katzepaw: (strip of cloth)

[personal profile] katzepaw 2021-07-13 12:38 pm (UTC)(link)
. . . I don't. The people I know who might consider it, I think are standing down.

[But that doesn't mean everyone; there are people he doesn't really talk to.]
darksubverted: (Screenshot_3)

[personal profile] darksubverted 2021-07-13 02:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Because they wanted to, or because you asked?
katzepaw: (witchwood)

[personal profile] katzepaw 2021-07-13 02:38 pm (UTC)(link)
Because it is too murky. Everyone wants only to know the right thing to do, what will save lives.

Those who thought doing this might help are having second thoughts. But I don't know if this will be enough for everyone.
darksubverted: (Riku (146))

[personal profile] darksubverted 2021-07-13 03:07 pm (UTC)(link)
[He sighs quietly, almost resigned.]

We're not going to know until Friday morning. Are you guys planning to use the glasses again?
katzepaw: (ink mixture)

[personal profile] katzepaw 2021-07-13 03:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, I imagine so. We got pretty lucky last time. Beauregard guessed someone would dump bodies in the river, and she was right.

We'll see if we can get so lucky a second time.
darksubverted: (Screenshot_11)

[personal profile] darksubverted 2021-07-13 05:01 pm (UTC)(link)
I hope you do then. So we'll maybe have a little bit of truth somewhere.
katzepaw: (drop of blood)

[personal profile] katzepaw 2021-07-14 12:50 pm (UTC)(link)
. . . Is it helpful?

I think that's the question we all came to at the end of the last trial. Who to vote for. Catra and Otome both. . . killed someone out of different theories of what would be for the good of all of us.

It seems like Otome's vision must have won out, because we killed Catra.
darksubverted: (Riku (120))

[personal profile] darksubverted 2021-07-14 03:11 pm (UTC)(link)
It's one of the few opportunities we have, in case one of the deaths isn't related at all to what Otome and the rest were trying to accomplish.

I don't like splitting the hairs about who was wrong or less wrong.

It helps. I'll take that much. Even if I don't enjoy the outcome, I have to face that sort of truth, too.
katzepaw: (white feather)

[personal profile] katzepaw 2021-07-14 03:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Sometimes you must split hairs, because we have choices to make about who to side with when both are a little wrong and both are a little right. I want to help whoever will cause the least harm and do the most to help. I certainly didn't want Catra dead for what she did; I understood it. But these are decisions that have to be made.

Were you surprised, when Catra won the vote?
darksubverted: (Riku (107))

[personal profile] darksubverted 2021-07-14 03:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[He frowns.]

Not... exactly. I think what Otome said swayed everyone's opinion, even though Catra may have been trying to help.
katzepaw: (holy water)

[personal profile] katzepaw 2021-07-14 03:59 pm (UTC)(link)
I was a bit surprised. I voted for Catra, but for reasons that were a bit selfish, because I wasn't sure what the right course was.

But it sounds from talking to you that your inclination - and the inclination of the dead it seems - is to protect Otome and the others for a little longer.
darksubverted: (Screenshot_16)

[personal profile] darksubverted 2021-07-14 05:15 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't think some people are going to accept that. They don't want to die, even if there's some kind of promise of being helped.

[Which is fair.]

I'm sure this place won't let us get away with coasting so easily. Letting them kill to help, making sure they don't kill too much. It wants a story, doesn't it?

That's boring. It's going to cause problems no matter what.