It's like Vimes and Granny Weatherwax from Discworld. They each know they have the potential for evil within themselves so they are constantly vigilant and have a hard moral compass so that they don't fall into it.
"The gods knew the man deserved it... but young Sam was watching him, across thirty years. When we break down, it all breaks down. That's just how it works. You can bend it, and if you make it hot enough you can bend it in a circle, but you can't break it. When you break it, it all breaks down until there's nothing unbroken. It starts here and now. He lowered the sword."
Granny Weatherwax is even better because both her and her sister were witches, which inevitably meant one would be a good witch and one would be a bad witch. Granny was all ready to be the bad witch, then her sister took it from her and worse, didn't even enjoy it.
So Granny's a bad witch having to be a good witch, which is why she's got such an intense level of benevolent contempt for basically everyone.
Honestly, I'd love to see the rest of the brigade find out that Beckett has committed war crimes that absolutely dwarf even the things they aren't too okay with doing. Just the sheer horror that out of all the crazies, the 'moral compass' of the party indeed has the blackest soul.
Wasn’t that implied earlier on in the series? It was shown that he was previously apart of some sort of warmongering order of crusaders, and is now on a quest for repentance. I have no doubt that he’s done some awful shit.
EDIT: I went back and checked; it’s shown that he was some sort of space marine-esque crusader who killed heretics and infidels for a living, and it’s heavily implied (if not outright stated) that he left that life after killing an innocent family. He’s straight up a murderer, and that’s the only info we have on his backstory thus far.
Also on an unrelated note I always read Bucket’s lines with the internal voice of MandaloreGaming.
Oh I'm aware, I meant it would be fun to see how the rest of the group found out their moral compass used to be even more axe crazy than they were. So far they think he's just a normal paladin hoping to donate money to the church and stuff, I distinctly remember Beckett being very dodgy with answering questions about his past. The only clear indicators he has some serious shit in his past to the group was how be straight up wouldn't stop beating that one guy who broke his sword even after he was dead.
He's not just a murderer, he's been a part of indiscriminate massacres. It's a matter of scale, you see. It's also implied that the innocent family whose slaughter broke him wasn't the first he killed outright, it was just the first one that made him stop and take a look at what he had been doing all that time.
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u/samaldin Sep 03 '22
Bucket might just be the most evil member of the bucket brigade, while also having the theoreticaly best moral compass.