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Capitulating to her father's demands and agreeing to marry Sabthan (with the understanding that doing so would mean Zodanga would spare Helium).

She knew it was a bad idea and she went through with it anyway.

For both of mine (Joly and Bahorel) there's that whole thing where they have, y'know. Killed people. Straight up killed people with bullets and things. And while both of them would say it was a necessary thing at the time and they'd do it again given duplicate circumstances, and while the people they killed were definitely trying to kill them right back (and did succeed!), still, that's pretty solidly the line for them.

Edited 2015-08-31 15:04 (UTC)

Enjolras: Executed a person, without judge or jury or trial. It was pretty clearly necessary for a whole lot of reasons, and in the same circumstances he'd do it again, but that was a moral line past even killing people in battle, for him. (He has a whole speech about condemning himself for it.)

Cosette: ...I'll have to think about this one. Not sure. She doesn't have any immediately obvious contenders.

Thor: Oh geez. The contenders are: nearly started a war between Jötunheim and Asgard because of his own restless pride, or missed what was going on with Loki such that he had no idea Loki was festering with resentment and bitterness and weird competitive envy until everything exploded in everyone's faces. They're both pretty bad. I think he'd say the latter if he had to pick one, but really they're also fairly interconnected.

Kazul: This is something else I'll have to think about. Nothing canonically onscreen. It's probably something from when she was much younger.

Trowa: Killed a bunch of his just-barely-former squadmates. He was 12 or so. There are some other competing incidents too, but that one wins.

I bet Cosette took some actual forbidden fruit at the convent
I just bet

HOW DID YOU KNOW HER SECRET SHAME

"Secret" in the sense of "she totally did confession for it after like a day of writhing in guilt but also memory of deliciousness"

but she didn't tell her dad or uncle

the scandals hidden behind convent walls, it's shocking

X killed her sensei and her mother. It wasn't a choice, at the time. But since she's broken a lot of the conditioning now, part of her thinks she could have done it then, too. If she had tried harder.

Galadan did this whole a) giving Jennifer to Rakoth Maugrim which -- gave them Darien, who was able to kill Maugrim forever, so -- he can't quite regret it, but it's one of the worst things he's done. Also the gross plan for the genocide of the Paraiko. So gross.

Wonder Woman -- I think other people would say her killing of Maxwell Lord is the worst thing she's done. But she wouldn't. For her it's -- letting Vanessa Kapatelis get turned into the Silver Swan. Just. That was pretty bad. She regrets that fiercely all the time.

Ysalwen has killed a lot of people. So many people. She feels stained by every one of them, but I think she also doesn't see -- a way out? Yet. Like, how to stop it. Because it's kind of super her job. I think in the near-ish future leaving Anders to his own devices is probably a significant regret. Not sending Justice back to the Fade when she had a chance. Executing Loghain was pretty -- difficult, too. She doesn't like to think about that much. And something else coming up is something she realizes other people will judge her harshly for, but honey badger don't give a damn.

I may come back for some later, but these are the ones I've got now.

For Bossuet and Feuilly, see Joly's answer above, pretty much word for word.

Djehuty feels a little weird about some of the things that go with being a god, especially now that he's hanging out in Milliways with humans from far in the future. You know, the whole "if you're so amazing that you totally could step in and save [whoever's] life, why don't you" business.

For my other characters, it's more a matter of regrets than guilt. Gredya's deeply ashamed of the time the Wyr were lured into fighting as soldiers, addicted to morphine, oops. Helen isn't too proud of the spell when she was Head Badguy Frank Miller's girlfriend. It's conceivable that the Chief made some rookie mistake when she was a rookie, that resulted in someone getting away, but it's a lesson she's learned from.

Soon-to-be-apped character feels kinda weird about the life choices that have resulted in him feeling obliged to party in London while his dad is dying.

Gordon's killed kind of a lot of people, admittedly in self defense, but the one he feels was his worst thing was the Marine he overheard muttering that he didn't sign on for this killing-civilians bullshit. That one dropped out of 'enemy' status and into 'person', but since open fire commenced shortly thereafter Gordon never found out which guy it was (and probably wouldn't have been able to spare him anyway).

I honestly don't know with Shephard. He's not big on regretting things he's done. (A case might be made for 'not going down along with all his brothers', but he'll never admit to that while sober, and anyway he has orders from General bloody America to stay alive and train up the new Corps so he doesn't allow himself to think like that any more.)

Ellen still has flashbacks- fairly often- to the moment she signaled an orbiting pre-War weapons platform to drop everything it had on the Enclave crawler base, but I think she considers her actions earlier in that battle to be worse- anti-aircraft duty with her Tesla cannon, Mjolnir. Either way, the 'worst' aspect wasn't that she was fighting or that she had to kill people, it was blowing up people who had absolutely no way of fighting back- you can't defend against an orbital strike except by running, and most of the Vertibirds she shot down were personnel carriers rather than armed fighter craft. It's one thing to kill someone who's actively trying to kill you. It's something else entirely to do it to someone who would kill you if they had the chance, but who doesn't currently have the chance.

