[ imagine a world where you hadn't pointed a broken umbrella spear at him the first time he met you... ]
Y-yeah. It's just... things work really differently than they did in the last thing I was in. Or at home. Like, you know, the killers were always people who made a choice to murder someone! So they kind of deserved whatever they got!
I thought... some of the stuff you said back there was good. It was really bugging me how so many of them seemed ready to just go along with it, even knowing it wasn't her fault. I know there wasn't any good answer, and they probably weren't really wrong, but. I don't know.
[ his usually serious expression eases into a small smile. ]
...I am glad you feel the same. Even if it does not change the outcome, it is easier to trust someone when you know they struggle over these sorts of choices.
[ he doesn't like pretending it's easy or logical, or that there's a 'right' answer. it's difficult to have faith in someone who makes these decisions without hesitation, without remorse.
his mirth is brief. ]
I learned in my previous experience that these places will do all in their power to make monsters of us. Forcing someone to kill, and then forcing us to punish them... it all plays into that.
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Oh, um. It's fine!
[ maybe not completely convincing since he just flinched and jumped backwards, but. ]
...H-how are you doing?
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[ he keeps a few steps away since it seems like sebastian is afraid of him. which is fair. ]
I should ask you that, really—you seem unaccustomed to... all that happens here.
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Y-yeah. It's just... things work really differently than they did in the last thing I was in. Or at home. Like, you know, the killers were always people who made a choice to murder someone! So they kind of deserved whatever they got!
...But this isn't like that, I guess.
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dimitri gets the feeling that killing isn't so cut and dry most places, but, ]
Of course. Those that take a life should be prepared for the consequences.
...However, these places tend to complicate matters. It forces us to weigh lives in a way that we have no business doing.
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[ ... ]
I thought... some of the stuff you said back there was good. It was really bugging me how so many of them seemed ready to just go along with it, even knowing it wasn't her fault. I know there wasn't any good answer, and they probably weren't really wrong, but. I don't know.
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...I am glad you feel the same. Even if it does not change the outcome, it is easier to trust someone when you know they struggle over these sorts of choices.
[ he doesn't like pretending it's easy or logical, or that there's a 'right' answer. it's difficult to have faith in someone who makes these decisions without hesitation, without remorse.
his mirth is brief. ]
I learned in my previous experience that these places will do all in their power to make monsters of us. Forcing someone to kill, and then forcing us to punish them... it all plays into that.