"Trust shouldn't be given unconditionally, but it should be given a chance to be earned."
[Dipper says it like he is quoting someone else's words, which he is. They were perhaps the wisest thing to be written in that dusty journal after it was all said and done.]
[Ozpin would have a long, long way to go to re-earn the trust he broke with their family, but that isn't the case with Oscar. To put the two together would be to deny their identities and Dipper wasn't about to do that, especially not now. Oscar had answered all of his questions, and met him earnestly, and Dipper thinks that has more merit than anything.]
I'm just as complicit in this, you know. I let you keep your secrets, even knowing how potentially terrible they were. However, when the time came, you were honest.
I won't charge you for the things he's done. I won't push you two together like you're the same. Ozpin has a lot to answer for, and it'll be his decision what he does from there. That's not on you. So...
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[Dipper says it like he is quoting someone else's words, which he is. They were perhaps the wisest thing to be written in that dusty journal after it was all said and done.]
[Ozpin would have a long, long way to go to re-earn the trust he broke with their family, but that isn't the case with Oscar. To put the two together would be to deny their identities and Dipper wasn't about to do that, especially not now. Oscar had answered all of his questions, and met him earnestly, and Dipper thinks that has more merit than anything.]
I'm just as complicit in this, you know. I let you keep your secrets, even knowing how potentially terrible they were. However, when the time came, you were honest.
I won't charge you for the things he's done. I won't push you two together like you're the same. Ozpin has a lot to answer for, and it'll be his decision what he does from there. That's not on you. So...
I'm making the choice to trust you.