What if, when everything is less fresh, a statue is built at the academy. The statue is of two young men, both facing slightly different directions, but with their heads turned to look up and forward, onto the future. One of the men looks forward in unconcealed hope, hope for the future and what is to come. The other is more revered, but the hunger for knowing the unknown is said to be more intense than the other’s.
Despite everything that had happened, the academy argued that these were the finest students that they ever had the pleasure of teaching. They were both undeniably the Men of Progress, looking to help build a better life, despite what it turned into, in the end. Because in all worlds and all realities, only they could build something up and destroy it together.