>>81780924Sure, probably. He was doing better than you would expect with Trianna to the extent the Master said "woah woah woah, are you SURE?" to divert her into Mystic Adventuring.
And that might have solely been to serve his own devices because Dean's not like, horrible or anything.
And I feel like it's not a foregone conclusion that he would suck as much as the Master was alleging he would, although even if he was kind of pedestrian you could do worse.
If the Master was telling the truth. I don't necessarily believe that he's completely straight with people. Not necessarily malicious, but definitely has an agenda. Like how Killinger nudges and mentors and urges people towards a better sort of Villainy. (And he's not really that bad either in spite of his name and costume theme and everything. Actually he's pretty awesome.)