la_belle_rogue: (crossed arms)
Rogue | Anna Marie ([personal profile] la_belle_rogue) wrote2014-08-03 08:08 pm

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[Rogue doesn't look happen when she turns on the feed. In fact, she seems grim and pensive. She's sitting at the island in her kitchen, arms folded across the counter top, leaning over them heavily. She takes a moment to gather her thoughts before she starts speaking.]

Ah wanna talk about choices for a minute. This place is very unique, in that it offers up an option that should be the hard choice, and makes it look like the easy choice.

Killin' someone should never be considered the right thing to do. Sometimes it's the necessary thing. Sometimes it's the only thing we can do, when faced with an extreme situation. Life or death. Kill or be killed. But the Barge warps that into an easy go to and it shouldn't be. Not every option is life or death, kill or be killed.

Sometimes we find ourselves between rocks and hard places. And in those times our choices are either bad or worse. But just because a choice might not be a good one, doesn't mean that it's not the better one. Just because a choice leaves a mess behind, doesn't mean it's not better than the alternative.

Now before ya'll start in on how death isn't permanent here, let me just say this: Ah. Don't. Care. Wardens are here ta help people get their lives back, and actin' cavalier 'bout takin' someone's life is pretty counter productive ta that, from where Ah'm standin'.

We've got a lot of extraordinary people here, who can do amazin' things, but we have become frighteningly dependent on one lone miracle. We're treatin' death like a time out. Death should be the hardest choice we make, no matter what world we're from, no matter how many reset buttons the Admiral is willin' ta press for us. It never should be treated lightly. Even in a place where it doesn't stick. And we certainly shouldn't get angry at someone when they choose not ta take a life, no matter what mess comes with that choice. Don't ya see how backwards this is? And we've been doin' it for a long time here. Ah imagine a lot longer than Ah've been around, and Ah can honestly say Ah'm ashamed for not payin' attention t'it sooner and speakin' up about it before now.

[She shakes her head, sits back. What else can she say on this?]

That's all Ah've got ta say.
godsays: (66)

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[personal profile] godsays 2014-08-04 03:00 pm (UTC)(link)
I live in pain.
youwill: (Chesapeake Ripper's the name)

[personal profile] youwill 2014-08-04 03:02 pm (UTC)(link)
We have already established that it was prompted by what was done to me.
godsays: (79)

[personal profile] godsays 2014-08-04 03:04 pm (UTC)(link)
She's talking about killing.

What's the difference between what Dillon did and knocking you unconscious? Besides your injured pride.
voluntaryapnea: (turned away)

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[personal profile] voluntaryapnea 2014-08-04 03:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Good.
youwill: (but now that I'm famous)

[personal profile] youwill 2014-08-04 03:09 pm (UTC)(link)
This is not a question of pride. It's a mockery of free will. It is an erasure of self.

He remade me in his image. You should understand how that feels.
godsays: (89)

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[personal profile] godsays 2014-08-04 03:09 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm sorry.
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[personal profile] godsays 2014-08-04 03:10 pm (UTC)(link)
You're fine.
youwill: (whenever you tell me that I'm pretty)

[personal profile] youwill 2014-08-04 03:11 pm (UTC)(link)
An easy judgement to pass, when observing from a distance.
godsays: (97)

[personal profile] godsays 2014-08-04 03:12 pm (UTC)(link)
You'd know. That's all you ever do.
youwill: (Jeffrey Dahmer pls)

[personal profile] youwill 2014-08-04 03:15 pm (UTC)(link)
I do not narrow my gaze.
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[personal profile] godsays 2014-08-04 03:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Yes, you do. You do, like a microscope.

Maybe now you understand what it is when you try to make someone else in your image.
youwill: (I guess we could switch to Lady Gaga)

[personal profile] youwill 2014-08-04 03:28 pm (UTC)(link)
[There. He sees his path, and all at once it becomes easier to breathe evenly.]

If you wish me to understand powerlessness, Zane, then you know the method. You'll have ample time to convince others that spending the rest of my life having my will taken away is justice.
godsays: (Default)

[personal profile] godsays 2014-08-04 03:31 pm (UTC)(link)
The Barge isn't about justice! That's why I've stayed away from you!
theresalwayshope: (up} wary / ummmm...maybe?)

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[personal profile] theresalwayshope 2014-08-04 03:40 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm sorry for that.
godsays: (25)

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[personal profile] godsays 2014-08-04 03:41 pm (UTC)(link)
why
youwill: (that 'I'm pissed off' thumb twitch thing)

[personal profile] youwill 2014-08-04 03:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Not far enough that you can't enjoy my torment. Perhaps Arthas was right, and Dillon should improve the whole of the ship.
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[personal profile] godsays 2014-08-04 03:47 pm (UTC)(link)
That would be pointless. You don't get it. I think you should experience that. You, exactly, for thinking you can remake everyone to suit you. For thinking it's beautiful, or fun.

If I didn't stay away from you, I would just want to kill you. Over and over again. Not because I think you should experience it. Because I would like it.
theresalwayshope: (up} dubious / pouty)

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[personal profile] theresalwayshope 2014-08-04 03:49 pm (UTC)(link)
Because you were under the influence of that gas.

Would you have gone after Stiles without it?
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[personal profile] godsays 2014-08-04 03:49 pm (UTC)(link)
No. But someone else wouldn't have gone after him even with it.
youwill: (now I'm gonna eat you fool!)

[personal profile] youwill 2014-08-04 03:51 pm (UTC)(link)
And this is the manner of man meant to redeem us.

Explain how that is so different from what you believe I do.
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[personal profile] godsays 2014-08-04 03:53 pm (UTC)(link)
I know to stop myself.
youwill: (franklyn pls)

[personal profile] youwill 2014-08-04 04:07 pm (UTC)(link)
You know to control yourself.

Something that was removed from both of us during the event.
notsoneedy: (boo)

[video ; private]

[personal profile] notsoneedy 2014-08-04 04:17 pm (UTC)(link)
Whoa.

[That's all she's got to say at first, New Friend. Damn, but she only thought she knew that you were hardcore.]
notsoneedy: (and your mind to me)

[voice ; private]

[personal profile] notsoneedy 2014-08-04 04:20 pm (UTC)(link)
So...your special secret power is killing other people. Basically.

[She's not judging, she's just very...something. Surprised, she guesses. She knew Duke had to be special in some way but this is a little bit more than that.]
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[personal profile] godsays 2014-08-04 05:10 pm (UTC)(link)
I know I should control myself. Because it's right.

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