who he would willingly hurt is short - only Eobard Thawne got that special privilege, and even for him, Cisco might not have the stomach for it.
But he does understand that sometimes there's no other way. Self-defense, and all of that. So when Ragnar tells Cisco what the previous Earl had been like, his usual cheerful expression falls away, revealing something a little harder underneath. His own brother had been tortured, once. It had been brief, been reversible, but Cisco remembers the helplessness he'd felt at the time all too vividly. He's sure whatever shit Vikings got up to what ten times worse, at least.]
Sounds like he left you no choice. I'm glad you won.
[ Which does, he know, translate to being glad someone had been killed, but that tyranny shit didn't fly with Cisco. He takes a long drink of his coffee, thinking about how hard it must have been. Ragnar had had to do what he did, for his family's survival, and because of the system in place, that meant he had to rule, afterwards. ]
That's an awful lot of responsibility.
[ He says it neutrally, just an observation, rather than sympathy or congratulations. ]
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But he does understand that sometimes there's no other way. Self-defense, and all of that. So when Ragnar tells Cisco what the previous Earl had been like, his usual cheerful expression falls away, revealing something a little harder underneath. His own brother had been tortured, once. It had been brief, been reversible, but Cisco remembers the helplessness he'd felt at the time all too vividly. He's sure whatever shit Vikings got up to what ten times worse, at least.]
Sounds like he left you no choice. I'm glad you won.
[ Which does, he know, translate to being glad someone had been killed, but that tyranny shit didn't fly with Cisco. He takes a long drink of his coffee, thinking about how hard it must have been. Ragnar had had to do what he did, for his family's survival, and because of the system in place, that meant he had to rule, afterwards. ]
That's an awful lot of responsibility.
[ He says it neutrally, just an observation, rather than sympathy or congratulations. ]