Llama 13 - [Audio]

[mtsilver_conquor]

(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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[schrodingersghost]

[There is a slightly bitter twist to Danny's voice.]

Guess I haven't told you much about how ghosts are seen in my world. Long story short, I'd be right there cheering this person on. If I wasn't breaking in to help out your creature/person myself.

Where do you want to meet?

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[runicfeathers]

I have learned in my years that not all is what it seems to be and that we should not judge someone for doing something, even if that person is deemed evil but in truth is not evil. If they are trying to do the right thing, then I would believe in them and defend them.

[Those words come off personal to her as well, after all, she had fallen in love with one of her people's worst enemies and proven to them that Lythrana was no threat in the end.]

If this is about that horrible sight, you can come to my cabin. It's empty right now save for Nova. I'll bring us drinks and won't be long.

[pleple]

Given... my own origins, I would have to at least... think very, very strongly about how necessary it would be to kill this person.

...I wouldn't want to murder anyone so much like me.

[mtsilver_conquor]

[As much as Eva believes what he's said, the realist in her, the one born from years of keeping secrets, doesn't.

But she has to hope, has to try to believe.] That's- That's good know.

Library's good, or I can get a quiet cabin.

[oncedriven]

Precedent would indicate that I'd more likely be the person in question.

[Asch's tone is, perhaps, a bit blunt. But he's sitting here in resonance with a flesh eater, a flesh eater who is in fact guilty of the reason flesh eaters are universally condemned - sitting here guilty of the same crime himself -

Eva's not the only one who is cut close by her hypothetical. Not that flesh eaters are ever children, since blades aren't, in general, but all the rest? It hits close to home, and that comes out in the barely-contained boil of passion in his voice. It is an issue of justice, after all.]

But especially in the case of a child, who didn't choose to be what they are, I presume - I would be glad to remove from my life anyone who did condemn such a person.

[schrodingersghost]

I'm close to the library, so I guess I'll see you in a few.

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[mtsilver_conquor]

I see. Thanks.

[It's hard, to believe that this right, but she tries anyway.]

I'll meet you there - and grog would be good, if don't mind.

[She means alcohol but also: slang.

True to her word, she'll be waiting outside Willow's cabin. ]

[obliviouspatriarch]

[There's a sharp inhale, that hitting personally enough for him to feel the need to respond.]

I wouldn't care, I protected those who were only evil by having the same surname as our enemies. Those people I protected were innocent, and didn't deserve what happened to them.

[mtsilver_conquor]

[Eva says nothing - she's not even sure what to say to someone who assumes it's about them without giving away the fact it's about her. So she says nothing and focuses on what she can -is willing to- comment on over the ICPs.]

You'd presume correct about this hypothetical child.

[A breath, then-] Anything else related to this hypothetical I'd- I'd rather not blast over the ICP.

[mtsilver_conquor]

Thanks- and I wouldn't want anyone to kill you either. After all, regardless of origins, you're a person just like me.

[And she'd do a murder to keep Ple safe.]

[runicfeathers]

[Willow's heard enough adventurer and human chatter to get the gist of what Eva means, and does her best to find some, but to no avail and instead brings hot cider instead for them both.

Seeing Eva, Willow offers a small smile, opening the door for them to enter.]

There was none of what you'd asked for, cider's fine I hope? And please, come in.

[oncedriven]

[It isn't so much that as that she's not the only person in that position.]

I think that might be for the best, if there's any more information you'd like from my world's equivalent issue. One of the 'quiet' car rooms, perhaps?

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[mtsilver_conquor]

Awesome! See you soon.

[And she'll be there, huddled in her hoodie with Princess on her lap, and Roro by her shoulder. The clefairy's not as good as Skeeta, but he'll do for comfort pet right now.]

[miseris_socios]

I live with people who do things that most people see are wrong. Who were experiments that the company that used them probably want terminated on sight. I'm not in the same sort of situation, but if the 'authorities' found me I'd be dragged to an orphanage, at least.

You protect the people you need to protect. It doesn't matter what anyone else thinks.

[pleple]

I can understand needing to... do something about someone very dangerous, but there needs to be another way. The more time you have, the more that way needs to be figured out.

[schrodingersghost]

[Unlike the last time they'd met, Danny is in his human form as he arrives. He'd mostly given up on explaining, figuring that most of the people who'd been here a while could figure it out. ]

Hey, you okay?

[That illusion had been rough. Even not knowing who any of those people were, he could tell that. ]

[mtsilver_conquor]

Cider's lovely, thanks.

[Eva nods as she enters, a small 'pardon the intrusion' muttered under her breath. It's only polite after all.

And she finds, as she takes a seat, that she has no idea where to start or even how to, more terrifyingly, explain what Giovanni meant without earning an instant kill from someone she's gathered is a very Good and Just person.

(she's distantly aware she's started to catastrophize, but... well, It's just shock. That's all it is. Not PTSD or societal and cultural expectations catching up.

Just shock.)]

[luckydragonsfoot]

So like...I mean I guess yer askin' f'r a reason but...y' can see how 'kill on sight' an' 'child' bein' in th' same spot here make society an' culture an' I dunno probably th' government since there's laws...uh...wrong. Righ'?

Like...they're wrong tha's fucked up.

[The minute you put a Kill On Sight for something childlike and existing is about the moment you need to sit in a corner and think about your life choices, he's pretty sure!]

[mtsilver_conquor]

[HE'S NOT WRONG IN THAT ASSUMPTION!!!

Eva exhales - and then picks her words carefully before metaphorically throwing her hands up because she can't do this on the ICPs. ]

It... This... This isn't... This is better off the ICPs.

[its_dad_sanzo]

If a rule is wrong, it should be broken.

[ Here's Koumyou, the train's resident priest. ]

So with what information you've given, I suspect I would agree with them. But I've never cared for any system that treats people like targets for things they have no control over.

[luckydragonsfoot]

Uhhhh...alrigh'?

....I'm good goin' off ICP I guess, this is jus' where y' were askin'.

[EVA U GOOD??]

[yondu]

Depends on the situation. Did they hurt one of my people? [Because he doesn't have a lot of people and he owes them his loyalty first and foremost.] Did they back somethin' like what happened to me?

It's real situational.

Hope you're recoverin' after all that. [He's not going to say he hopes she's alright because he's guessing from this alone she's not.]

[mtsilver_conquor]

As best I can, and again, thank you. I think... I think I'm gonna try for Skeeta this platform. She's old and a pet, but- you know.

[Never mind she knows where Skeeta'll be 90% of the time: the greenhouse. Because old lady tangela is old.

But, now to the more important thing, and Eva sounds... unsure when she talks. But she has to ask. Has to know.] And if they - the protected person- had no choice in backing what happened to you, what then?

[mtsilver_conquor]

Thanks - and I agree, yet...

[A sigh.]

Sometimes fighting against it hard. Sometimes there's... there's good reasons why the laws in place, even if they are stupid.

[mtsilver_conquor]

[NOT REALLY, NO.

And Jou is welcome to get a vision or hunch that this 10000% relates to her world's mewtwo.]

Awesome. Uh, does the library work? I'm already there, so...?