Kuroba Kaito [Kaitou Kid] (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
nowyouseeit) wrote2017-06-21 07:07 pm
nowyouseeit) wrote2017-06-21 07:07 pm
[WEEK 5: Thursday later morning, Room 104; Dirk]
[KNOCK KNOCK DIRK, SOMEONE IS COMING CALLING TODAY!!]
[. . .]
[when Dirk opens the door, he'll find Kaito, and. he's holding a metal trash can lid like a shield]
-- don't jump me yet!
[. . .]
[when Dirk opens the door, he'll find Kaito, and. he's holding a metal trash can lid like a shield]
-- don't jump me yet!
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[He doesn't look away from the horrible ceiling.]
That depends on what 'the same soul' means. Every iteration of a person is connected, and in some sense they share a soul. That would be one way to define it.
On the other hand, each iteration is individual. It's a particular expression of the person's identity. Someone could rip out my soul and other versions of me would be untouched, because our souls are linked without being the same thing. It's like a network of interconnected splinters, and all of them are 'you,' but each one is also its own identity. Craftly could be referring to the holistic soul, meaning every iteration of one person, but he could just as easily not.
[He glances at Kaito sideways.]
You were talkin' about killin' a God. The soul is literally what I'm God of.
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I don't know too much about the soul, honestly. [he's never been much of a spiritualist, honestly] So you're probably more knowledgeable about how that works than I am.
You could ask Craftly about it, but. . . I dunno if he'd be able to answer. He's pretty limited in what he can say, which is one reason it took us so long to figure out the truth ourselves.
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[They're fucked anyway. What's the point in holding back?]
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[he says a bit dryly]
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[He's quiet a moment.]
I won't be able to forgive Emily's death. Maybe I would've made the same choice, who fuckin' knows. I still won't be able to forgive it. I'm going to try to protect her as best I can.
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[. . . he exhales deeply. there's a harsh truth teetering on the tip of his tongue, but he swallows it because it's a truth he doesn't like. and he doesn't at all blame Dirk for being upset and wanting to protect Emily. . . because, hell. he remembers the anger he had felt over learning her fate. maybe he'd be making the same choice as Dirk if their positions were swapped]
[perspective was a funny thing]
Be careful.
And for what it's worth, none of us are going to be asking for forgiveness.
[maybe a little understanding, of the rock and the hard place they had been stuck between ever since learning the truth, but not forgiveness. it wasn't their's to request]
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She would've died anyway, and at least it gets Mabel and Dipper a kinder death than what would've happened to them. There's a logic to your decision, like with all of them.
You know how people feel about things aren't that simple. You made a choice for her, and for the twins, and maybe you didn't have time to ask her her opinion. You sure as fuck couldn't ask the twins. Maybe it'd be too heavy a burden to put on Emily. I doubt the twins will handle it well when they find out the burden is on them now.
The thing is, you know human lives are more complicated than basic mathematics. This game backed you into a corner and made you decide how you'd weigh suffering and death, and now your choice of what you value more or less is coming up for public scrutiny. But it doesn't matter how much your equations make sense if people don't agree to the values you put in.
My guess is that's what you're going to come up against more than anything.
[Because of course there will be disagreements. People have different values. The Hunters chose the values they plugged into their equation but not everyone will see things the same way.]
Think of it this way: you hid everything from us because you value the resurrection of the people here at any cost. Andersen came to us because he valued the human right to chose their own paths. You're both angry because you both feel betrayed, but Andersen at least told us that he was sure you felt you were choosing what was best. If you can't understand why he felt the same way, you're going to have a Hell of a time at this trial making your reasons understandable.