glorious | 𝄞 Memory 30: Trivial Negative

Being confronted by the party in Belkend

Earned: Day 178 late night from Nimue's story game
Shareable: 3/3 uses.
Taken: n/a
Form: A Sapphire ribbon

The Memory Itself

From 0:52 to 5:00

Soldier: We've brought Commander Asch.
Tear: Van! Major Legretta!
Luke: Master! Back in Akzeriuth... You...you made me...
Legretta: ...This is quite a mix-up. Shall I send them away?
Van: No, it's all right.
Tear: Why are you destroying the Sephiroth Trees and causing the Outer Lands to fall?!
Luke: This wasn't written in Yulia's Score!
Van: Yulia's Score... Don't make me laugh. If people continue to rely on that garbage, mankind will go extinct.
Natalia: But you're trying to end the world yourself, by making the Outer Lands fall!
Van: This is the only way to free the world from Yulia's Score.
Jade: I suppose the Score won't matter if everyone's dead.
Van: No. All that will die is that ghost of Yulia known as the Score and its support, Lorelei.
Anise: Lorelei... The aggregate sentience of the Seventh Fonon? But its existence hasn't been proven...
Van: It exists. It's the source of man's power to read the Score, and the force driving this world into madness. If Lorelei is not destroyed, this world will continue to be shackled by the Score.
Luke: So many people will die if the Outer Lands fall. The Score will be the least of anyone's worries.
Van: Humans are mere puppets, living only as the Score dictates. Replicas will suffice.
Guy: You're going to recreate the entire world? Everything?! That's ridiculous!
Van: Then what about this, Gailardia Galan Gardios?
Guy: (!)
Van: Mankind knew-through the Score-of Hod's destruction, and still did nothing!
Guy: But...
Van: My feelings have not changed. If you will aid me, I would gladly welcome you. My promise still stands.
Luke: What promise...? What's he talking about, Guy?
Guy: Well...
Van: My family has served House Gardios for generations. When we were reunited under Duke Fabre, we swore revenge for the destruction of Hod.
[CRASH!!]
All: (!)
Legretta: He's here.
Natalia: Asch!
Van: It's about time, Asch. With your hyperresonance, together we will create a new world order.
Asch: No! If you need hyperresonance, then use that replica there!
Van: That inferior product? He can't even control a complete hyperresonance on his own.
Luke: (!)
Van: He was merely a pawn to make the Order think history was following the Score.
Tear: Take that back!
Van: Tear, open your eyes. With the Sephiroth out of control, your efforts with this refuse are meaningless.
Van: It's all right, Legretta. They pose no threat.
Jade: Tear, put away your weapon. The odds are against us here.
Guy: Yeah. We wouldn't escape from this one unharmed. We can't die here, even if he dies with us. We still have to lower the Outer Lands.
Asch: Van. We'll both withdraw.
Legretta: Is that all right, Commandant?
Van: Improving Asch's mood could be beneficial.
Legretta: The Commandant has spoken. Now leave.

For the record, it's worth mentioning that you can go back to Van and receive different dialogue each time you talk to him. If you're Natalia, Anise or Jade, he simply says he'll let you go in deference to Asch. If you are Guy or Tear, he'd try to coax you over to joining him (I can't find the notebook where I wrote down what he said exactly and the internet is being unhelpful on this front.)

If you're Luke, however, "I have no use for dreck. Be gone. You failed to die when you were meant to. You're worthless."

What Van learns:

♪ The problem with creating replicas is that mixups tend to occur and make things needlessly messy.
♪ Very clearly had hatred and disdain for humanity but was also striving to keep them from going extinct... "Replicas will suffice."
♪ Saving humanity was not a goal in and of itself, but a side-effect. The true goal was overthrowing the Score.
♪ Luke existed solely to trick the Order into believing the Score was still on track. There was no other purpose for him.
♪ Asch's hyperresonace has a use because it an be more easily controlled. Luke's continued was worthless for his ends, and was more of a liability.
♪ Nothing is more troublesome than someone living when they were meant to die.

What this means
Blah blah blah, used to be an insane and awful person blah blah blah.

If anything comes of this without some critically poking at him during this memory, it'll be increased apathy towards others.