Wash had heard Dipper coming a ways away, but that hadn't prepared him for this level of...passion, if he's going to call it that.
He has to admit that Dipper has a point, and part of him wants to feel better with that realization. The problem is, while Dipper has a point, Brainy had a better one. It would be nice to think that he could be allowed to make a wrong decision every now and again, but his fuckups always came with consequences, and they usually affected the people around him. People had died because of his mistakes before, and it would be selfish and stupid to think that the same didn't apply here. If anything, getting lucky and taking down Reaper without incident is the exception that proves the rule.
"He actually did get me from behind," Wash starts, because that detail is going to bother him if he doesn't set it straight. "That's how the fight started, and that's why I left once he was down." Because I wasn't allowed to kill him is the end to that sentence, but Dipper doesn't need to hear that.
"Look, Brainiac may have been manipulative, but that doesn't mean he's wrong. There are people on the ship that can't defend themselves - not just kids - and my decision put them all in danger. Mistakes like that get people killed, and no amount of caring about anyone is going to make up for that." There's a good amount of personal experience behind that statement threatening to boil over, and Wash steels himself and buries it. This is not the time. "I listened to my ego instead of following protocol, and we're all lucky that no one got hurt as a result. Brainiac had every right to say what he did." Brainy got his point across, and Wash is learning from his mistake, or at least trying to. That's what matters.
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He has to admit that Dipper has a point, and part of him wants to feel better with that realization. The problem is, while Dipper has a point, Brainy had a better one. It would be nice to think that he could be allowed to make a wrong decision every now and again, but his fuckups always came with consequences, and they usually affected the people around him. People had died because of his mistakes before, and it would be selfish and stupid to think that the same didn't apply here. If anything, getting lucky and taking down Reaper without incident is the exception that proves the rule.
"He actually did get me from behind," Wash starts, because that detail is going to bother him if he doesn't set it straight. "That's how the fight started, and that's why I left once he was down." Because I wasn't allowed to kill him is the end to that sentence, but Dipper doesn't need to hear that.
"Look, Brainiac may have been manipulative, but that doesn't mean he's wrong. There are people on the ship that can't defend themselves - not just kids - and my decision put them all in danger. Mistakes like that get people killed, and no amount of caring about anyone is going to make up for that." There's a good amount of personal experience behind that statement threatening to boil over, and Wash steels himself and buries it. This is not the time. "I listened to my ego instead of following protocol, and we're all lucky that no one got hurt as a result. Brainiac had every right to say what he did." Brainy got his point across, and Wash is learning from his mistake, or at least trying to. That's what matters.