Reserved @ Siren's Pull & Vatheon

[heartandsoul]

Are you sure about this?

No, I'm being serious here, are you sure you can handle this? It's not really fair to put me in these places when you're so...well, like you. You know what I mean, slow!

I know you miss Vatheon, I guess I kind of miss it too, and Soul is all alone in that weird port place...but still! Don't take on more than you can handle!

What do you mean I'm being a hypocrite? I never take on more than I can handle. Hmph.

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[malignancy]

Finished?

[heartandsoul]

I could go on forever, Hamlet.

[malignancy]

I have no doubts you could.

Perhaps someone will cut that tongue out one day.

[heartandsoul]

If I ever meet that person, I'll probably beat them.

[malignancy]

Optimism isn't practical.

[heartandsoul]

It's not optimism, it's courage.

1/2

[malignancy]

A rose by any other name...

[malignancy]

... will still get you killed.

[heartandsoul]

Hey, that is Shakespeare.

But a pretty lousy reading, and inaccurate to boot.

[malignancy]

Romeo and Juliet.

Everyone dies in the end.

[heartandsoul]

Because they killed themselves.

Yes, every person will have to die someday, but you can't decide how that happens. You're not a god.

[malignancy]

I can decide the deaths of those that deserve it.

[heartandsoul]

How convenient, that sounds like just the type of person that would end up on Lord Death's most wanted list.

[malignancy]

I'm on several. One more couldn't hurt.

[heartandsoul]

Being on Lord Death's list definitely hurts.

[malignancy]

You think the others are painless?

[heartandsoul]

I was talking about the part where Meisters find and execute whoever is on the most wanted list immediately.

[malignancy]

And yet it seems tame compared to having Five Countries hunting you day and night with kill-on-sight orders.

[he doesn't mention the part about being unable to return home because... that's not home anymore. it's a village full of fools that deserve death]

[heartandsoul]

They probably got sick of you talking about killing things all the time.

1/3

[malignancy]

Killing is a way of life for a shinobi. We are taught how to kill as soon as we can walk.

[malignancy]

They are hypocrites deciding who should live and who should die, playing games of war with people as the game pieces, pitting families against themselves, selfishly sacrificing others to protect themselves.

[malignancy]

And I will kill all of them. Who are you to judge when you know nothing? Is righteous vengeance not a just cause?

[heartandsoul]

It's insanity.

Insanity affects them and you, and you all think you're in the right. But I can't say who is right. I can't judge insanity; I don't understand insanity and I will never be able to, all I can do is keep it out of my soul.

But I can say that killing everyone is not a just cause, it makes you as bad as the people you hate. And if it were up to me, I'd stop you.

[malignancy]

He says he'll stop me. I'll mount his head on a pike for the whole village to see.

[heartandsoul]

Somehow I doubt that. I think a part of you doubts that, too.