mercurialize | Eighteenth

[Public Voice]

I've talked to a few of you about this, but all right. Question. People come here because they have to fix themselves, right? That's rhetorical. My real question is, do they actually deserve it or is it just because they can be changed?

We don't actually have that answer, do we?

[Inmate Filter]

Then, for you guys, is that change even helpful or would you call it harmful to your way of life? Whatever it was before. People make enemies, I know how it is.

[Open Action Spam: Gym]

[Kylar's around every early morning that the Barge isn't on fire or trying to rhyme and sing with itself. With the ka'kari back at his disposal he has a ton of practicing to do. Today's stunt, he tries to coat a training dummy with the ka'kari. Giving it a thick black metalic armor. He knows better than to attack it with Retribution, actually, the ka'kari warned him of that. There will be questions of Why later.

So he tears at it with a dagger attempting every move he can think of. But the dagger is taking far more damage than the ka'kari, in fact, the metal hasn't even dented. When he's done, he wills the ka'kari back into his skin. There's just one problem.]

You ate the dummy!

~Devourer.~

Stop it! I'm supposed to be keeping an eye on this stuff from people destroying it. Not destroying it myself.

~You never learn, do you? First, you complain when I don't obey, now you complain when I do. Which will it be next time?~

You weren't supposed to eat-

[Wait. Is someone else in here?]

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[That irks him, because she can't possibly know that and to believe that would be ridiculous.]

All right, and what makes them so deserving? What about these serial killers and liars makes them unanimously more worthy of a second chance than the innocents they've harmed? In your opinion.

Those innocents deserve second chances as well. Unfortunately, the decision is not up to me.

[He cannot fathom this. Nope. N O P E.]

As well? Why as well?

Because both groups have a chance to be productive and happy in the future.

That doesn't mean they deserve to just because they can.

If there is potential for good in someone, doesn't that mean they deserve to see it through?

[He considers that a moment.]

Do you think all people have this potential?

No. Perhaps that's judgmental of me, but I don't. I think some are too far gone, and could never be persuaded to change.

So that's judgmental but assuming people are good, or deserving, or capable isn't?

And what would you do with those too far gone?

I have been wrong before. So, I err on the side of optimism.

I would make sure they could no longer harm anyone, whatever that took.

You'd do that ... how exactly?

[Because his best guess would be killing them. Or disabling them severely enough to where they couldn't even hurt a fly. There's barely a difference between the two.]

That depends on who they were and what exactly they were doing.

In the example I am thinking of, the Earth-warder did need to be killed. Not to do so would have meant the destruction of our world.

That's fair.

But you're saying someone like that would never be on the Barge though, right? Following what you've already said about deserving and crap.

No. I think bringing him here would be pointless, so it would not happen.

So if for whatever reason he did come here? Then what? Would you really be fine with that?

No. Though I don't believe the Admiral would bring him here, or even that this ship could contain him, frankly.

Really? With all the magic here you're telling me the Admiral wouldn't be able to make one creature fit?

I don't see how. He is larger than the Barge itself. Even with no access to his magic, he could eat most mortals whole.

Huh, guess the Barge does have its limits.

Still though, of all the inmates that have been here there is bound to be one like that guy, right?

I have never seen a dragon as an inmate here ...

Besides, he was far too insane to be redeemed.

But as a warden.. No problem?

Sure! I'm a dragon.

[Give him a second. He had heard of this yet, never connected the dots.]

You fit in the Barge though. Why can't this guy do the same?

I choose to shapeshift, and I can only do so because my powers are available to me. To allow such a thing to Deathwing would be immensely dangerous.

His name is Deathwing? That just sounds like a disaster. Did he pick that or- never mind.

So there's no way the Admiral could just give him that power and nothing else? Or just do it himself?

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