bookpapers: (also this outfit)

[personal profile] bookpapers 2023-03-03 02:01 am (UTC)(link)
For the pursuit of knowledge?

[there's a dry edge to his voice that shows what he thinks of that,]

All those people who died are worth less compared to the world they think they're trying to save. It all comes down to numbers, in the end.
bookpapers: (how should i know...)

[personal profile] bookpapers 2023-03-03 02:27 am (UTC)(link)
Pretty much.

It probably helped that the humans who died in those experiments thought the same too. That their life wasn't as important compared to ending the war.
bookpapers: (backshot)

[personal profile] bookpapers 2023-03-03 03:10 am (UTC)(link)
[yeah, he figured Nameless would think so...]

It's crazy, huh? What people can sacrifice when they're made to believe. [...] But the people I should be judging are the ones that put them there in the first place.
bookpapers: (flops)

[personal profile] bookpapers 2023-03-04 03:13 pm (UTC)(link)
That if they die, the lives of their loved ones can at least go on living? That if they put 'em on a scale, the world obviously wins out? There's no guarantee that they'll live, but at least in death they have a chance to ensure everyone else's future?

[he slumps further in his seat]

They don't have to know that it ends in failure, if they're dead.
bookpapers: (soldiers)

[personal profile] bookpapers 2023-03-06 01:23 am (UTC)(link)
...I don't know how much information they were privy to. But I'm assuming that it wasn't a lot.
bookpapers: (eyes on the horizon)

[personal profile] bookpapers 2023-03-07 03:43 pm (UTC)(link)
[...]

Not everyone gets to know the truth, even when they deserve it.
bookpapers: (runs dramatically into the light)

[personal profile] bookpapers 2023-03-09 12:20 am (UTC)(link)
[Lavi watches, like the audience he's meant to be. He watches like the Bookman he still thinks he should be. And he watches, as someone who knows Nameless and has come to care for him, despite good sense and what he's done.

He doesn't flinch, but he stiffens. Grows very still at the first strike, then the other. Compares this end to another. And finally, moments after the memory ends.]


...You deserved to live.

[grief presses at the edges of his words, words that can do nothing in the end.]

You should have gotten that second chance.
bookpapers: (I HATE IT HERE)

[personal profile] bookpapers 2023-03-10 03:25 am (UTC)(link)
[he doesn't want to argue that. It'd feel just like rubbing salt into a wound.]

...And maybe this time it'll stick.