[ text ] un: aragaki; like 4 am

[petsthedog]

[It comes on the network like an intrusive thought -- because it is. Because Shinjiro can't sleep, even with all the talk of distracting activities like movies and pumpkin carving and costume parties. (Where do you even get costumes on a spaceship, anyway?)

Because he can't stop thinking about what Olexa said in that building, at the end. Would you die trying to get that stone back? Cheri's motivations were selfish, but then, aren't theirs too? So-Yeon's hadn't been, and while she'd surrendered the orb, what if she hadn't? What about the next mission?]

do you think the orb is worth killing people for

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[retributioning]

I suppose.

But I also think people are killed in all the worlds for much worse reasons. If someone needs to die for us to get the orb, then they die.

[petsthedog]

you don't know what everyone's regrets are
maybe someone's pissed they didn't get to take over their world

does it really even matter why someone dies
one corpse ain't different from another cause they died for a "good" reason

[retributioning]

I don't, and I don't really care to, either.

It doesn't matter, of course, though I doubt many here would admit it.

Everyone dies sooner or later, anyway. How do we know someone we kill wouldn't fall off a horse the next day and die? We don't.

[petsthedog]

just sayin, our reasons for the orb might not be better than anyone else's
and you're right
death just happens sometimes
but that ain't exactly an excuse to go murdering people for kicks either
so
there's limits and shit
was just wonderin about the crew's

[And having a lowkey existential crisis, it's nbd]

[retributioning]

I doubt most people in this crew would go for murdering people for fun, from what I've seen. Most seem to be against killing even when it's warranted.

So, did you get the answers you were looking for? If you were hoping others' answers would help you find your own, I think you're out of luck. Everyone has to decide on what they stand for on their own.

[petsthedog]

people keep talkin like our choices on these missions're just our own
when everyone benefits from any of us gettin the orb
if someone decided they'd just murder everyone in the way of gettin them and we all looked the other way cause we ain't the ones doin it, that's still on us

[....so yeah. definitely did not get answers he was satisfied with. definitely feeling A Way about it!!]