I know they said the end is near

[dohaeris]

Who: sansa, various
What: april catchall
When: throughout april
Where: around....

Content Warnings: in the comment headers, character warnings in app.

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[fromshadows]

[ Blake listens carefully, fascinated, absorbing every scrap of knowledge that she can. Being so new, she's still unfamiliar with how a lot of this world works, and she only has the most basic of knowledge on the Pthumerians. And that's precisely why she feels so unqualified to have an opinion on Hali's proposal: whatever the outcome, it would enormously affect the people of Trench, and that should be a decision for the people to make. Blake's a huge believer in proper representation of populations. To that end, she thinks the people that have been here for years will have far more valuable insight than she has right now, and they should be the ones making that decision. ]

You're... not wrong. People can be just as cruel, or capricious, or whimsical, or power hungry. The Pthumerians aren't unique in that way.

[ But the average human doesn't have the ability to make an entire city have to spout their most painful memory to a stranger, or curse them with asphyxiation unless they're touching. Then again, are those things really any worse than what humans are capable of in numbers? Wars, genocides, oppression. Blake's only been here a month; the memory of a once-trusted General threatening to kill an entire city to save another is still fresh in her mind. ]

In the first vision, Hali seemed to promise that the Outpost would be more protected against corruption and danger. More protected than Trench, at least. Do you think they're capable of that? That that's actually possible?

[ With Ruby and Ange's recent bout of corruption, well, protection against that is... a concern that's at the top of Blake's priority list right now. ]

I guess I don't understand why this new child of a Pthumerian is offering that, when none of the others did. [ Pensive, Blake's gaze goes to the portal again. These Valyrians that Sansa spoke of do sound like an approximation of the Patrons; people that had access to some sort of power that others didn't, using it to rule with an iron fist. Though Blake wasn't alive to see it in her own world, she knows that's happened on Remnant too, with the only two people that could use magic acting as gods for a time. People or Pthumerians, they both act the same. ] Is Hali just... nicer? More concerned with our wellbeing?