Yes - but he was extremely wrong about the connections he was trying to force between those cases. That theory was foolish logically - and, frankly, he set up his own noose with the way he was speaking throughout the trial.
[ rip. ] I didn't vote for him - not that that absolves anything. The opinion of the majority in these situations is what matters, ultimately, and that opinion became very clear very quickly.
Neither did I. Still feels terrible though, when you break it down to the basics. I understand why there were that many accusations at the end, but the timing and the stress... it leads to snap decisions.
[ i need to take an eight week USA holiday because the way i woke up this morning like i think i know what happened now it's not 2am made me want to fight myself. ]
... there are probably other reasons too, yes. But confronting harsh truths is something we've had to do before here and we'll probably have to do again.
But the last minute discussion, the yelling. That didn't help if anyone wasn't sure what was going on. It's easy to get swept up in the crowd.
[ and he would know. seeker of the truth, searcher of the light. ]
Hans, in a sense, made himself an easy target. People wanted to believe that he did something wrong, because of his actions both at the beginning, with the ratings, and at the end, and so they saw that as the only truth. Combined with a clearer culprit, and one people didn't want to confront? The easy answer. I can't say that I was surprised, that he was our final choice.
[ she thinks, briefly, of things ryuki doesn't know yet. and the horrible realisation that someone they were all fond of had done something they couldn't take back. ]
It's never easy, having to bring these things to light. And it's worse when you don't have the luxury of going back to fix a mistake, with clearer hindsight. Even back home it's not like things were ever really that kind though.
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Axel showed you the note we got on Thursday, I'm guessing? If Hans doesn't walk out of the execution tomorrow, we're going to have to try and keep Danny and Nimona safe somehow.
[ it's what temenos does. this is a familiar conversation - he's quiet for a moment, thoughtful and reflective as ever, on the past and the present, on the circumstances of their situation and home. the truth is never easy, but the truth is always right.
at the last bit, he tilts his head towards her in a nod. ] He did, yes. It's imperative that information gets out to each team, though carefully done. Though...I think there are quite interesting implications in the actual note itself, too.
That's the implication. [ yeah. i just want you to think about that this implies that the mayor of townsville was in a murdergame. ]
...Not only that, but seeing as how the teams had to be eliminated to reach that point... Does it not also imply that perhaps those killed here are not so dead, after all? Or, at least, that someone has the power to potential return them to life?
I don't think it negates the trauma of the "murder". But--
[ she looks thoughtful. ]
The only way I can think of that happening is if the people walking around are data, or... we'rd all data, and "dying" is just removing us from the active field...
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[ like aside from being gross. ]
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[ rip. ] I didn't vote for him - not that that absolves anything. The opinion of the majority in these situations is what matters, ultimately, and that opinion became very clear very quickly.
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[ some of it, but. ] I understand what you mean.
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... there are probably other reasons too, yes. But confronting harsh truths is something we've had to do before here and we'll probably have to do again.
But the last minute discussion, the yelling. That didn't help if anyone wasn't sure what was going on. It's easy to get swept up in the crowd.
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[ and he would know. seeker of the truth, searcher of the light. ]
Hans, in a sense, made himself an easy target. People wanted to believe that he did something wrong, because of his actions both at the beginning, with the ratings, and at the end, and so they saw that as the only truth. Combined with a clearer culprit, and one people didn't want to confront? The easy answer. I can't say that I was surprised, that he was our final choice.
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[ she thinks, briefly, of things ryuki doesn't know yet. and the horrible realisation that someone they were all fond of had done something they couldn't take back. ]
It's never easy, having to bring these things to light. And it's worse when you don't have the luxury of going back to fix a mistake, with clearer hindsight. Even back home it's not like things were ever really that kind though.
[ ... ]
Axel showed you the note we got on Thursday, I'm guessing? If Hans doesn't walk out of the execution tomorrow, we're going to have to try and keep Danny and Nimona safe somehow.
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[ it's what temenos does. this is a familiar conversation - he's quiet for a moment, thoughtful and reflective as ever, on the past and the present, on the circumstances of their situation and home. the truth is never easy, but the truth is always right.
at the last bit, he tilts his head towards her in a nod. ] He did, yes. It's imperative that information gets out to each team, though carefully done. Though...I think there are quite interesting implications in the actual note itself, too.
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I wonder if the people we keep running into around the city are heroes who failed.
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...Not only that, but seeing as how the teams had to be eliminated to reach that point... Does it not also imply that perhaps those killed here are not so dead, after all? Or, at least, that someone has the power to potential return them to life?
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I don't think it negates the trauma of the "murder". But--
[ she looks thoughtful. ]
The only way I can think of that happening is if the people walking around are data, or... we'rd all data, and "dying" is just removing us from the active field...
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uh huh ]
.... I will let you theorize on that.
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