Eighteenth

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[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?]

Comments

[mercurialize]

I don't know. Something about that doesn't sound right to me.

[voluntaryapnea]

How so?

[mercurialize]

Doesn't that sound like it ignores justice, to you?

[voluntaryapnea]

[He considers that for a long moment, tapping a pen on his desk and chewing his lower lip.]

I think it depends on how you define justice. And redemption, for that matter. And probably also the crimes that were committed. Back home for me, if you break the law and get caught, it all depends on what you've done. Sometimes the punishment fits the crime, sometimes...not so much. I don't think any system's perfect as far as justice goes, I guess. I think what matters is that we try.

[mercurialize]

When does it not fit the crime where you're from? In your opinion.

[voluntaryapnea]

Well for instance if someone has to spend ten years in prison because they were caught smoking marijuana. Or -- you know life in prison because you killed someone in self-defense.

[mercurialize]

This happens often?

[voluntaryapnea]

Yep. So like I said, the whole justice thing is pretty skewed in a lot of cases.

[mercurialize]

I guess so.

We don't really have a justice system where I'm from. Unless you do something against a noble's family and are caught doing it, the guards are usually easy to pay off. They don't even step foot in the worst places. If you want justice you have to do it yourself. It's been run more by the corrupt for decades now. I think the late king preferred it that way.

[voluntaryapnea]

Well that's disturbing.

[mercurialize]

[He definitely takes offense to that.]

That's life for a lot of people.

[voluntaryapnea]

[He hears the defensiveness in his tone and he pauses, then shakes his head.]

I meant it's disturbing that the guards aren't willing to help. That it's been so corrupt for so long.

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They'd be killed otherwise. Armor won't save you against an angry mob, or a group of kids waiting on rooftops with rocks.

[Which he may or may not have been a participant of, though not against a guard.]

There is a new king, a capable one, but it will take time to improve. And everything is going to be fighting against him along the way.

[voluntaryapnea]

You mean the people who are happy about the way things are, I assume.

[mercurialize]

Of course, a lot of countries rely on us doing nothing.

But anyways, my point is if a justice system penalizes improperly, then maybe justice isn't served and ignoring the justice done is acceptable. But when you have to go out and seek justice on your own, only to have it completely undone... I can't agree with that. Even if this way might seem better to some.

[voluntaryapnea]

Yeah if they're benefiting from it in some way, they won't want change. [It makes sense even if he doesn't like it. It's just the nature of people. Or at least the nature of some people anyway. Not all.]

Okay, so what justice have you sought out that's being completely undone?

[mercurialize]

Right now? Nothing I know of. But I can think of more than a few people I'd never want to see here, and they the same with me.

[voluntaryapnea]

So what in your eyes makes a person undeserving of a shot at redemption?

[mercurialize]

Murdering people until they can no longer remember how many they've killed.

[voluntaryapnea]

...yeah, that's...pretty reasonable.

[mercurialize]

I thought so too. Apparently the Admiral thinks otherwise.