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[willing_sheath]

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[willing_sheath]

Do I?

I don't necessarily disagree with you. If anything that just strengthens the point that it isn't simple.


But we aren't in your world. Your siblings are thankfully not here to be exploited and the people here have likely never even heard of a Plant, much less benefited from one, so that argument doesn't really apply here.

[arkfall]

Instead, we are in a world where humanity had divided half of themselves into a subgroup and exploits that instead. Proof that they never get better.

[willing_sheath]

I am not about to waste words on this wretched place other than the same--it is not black and white, but I'll be the first to admit there seems to be much more dark than light here. And there are the people who have been brought here. What of them? Or the non-humans who have been brought here?

[arkfall]

Victims of humanity's whims. Some deserving, some not. There was a time I would have said it would be better to kill them all than let the suffering continue.

[willing_sheath]

You and your brother are more alike than you think. You both have taken things to the extreme--either kill everything or kill nothing. I won't say that the path he has chosen is easy, but it's no less flawed.

[arkfall]

Perhaps that true. Two sides of the same coin, mirror reflections.

I don't want to kill everything anymore.

[willing_sheath]

Perhaps.

I remember.

I hope your brother can curve his idealism before it hurts him. I respect his view of not killing but it also isn't realistic for what he throws himself into. He has managed to protect without killing because of his strength and skill but one day he'll be faced with a situation where it's a matter of killing or letting someone die. I worry for him when that day comes.

[arkfall]

Oh, he kills that person. At least in one reality. In the other, it's more that he lets them die.

[willing_sheath]

[She reads that over several times... and then several more.]

[Really... Knives is from after their final conflict, whatever that entails... with whoever else following him besides Legato... it's not surprising...]

[Though that just ramps her worry up.]

[She has no idea that the person in question is Legato.]



Do you know how he handles it?

[arkfall]

In the reality where he kills the person, no. Bluesummers' memories can't extend past his death.

[willing_sheath]

[It's a good thing that she is already sitting down because reading that just made her knees weak. She reads it several more times again. She can't tell... if Knives is saying that Legato is that person or if Legato died before he could see the aftermath.]

[With the dread she feels every time she has a run in with Legato coupled with Vash's caution... she can see it. She doesn't know what Legato is capable of... but if he is the type to target allies to get to Vash... then yes...]

And in yours? It didn't happen?

[arkfall]

In mine, a lot happened during the final battle...

I... I don't know much of what happened after that. If he felt guilty for not saving everyone or if some of the death was excusable to him. I'm afraid my memories do not extend past my own death either.

[willing_sheath]

I see...

[arkfall]

If he ever gains those memories we may have to keep an eye on him.

[willing_sheath]

Yes... I imagine we will.