I. | audio | un: sparkler

[flashystyle]

Is... is this thing on? [Excuse the uh, distinct sound of someone tapping a screen like an old person.] Hello? Oh! There you are. Excellent.

So, now that we've gotten the world's-- sorry, the universe's biggest trust fall known to man and not-man, I think it's time we start popping the question. The real question. No hypotheticals, no, excuse me, [Dorian voice turning a pitch higher in imitation of... someone? Who knows. This is probably the collective voice of all of you. It's incredibly inaccurate.]

If I had the chance, I'd do it! They're a bad person! They killed hundreds of people, or... or one time they looked at me funny and they had shiny things galore! [ahem] We've all had drama against one another, with no real way of proving they're a terrible person other than the game of he said, she said, so! Let's get straight to it, shall we?

Have you, yes, you, killed someone or... something? Poof, gone, light left their eyes if they have them, turns out they're dead forever or it's like a five-minute deal. Whatever have you; it still counts if they stopped breathing.

If yes, why? Should we all expect a knife in our back? Get electrocuted to death? Be made to walk off a cliff? What are the qualifiers for this sort of thing, really? Personal vendettas? OR... perhaps you were playing the hero. [the deets, give the sweet deets.]

If no, well... I didn't think that far ahead, truth be told. You're more than likely surrounded by murderers, so... what's... a food you miss? Murderers can probably answer this as well, perhaps we'll find some sort of connection. [or, like, just listen to how many people you met have killed someone? have fun with that.]

Comments

[flashystyle]

I'm not your Chantry boy, I don't need you to confess. I'm simply sating a curiosity, and you're being ridiculous.

[goldcliffe is going to haunt him now]

What qualifies as deserving it, then?

[ruffboi]

For the most part I think it's context. If someone is rushing you with a sword or magic, there's not generally time to stop and talk it out. Or if you're fighting soldiers or guards, it's not ideal, but it's something they signed up for? And then there's just, uh, dangerous people? Sometimes it's worse to let people live than it is to kill them.

[He seems, for someone who was very defensive, pretty upfront and not ashamed to talk about it.]

I think you're overthinking this. I don't hurt anyone who can't defend themselves, and anyone who does hurt people like that deserve to go down. But I'm not exactly sneaking around and shanking anyone in the middle of the night. If I intend to kill you, you'll see me coming.

[flashystyle]

That's generally not a good thing... Being seen coming, that is. Especially when you factor in long ranged attacks, and the opportunity for the element of surprise, and- Wait, why am I bothering? All you heavy armor type are the same.

[He's not wrong, though? Dorian has no way to argue most of those points, because he's faced literally all of those types. Ha, well, uh.]

You can't stop and talk it out with that attitude. You never know! Perhaps your enemy's vulnerability is their emotional insecurity. Try it next time, for the both of us.