but demacia is a kingdom of retributive justice. criminality tends to be seen as something black and white. you're either good or bad - and if you're bad, you don't belong in society. which lux is sometimes critical of and sometimes not.
it's easier to not be critical of it when it's someone she doesn't know. so she reaches for the kill card at first but - hesitates. the thing is, memory week also means she's been reliving all of her sylas trauma already and that was before watching him die - what, a couple days ago? minutes? who knows! and she let him die here when it was him or someone else, but if she had more choice in it... she would rather spare him. even after everything.
... except spare sucks too! "further experiments" what the fuck is that? he does bad things but you think you can get something from him, so you try to force it? maybe it's better to do just die than torture someone like that. god. lux genuinely considers it a greater act of compassion for rae-who-she-is-definitely-projecting-on to settle on kill. so that he doesn't just become a living test subject.
and the second question just gets zero hesitation no matter the consequences. yes, it's better to help people. obviously. chooses the girl who just voted to kill someone. it's fine. ]
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but demacia is a kingdom of retributive justice. criminality tends to be seen as something black and white. you're either good or bad - and if you're bad, you don't belong in society. which lux is sometimes critical of and sometimes not.
it's easier to not be critical of it when it's someone she doesn't know. so she reaches for the kill card at first but - hesitates. the thing is, memory week also means she's been reliving all of her sylas trauma already and that was before watching him die - what, a couple days ago? minutes? who knows! and she let him die here when it was him or someone else, but if she had more choice in it... she would rather spare him. even after everything.
... except spare sucks too! "further experiments" what the fuck is that? he does bad things but you think you can get something from him, so you try to force it? maybe it's better to do just die than torture someone like that. god. lux genuinely considers it a greater act of compassion for rae-who-she-is-definitely-projecting-on to settle on kill. so that he doesn't just become a living test subject.
and the second question just gets zero hesitation no matter the consequences. yes, it's better to help people. obviously. chooses the girl who just voted to kill someone. it's fine. ]