#interlude 7

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[Wind and Truth: Interlude 7]

Oh this fucker

That's sort of a joke. I love his character, but I hate him. There's something to be said about righteous vengeance with Elhokar, and in a different time, against a different person, killing him could have been good for the people. But what killed Moash's grandparents wasn't the manipulated boy-king, it was those manipulators and the systems that let them do it. Elhokar was trying to be better, even if he sucked at it. In addition, this was a very dire time, and there's a war to exterminate or enslave humans. Not a great time to dismantle human government. As for Teft, well, he was mentally manipulated by a god, but he did make the choice. Much like Dalinar and the Thrill. Also, Moash decided to fight for the side of the god of hate, that one's pretty obvious.

Mildly related, this reread, I felt like Adolin killing Sadeas in that scene was supposed to make me feel bad, like it was a morally bad move. I don't. Besides Adolin being perfect and unable to do wrong, that guy was literally going to try to kill Dalinar again. I'd prefer stripping his power, or imprisonment if that wouldn't work, but that's the solution we got. Something needed to happen.

Anyway, Odium has a point that without cost, people really would do what was right naturally. Generally, and not without a community of help for judicial stuff, but people want to help and build, mostly.

"Equal odds" yeah right loser, you can't even see him because he's got Renarin and Rlain right there

I haven't really thought through this idea, but as Moash says Elhokar would have never seen justice, I thought about the decisions power must make. A truly good king, or anyone down to a military officer, would make every choice they can in order to do right. However, sometimes you make a bad call. People can get killed from that. But, do we have the right to prosecute bad calls? People died, yes, but not for lack of trying. Failure happens. Can we prosecute every failure, even in those who otherwise do excellent?

Even right after that, Odium says Moash can decide who is punished or rewarded. I think he's lying anyway, but that's way too much power in one guy. One guy isn't gonna make the right decision every time. And they'll have biases and perspectives and everything. Moash would make a mistake, and someone innocent would die, especially on the timescale Odium promises. Should he be killed as Elhokar was? (Also, he has already killed innocents in his path)

Ooh he's been spiked though, that's super cool, thanks Battah

[got-into-worm-by-mistake]

When the first three Wards teams were established, she was enlisted.  She barely knew a hundred words of English, her numbers and the alphabet, when she first went out in costume.

Even by the 'Child Soldiers' standards that are the Wards, holy fuck that's messed up.

I mean, the Wards are the band-aid on a problem there's no easy solution to - superheroes want to use their powers, need to use their powers, and will thus draw attention to themselves and get forcibly recruited or killed -

I mean, we're apparently led to believe (I don't know if this is from WoG, or PRT Quest or if it's later laid out on the text of Worm itself) that Brockton Bay is unusual in how much it's Wards actually get into fights as opposed to just charity events, showing the flag and other PR stuff that's low-danger, but given conflict drive and all that, is that actually any better? Probably, but it has to have it's downsides, one assumes?

Worm is basically just full of this worldbuilding that creates these horrifying 'damned if you do, damned if you don't' type situations.

[rox-reads]

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h-hi?

[tamyrawilliams]

[ @starlit-lilies ]

Things needed to calm down a bit and Tamyra had to make sure Tomas actually wakes up before she could even think about the things she’s heard of Lily and what kind of things she did to Jordano, or the idea that it should be tested, just how big of a favorite of the island Lily really was, or if it was just in her head.

She thought about just springing something dangerous onto Lily out of the blue, without the other really getting the chance to prepare for it, but if it actually goes bad and Tamyra wasn’t right about Lily being a favorite... Things would get ugly.

So instead she decided to just pop by and subtly (or not so subtly, since that wasn’t really her forte) see if she could figure something out.

Tamyra ended up finding Lily by the Hardy House, which really wasn’t that surprising, and Tamyra plopped herself down onto the side of a water-through close to Lily (ignoring the fact that her face was shoved into it not too long ago while she was trying to make sure the house doesn’t burn down to ashes), with a flash of a smile. “How’s the island’s favorite girl doing today?”

Completely and utterly subtle.

[madibyrd]

[ @hazelbeaufort​ ]

“It’s kind of weird, I can’t really explain it but I used to just feel cold and now it’s-- it’s not there. Not that I am complaining, it’s nice, but still don’t know how it was possible. Do you have anything that still lingers for you?” Madi asked, her fingers playing with Hazel’s fingers, tentatively, without her gloves on.

She was aware of what was happening, if she felt like her skin was heating up even just a moment, Madi planned on pulling away immediately, but she wanted to enjoy it, however long this would last.

She wanted to enjoy it with Hazel.

[got-into-worm-by-mistake]

She saw something vast. It wasn’t big in the sense that the trees or even the mountains were big.  It was big in the way that transcended what she could even see or feel.  It was like seeing something bigger than the whole wide planet, except more – this thing that was too large to comprehend to start with, it extended.  She didn’t have a better word to describe what she was perceiving.  It was as though there were mirror images of it, but each image existed in the same place, some moving differently, and sometimes, very rarely, one image came in contact with with something that the others didn’t.  Each of the images was as real and concrete as the others.  And this made it big in a way that she couldn’t describe if she were a hundred year old scholar or philosopher with access to the best libraries in the world. And it was alive.  A living thing.

From what I gather, a lot of people get annoyed when fanfics include trigger events that include stuff like this, or [DESTINATION. AGREEMENT] because not every trigger event has them in canon, so why would every trigger event in fiction have them.

And there's some merit to that, but how many trigger events do we actually fully see onscreen in Worm? So far, I think this is the only one? We probably don't actually see them onscreen from the triggering person's POV, I'd assume. Could be wrong.

But the point is - when you only have so many actual instances to work with, and you're writing a fic, you want to use a common touchstone that everyone is familiar with. Everyone knows, for instance, that [DESTINATION. AGREEMENT] means a trigger event is happening, etc?

It's like in Buffy the Vampire Slayer - we only see Xander eat a Twinkie once, true, but he eats it with such gusto and has a specific way you're supposed to eat it that it seems not unreasonable that he's a fan of them. Plus, there's only so many items of specific food that we see him actually eat onscreen (a large number, yes, but still, only so many) and it certainly fits with his observed personality and habits that he might really like twinkies, a lot.

So yeah, it's not 'canon', but it's a fanfic touchstone because it's what there is to work with, you know? Worm's huge, but there's still tons in the setting that has not been and likely never will be fully explored.

[rox-reads]

omg whats this? a day off AND no prior commitment? well you know what that means!

[rox-reads]

trading yugioh cards but the cards are irl people- wait this is just how sports teams operate