Varric hasn't done anything he considers the worst thing. Once he finds out how things have gone with his brother since leaving the Deep Roads, that is going to change.

Stacker... I am not sure. I think possibly he wishes he had fought harder to keep the Jaeger program going rather than letting the Wall take over. I don't think he blames himself for Luna's death, or for Tamsin's, and I'm not sure what else he'd think he'd done that was a Worst Thing.

Edward Kenway hasn't developed enough of a proper conscience yet to really grasp that he's done a Worst Thing. That comes later in the game.

Fawkes is not sure what he may have done that would constitute the worst thing he'd ever done, but given the habits of his fellow meta-humans and how they treated him for a long time, he assumes he's eaten people. That probably counts.

I don't know with Santo. I'd have to watch more of his canon to see if there was anything that stood out.

And Wee Mad Arthur regrets nothing. NOTHIIIIIING.

...hah. Hah.

Ahahahahahaaaaaaaa.

Man, one of these days I am going to figure out some way for him to find out about the Family...

Oh Curtis.... ~CLUTCHES~

I apologize for delay on tags; weekend sucked.

Eriond - Not really applicable. He doesn't do that stuff.

Lois - At this point, she'd probably say it has something to do with how Lucy went international criminal for a bit, and Lois feels it's her fault for not being a good enough older sister/mother substitute. Later there can be guilt over stuff done when Isis possesses her that time, or the time she accidentally helps Zod, or angst in her personal life, but for now, failing Lucy.

Henry - None yet really, although honestly he will pretty swiftly feel like the first casualty of OUaT is his fault.

Evelyn - The magic incident that led to her scar, actually. If a teacher hadn't been on hand, people could have gotten hurt. She will have a lot worse on this list once her life starts doing strange things.

Tavi - Intentionally? Crucifying Fidelias. Next candidate might be the death ray. That's specifics; in general he feels awful about having to turn off his sense of horror to get things Done. Unintentionally? Woke the Vord Queen, thus being the indirect cause of the deaths of tens of millions and the collapse of one and a half civilizations, including his own, in a process that gives him control over a substantial portion of his known world. o o p s. He feels pretty bad about that.

Soon-to-be-apped character killed a bunch of people unnecessarily while in the grip of rage and grief over the death of a loved one, and spends some years hiding how much the guilt of it is actually weighing. It's a lot. And that's before the downhill spiral of doom.

Ahsoka Tano: Part of her will always regret leaving the Jedi Order.
Asajj Ventress: Well, there's all that killing and destruction. It did seem like a good idea at the time, but in hindsight, perhaps it was a bit much. (deep down, she might admit "letting" her master die would be the worst thing she has ever done.)
Briareus: Believing that man from the KGB and that his actions would lead to an independent Greece.
Hank McCoy: Past, lying to his parents about his mutation. Future, being so brutally honest with Raven about how he sees society and mutations.
Luidaeg: Not a damn thing. As painful as some things have been, there has always been a reason for the action that made it worth it.
Quinlan Vos: Killing his Great Aunt. She totally deserved it, but she should have been tried rather than him being judge and executioner.
Rollo Rognvaldsson: Killing Arne One-Eye. Betraying his brother.
Sam Wilson: Living while Riley didn't.
Selina Kyle: Don't think I have a canon answer yet.
Shinatose Izana: Nothing to date either.

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Hotspur is pretty great about justifying basically anything (or at least, not thinking about it deeply enough to be troubled by it), but he's definitely come to regret his part in seeing the king deposed and then murdered (though he had nothing to do with that part).

Whatever Viola and Arabella would come up with would probably not be particularly extreme.

I feel like Viola and Arabella and Cosette and probably some of the others should form a "the worst thing I've ever done is... uh... I told my tutor/governess/nun she'd never assigned me homework one time when really I blew it off to have a snowball fight" club or something.

100% yes. The "one time I caught a firefly in a jar but then it died :(" club.

She's killed people, tried to kill more, almost allowed Zod to take over the world. And she's the good Luthor!

Blakeney: Falling asleep on watch. It was one of his first turns at evening watch, and he hadn't been away from home long, but that still doesn't excuse the fact that he was found curled up on some of the spare rope.

Ace: ......... ................ Accidentally betraying the Doctor to Fenric.

Oswin: Leaving the damn escape capsule. It really wouldn't have changed anything, but that makes the whole result feel like her fault.

Camille: Getting caught by Richard Poole. Honestly, that was embarrassing.

Katya: Letting the Mirror rile her that badly. She doesn't know how it got under her skin, but the effects were disastrous. (no one tell her it's what Gesar planned, k?)

Jemma: .............. lemme get back to you on that one? It probably has something to do with science.

Glorfindel: Getting killed by that Balrog. It wasn't as if it was the only Balrog he faced that day, and the remnants of Gondolin would have done better if he'd been able to survive. Never mind him being present in Arda would have made the lives of the sons of Feanor that much more unpleasant. He has no problem with this.

