ღ you know i'll take you to another world

[anythingforyou]

[...Well, if nothing else, this trip to Giratina's World has been enlightening if nothing else. Even if everybody just kind of found out nothing that they really wanted to find out, nobody had to die tonight, and frankly, that was enough.

This has to be one of the oddest places to do their usual 'after near death experience' parties, to say the least, but food is generally one of the better cures for such a thing and will be seen to, one way or another. Even in this weird, weird world.

Rest easy, everyone. Even in...quite possibly the most uneasy place known to man.]

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[Well, that's a question.]

...Kinda weird, but not too bad. Some of the conversation got a little awkward, but it's nothing I can't handle.

[greydients]

...likewise.

[This kompot is good and also fascinating, so she'll focus on it for a moment.

...a rather long moment.

...]

...I think, anyway.

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What's on your mind?

[greydients]

[...]

Do you think it's...normal? To be okay with killing someone. Someone bad, I mean.

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[...Okay, that. That's kind of above his pay grade, literally. He's been a mercenary since he was a kid, this doesn't feel like something he should be trying to answer -

But okay. Okay. He just kind of goes quiet for a bit, trying to sort that out.]

I don't think it's not normal? I come from somewhere that not killing them is just giving them an invitation to come back stronger and kick the world's ass. Camilla's the same way. Sometimes you've got to kill people because they're too far gone - they aren't going to come down, and they aren't going to stop. Or maybe they can't stop and you need to put them out of their misery. It's doing everyone a goddamn service at that point, including them.

[And as soon as he's said it, his thoughts shift to that fucking base in China, to holding a gun to that asshole American's head, to how Albert Wesker was one of those people who couldn't stop but it suddenly wasn't okay when it was Wesker, was it - ]

I think Cynthia's just...

[How the hell does he want to phrase this.]

...Sometimes the bad people that need to die have someone that still thinks they're worth something, you know? Even if they're not, even if they're too far gone, there's still going to be someone who gives a damn about them and wants them to come back and be a normal person. And I think Cynthia's kind of like that for Cyrus right now.

I'm not saying we're wrong, or she's wrong, or anyone's not normal or something. It's just kind of fucked up all around, you know?

[greydients]

[Rey doesn't make any effort to interrupt Jake as he speaks, and she remains silent for a while after he finishes, swirling her half-finished kompot around in its jar.]

...it feels right for me, too.

[Again, silence, more swirling kompot.

...]

...I think I've worked out what's...bothering me so much about it. What Cynthia said.

I'm jealous.

[This time, there's only a second' pause before Rey continues, her voice picking up a slight amount of speed as she continues to talk.]

I wish I had her viewpoint. I wish that it didn't feel so easy to kill the bad people, the ones who deserve to die, who should die. I've killed before, and I don't regret any of it. I did what had to be done. But the idea of it just seemed so abhorrent to her and it made me feel like some sort of...I don't know, a monster, or something like that, and I know that wasn't her intention but I just...

[Shaking her head, Rey stares determinedly at the ground.]

...needed to vent, I suppose. Sorry, I just...knew you'd understand. Better than most.

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It's okay.

[And that's immediate, and from the sound of it, it is okay.]

It's...weird, hearing her talk like that. I don't think she blames us for it, though, even if she thinks the act itself is pretty fucked up.