[Viktor tried to stop it from happening. They discussed the matter, as always, like he wasn't even there, or worth speaking to, and then Jayce went and made a weapon anyway, despite being the one person who might have listened to Viktor or valued his input at all.]

No, of course not. I was not...my opinion was negligible, if they bothered to ask for it at all. I was not an equal partner, not in practice.

[Which is something he knew for a long time, but only has only recently begun to voice outside his own thoughts. And, as Kyle assesses for himself, it wouldn't have mattered--all the Council would've had to do was halt his research on the Hexcore and wait out a few months. Maybe not entirely viable, given the immediacy of Jinx's threat, but certainly a problem that might have solved itself, in time.

The rest of it, well. Viktor can't say it's unrelated, but he knows there must have been more to it.]

That...it may have been a factor. More than likely, I failed in my efforts to cure my illness. Maybe the Council destroyed my research, maybe an experiment went awry. Whatever it was, I wanted to stop.

[It wasn't worth it, somehow. He just doesn't know what that something would have been, and the guesses he can make are possibilities he doesn't want to entertain.]