'Bones' McCoy: Taking his father off life support, hands down, it's canon, he will probably never forgive himself for that one.

Sam: ... She caused a major row between Milner and his wife... though that wasn't really on purpose, but she could have behaved with more decorum in a married man's house.

It was a really good song though, and Milner should dance more.

Kirk: Destroying the Enterprise. He probably should regret things he's done with people, and command decisions with wider repercussions, but he still sees the ship going to her doom in his dreams.

Knox: Regrets, he's had a few. But then again, too few to mention. (That is to say, nothing major, but I wanted quote My Way.)

Cyborg: nothing he would admit. But he really does secretly regret not making peace with his father.

The Question: Some days he regrets spending so many years being a vigilante. Some days he regrets not being a better one.

Swamp Thing: He shouldn't feel this way, given that assuming the mantle of the Avatar of the Green saved the world. But he regrets putting that mantle back on.

Killed his older brother.

Will killed people as part of protecting his home and he doesn't regret what he had to do but it still hurts that he had to.

Charles, bringing the young mutants to Facility X where Shaw found them. He thought it was for the best and it turned against him, now he's trying to do better.

Quentin, dated Katie and brought her into contact with his world.

William, I'm not sure for him. At one point it might have been not killing Ben Wade but that's complicated. Not being in Milliways for the end and beginning, he feels guilty.

Sameth, running away from his responsibilities, it ended up getting him where he needed to be but he knew that choice was awful.

Jane, nothing yet, but later in canon, best/worst is almost eloping with Tom.

Moist, no answer from him as he doesn't look at the world in a way to see worst.

Ivan, hm, I don't know, for all that he's not always the one out front, he's never let Miles or Gregor or anyone in his family down if he can help it.

Demeter, her morality doesn't work this way and she doesn't have an answer.

Tumnus, telling the White Witch, he would watch the Lantern Waste and enchanting Lucy even though he didn't turn her in. For the Narnia Exchange, someone wrote me a story that perfectly captured Tumnus' choices. From the grove of cypress and yellow rose, I highly recommend it as it captures a lot of what I try to have in Tumnus.

Gene - once shot a young guy in an armed robbery siege who then turned out to be unarmed. That didn't go down too well with anyone, including himself, though he tries to justify it.

Javert - being born?

Valjean - in some lights, you could say stealing the bread. I doubt he'd say that himself though, given where it led him. I think the worst thing he'd say he did was stealing the money off Petit Gervais after the Bishop let him go. He wasn't quite in his right mind, but crucially, he wasn't able to put it right afterwards.

Courfeyrac - see other Amis' answers. Killing was necessary, but it's not exactly his favourite thing.

Bruce Wayne - got scared once, and his parents died because of it. In his view. Also, not being able to save Rachel.

Bruce Banner - the Hulk, probably, because he's not yet at the point where the other guy is using his powers for good. And Betty got hurt.

Pearly and Jim - both largely incapable of knowing they've done anything bad. Pearly especially; Jim knows that most things he does are bad, he just doesn't care.

((ooc: fer crying out loud, Javert.))

He's got self-loathing down, yo. And doesn't even realise it.

The central male characters of Les Mis, summarized in a forty second video

*cackle* AMAZING.

And so true. :D :D :D

((dammit javert))

It's official, he sux.

Alex in my head is having a screaming fit right now. There are things being thrown, glasses broken, epithets hurled.

I'm getting the sense that she's ~ducks a flying vase~ yeah, she's upset.

Well, it depends on how the question is interpreted. Hardest thing would have been letting Alex go, for sure. But worst? Yes, for him personally - but I read the question as morality-based. And in that respect letting Alex go was the decent thing, for both of them and for the other coppers he'd help in the future. Far more selfless than killing an unarmed kid was.

Oh, that's not what she's livid about. She thinks the worst thing he ever did was lie to them all about where they were and who he was. She gets why he did it? But -- still angry. Still working through her issues.

Ha, well - he will argue until his dying day (ha!) that he didn't know about that, so what could he do? But yeah, that was also a pretty bad thing, even if it was unconscious.

Cassie: Everything she did under the influence of the Blood Code. Trying to kill her own mother, helping Reiko slaughter hundreds of Shokan and Tarkatan warriors, plunging a magical dagger into her mother's chest to put her under the Blood Code's influence, holding Kintaro's arms while Sonya ripped his head off...I mean, it wasn't her fault, but Jesus.

Garyn: The murder that got him thrown in prison.

Raiden: Every death he failed to prevent in his ham-fisted defeat of Shao Kahn. Liu Kang probably stings most of all, given that he killed him with his bare hands.

Sheogorath: Regrets are for lesser beings.

Sheogorath's should read, "Forgot the cheese."

"I suppose that can be a good thing, if you don't like cheese. True?"

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Combeferre and Jehan Prouvaire: like their friends, killing in battle is the worst thing they've done by their lights, though neither of them regrets doing it and both would do it again in the same circumstances.

Brienne of Tarth: for her it's less something she did, and more something she didn't do. Namely, she didn't save Renly Baratheon from the shadow assassin.

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