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Week 2
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and it's clear that Zero
is a big dickzzzzzsht
A week has passed. However, there is no denying anymore that the power Zero possesses is very real. One person is already dead because of this, regardless of what, exactly, the Gimme's role in it was.
There is also no denying that the ship is somehow powered by blood, if not made of blood entirely. Why? How? And what do the clues uncovered in the previous week have to do with it?
The watches, meanwhile have not changed in any way. Everyone is still in their color groups. The doors to the next floor are still locked as well. Perhaps those are also murder dependent. Which is...also not good. But at least there's food and laundry down here, so...maybe it'll get boring eventually, but for now, infinite confinement on the bottom decks of the ship may not be so bad. right?
...Right?
There are currently 18 strangers on this ship.]
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[Like, 75-80% sure]
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[Again, he says it calmly, like a fact of life.]
There are plenty of heroes like that in many cultures across the world. A Hero is someone who saves others - regardless of if the one they slay also needed saving. All that matters is by which perspective they are seen from.
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[Well....He can't....exactly say that it is or isn't. Morally, of course, but...]
...Still, such is the way of the world.
And that is why This doll is Roland.
[He'll even point to it.]
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Sounds like your definition of a 'hero' is a bit out of date. These days, it's in vogue to try to save as many people as you can...I know one who even refrains from killing actual monsters.
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[He'll give a small nod, since he's still dealing with...y'know. stabbity.]
But even you cannot deny heroes in the past did things that we in the present would call monstrous. Or that those who hunt monsters must make hard choices, despite their own wishes.
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'Course not. Ancient so-called 'heroes' could be as bad as most demons, just in a way that usually benefited civilians. Those days are in the distant past, though.
Monster hunters, on the other hand...I won't argue there, except saying that some of them don't even consider the choices hard. A devil's a devil, unless you'd never even be able to tell 'it' isn't human.
CW: Emeto Mention
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[He looks over at her for emphasis...and sees how green around the gills she looks, and then adopts a chagrined expression.]
....Ah. It appears I've made quite the blunder. Please accept my apologies, my dear - I didn't mean to make you uncomfortable.
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Ah...right, modern people don't exactly grow up knowing about that sort of thing anymore.
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[Forcing herself to take in a breath.]
It's hard for me to think of anyone as a monster, let alone a kid.
And the idea that people just...could do anything they want, then say they were the heroes, just because of something about a person that doesn't even matter...
I know it's like that whole "it's always the good guys that win the war" kind of thing, but it's just a lot to think about, when it's that level of things.
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Except, something he's forgotten whispers in him, those that have made the choice to fully commit themselves to the path of Evil, knowing the end they will eventually suffer despite their struggles.But he can see she's already thinking, already willing to see past it even if it seems abhorrent to her current worldview. And so, that part of him ultimately wins out, as he nods his head.]
I do bid you to keep thinking about it, miss Anya. We are in a...fraught situation as it is, but thinking on other perspectives will only help you in the long run.
[...He sounds like a teacher talking to a student, there.]
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...Most would disagree with you that it doesn't matter.
But yeah, a lot of details get lost or blurred by the time they make it into the history books, so it's always a good idea to think about things for yourself.
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I will. May as well - life keeps throwing me for loops, philosophizing about it may help with some of it.
But hey, good to know now that morality is more complicated than I thought, right?
[Better now than when it could bite her in the ass.]
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Servants were formed by such perspectives, after all.]
Indeed - so complicated that one may yearn for the days when things were black and white.
Yet, I believe it is also beneficial to embrace those shades of gray, as it were. What is important is that you eventually come to learn what it is - and what it is not - that you can personally accept.
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Considering the rules our 'hosts' have laid down, I wouldn't count on it not coming up eventually.
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[Not gonna say difficult, because it absolutely will be.]
And hey, at the very least, I get an extra week to stew over it without having to worry. I won't say anything else about this..."motive," but I don't think anyone here has shown any real interest in it.
[And yes, she did do finger quotes, because even if she's not verbalizing that it's terrible, she can sure as Hell imply it.]
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I still cannot decide if I should be impressed at Zero for realizing how little some are willing to end a life for, or insulted that he assumed that it would work on us.
[Words Moriarty is going to eat come friday: that]
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It really just feels like a middle finger to...pretty much everything anyone could stand for.
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[A sigh.]
But, this hypothetical situation is merely the worst case scenario at the moment. Let us hope no one among us is so...stunted as to kill for such reasons as those.
Honestly, I'd take even a mere dislike or argument over...that.
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...Unless this is the real motive. Spit out everyone's worst secrets, hope one of them offends someone enough to kill over.
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[For some reason she can just sense that's what he'd claim. She can feel it in her soul.]
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Yes, it seems my first impression of you was correct.
[Someone Good, and a true Hero - even if he wouldn't call himself one.]