I suppose we could read into Isaak saying that from his side too. Though I’m not sure how much Cain could have changed. Helga might have gone from the brilliant protégé to a bitchy little girl or… but canon says that Isaak didn’t meet Cain till after he’d been kicked out of KCL, doesn’t it? Perhaps, depending on what year of their course they were in, if William and Isaak had known each other through first year already where it’s just bringing everybody up to speed rather than stretching their knowledge and learning, it might have been the case that Isaak was fine then but as soon as the real work started, it became painfully obvious that he just couldn’t keep up. In which case he got vicious and stopped being the fellow genius/rival that William had known him as.
[space in which I attempted to write something. Except whenever I write it neither William nor Isaak dislike each other and end up quite chummy anyway.]
That does have potential for William honestly mourning the friend Isaak used to be, with the added twist that the Isaak William knew was the fake while the person he has become is actually the real thing. I could imagine that William might not at all the sort to invent excuses but going on only what he’s seen and what he can confirm, may well suspect that there’s some underlying awful thing that’s happened to Isaak to change things, when in fact Isaak was always that immoral and just chose to hide that fact on occasion. It comes back to the whole business of stasis again; William may not have changed all that much either but… New theory! William and Isaak are meant to demonstrate stasis and the hypocrisy of there being a blanket rule for that sort of thing. William doesn’t really change but his stasis is a socially acceptable one where as neither does Isaak, if we presume that he was that disturbed from the start, but his stasis is socially unacceptable so he’s demonised for it. Trinity Blood: nothing is a case of absolutes. Which comes back to Ion’s line in the anime about the Empire dealing only in absolutes with no allowance for variation.
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I suppose we could read into Isaak saying that from his side too. Though I’m not sure how much Cain could have changed. Helga might have gone from the brilliant protégé to a bitchy little girl or… but canon says that Isaak didn’t meet Cain till after he’d been kicked out of KCL, doesn’t it? Perhaps, depending on what year of their course they were in, if William and Isaak had known each other through first year already where it’s just bringing everybody up to speed rather than stretching their knowledge and learning, it might have been the case that Isaak was fine then but as soon as the real work started, it became painfully obvious that he just couldn’t keep up. In which case he got vicious and stopped being the fellow genius/rival that William had known him as.
[space in which I attempted to write something. Except whenever I write it neither William nor Isaak dislike each other and end up quite chummy anyway.]
That does have potential for William honestly mourning the friend Isaak used to be, with the added twist that the Isaak William knew was the fake while the person he has become is actually the real thing. I could imagine that William might not at all the sort to invent excuses but going on only what he’s seen and what he can confirm, may well suspect that there’s some underlying awful thing that’s happened to Isaak to change things, when in fact Isaak was always that immoral and just chose to hide that fact on occasion. It comes back to the whole business of stasis again; William may not have changed all that much either but… New theory! William and Isaak are meant to demonstrate stasis and the hypocrisy of there being a blanket rule for that sort of thing. William doesn’t really change but his stasis is a socially acceptable one where as neither does Isaak, if we presume that he was that disturbed from the start, but his stasis is socially unacceptable so he’s demonised for it. Trinity Blood: nothing is a case of absolutes. Which comes back to Ion’s line in the anime about the Empire dealing only in absolutes with no allowance for variation.