voidtreckernet | Llama 13

(OOC: Threads arising from this question may contain some unpleasant aspects of Eva's world re: mewtwo/s, including how they were created and how they're seen. Eva'll take any actual talk of it off the ICP.)

A question, if you will. [Eva is nowhere near as calm as she tries to sound, and it becomes clearer as she speaks. She's also recording all of this on Roro for later playback.]

Say... Say you know someone. You call them a good person, someone who always helps and tries to do the right thing. Yet, they've also protected a creature... no, a person your society and culture deems a kill-on-sight threat, for very good reasons. It's not the right thing to do by society, and it means... means they'll be branded a Traitor to be executed if anyone ever finds out. [A breath -you wouldn't be wrong if you get the feeling this is personal for her, because, it is. ] But they feel it's the right thing to do because the person is a person and worse yet, the equivalent of a child. So they do. They protect the person, even knowing they've signed their death warrant.

What... What you do if you found out? Would... would you condemn them? Or would you... would you agree with them?

Ah... and um. For those that saw that illusion, the one with the kids -my sisters-, can... Can I talk to you? Privately?

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[A sigh- and she's not gonna beat around the bush, here.]

You- You heard what Sakaki-san called me.

[It's telling that though she uses an honorific, she twists it into something rude, something disrespectful.

Also telling is how she's not even going to bring Satoru into this. It's all on her. It's ok if she's the one yeeted under the stampede, so to speak.]

You and your friend, yes.

[He's a shield tank, Eva. He can recognize when someone is taking a hit for someone else.]

Given your earlier scenario, I take it to mean that you and your friend are protecting one such child.

He has nothing to do with this and was only lumped in because he's my boyfriend. It's a common tactic that's used if you think someone's a Traitor and often the fastest way to get them out themselves.

[Sorry, Grandpa; she's spent a decade lying about this. One more lie to protect someone who isn't even her to defend himself isn't going to matter. Not in her mind, and as such, everything about her says the statement's true.]

I am, yeah, and I'll walk to my own execution if it means she gets to survive and thrive. Even if we have very good reasons for the laws, that doesn't make them any less stupid in my mind.

[He nods at her pushback but says nothing. Fair enough; she would know the circumstances of her world better than he, and she seems convinced of her position.]

[Her following statement carries that same level of conviction, though Siebren is missing something. He has some idea of how Eva's world functions - he'd learned a bit through conversations with her - but he is missing enough information to truly understand.]

I believe I require more context, if you are willing to provide it.

[Eva relaxes a little when he doesn't push it.]

Imagine, if you will, that you are huddled in a house. That you pray and plead and hope that that storm off the coast, the one that's been there for days, the one that stops the fishing fleets from going out, that not even the bravest of stormriders will go near, doesn't bring something far, far worse than rain and thunder with it when it does eventually make landfall.

[Yet her face says it's happened before; that she's seen the aftermath of said storms.] That it doesn't attract a god or ten and make everything worse. That when you have to go out to drive the monsters off that it's not as bad as last time, yet you know you'll still end up with death and blood as good people die to protect a town.

You hide inside the same house because the winter was so bad it drove in monsters that typically avoid human settlement, but also brought predatory ice-types and yuki-onna right into towns, never mind your town has to deal with idiots who lose control of their monsters for so many reasons it's not funny, only sad and tragic. You have to deal with the aftermath- [Eva cuts herself off with a shuddering breath.]

Now put all that with human intelligence- Gods. She's a person, yes. Yet, and I do mean yet, she has all the instincts of a monster and I know what side of her would win out if, say, something spooked her, or attacked her or the like-

[Eva looks him dead in the eyes now.] It's not the human side.

Is it any wonder the world hates and fears them so much? Why I'm- I'm a Traitor to them?

Edited 2021-06-20 10:49 (UTC)

[What Siebren gets from this is that Eva's world is perpetually on the precipice of disaster; that it is the efforts of the powerful and the compassionate that keeps it from toppling off that precipice completely; and that the existence of powerful, sapient pokemon, like the child she's talking about, threaten that delicate balance with their very existence.]

[Ah.]

I cannot say it is, if your world is in such peril on a regular basis.

But you say she is a child - children can learn, and you have proven with your team that you are a capable trainer. If she is amenable to it, perhaps it is only a matter of time and hard work for her to be able to learn to control her instincts and her powers.

[It will not fix the problem immediately, no, but affecting societal change is a long and difficult process. Perhaps this would be a start.]

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