Sun rises, night falls, sometimes the sky calls...

[demonicbeauty]

Who: Ariadne and various (hit me up if you want a starter!)
What: Ariadne keeping busy and being bad at processing her feelings
When: Throughout January
Where: Various, but mostly Serenity Garden

Content Warnings: Backstory trauma likely to come up, discussion of Jedi/Sith violence, will update as needed.

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[demonicbeauty]

No. Not right. You're missing the point on purpose, Anakin. I'm talking about the fact that innocent people don't deserve to die!

[Well. No one deserves to die. Not even the worst of the worst. But that's too hard to put into words for him, especially when he's being evasive.]

Dean was innocent. My brothers were innocent. You just going off and killing him was no better than the warlord who slaughtered an entire race.

You're a Jedi. You're supposed to be better than that. A good person. And I think you want to be.

Or am I wrong?

[facultative]

Is he innocent? He's never hurt someone? Lived a perfect life without fault? None of us are innocent and none of this matters at all. You live, you die, you live again, you die again. There's no meaning here to what we do, it'll all be wiped clean eventually.

I could be the greatest person ever here and none of it will change what I am, what I become.

[He's still grappling with certain details that means it's not possible for him to yet understand the impact his actions had on others.]

So you'll just have to be happy when I say I have no reason to do it again.

[demonicbeauty]

And who the heck has lived a perfect life without fault? That's an impossible standard.

[Even Ariadne, the multiverse's sunniest optimist knows that.]

Innocent hardly means perfect. And accusations hardly mean the truth. You need to stop seeing things in absolutes. Because, no, that's not good enough, Anakin. The killing needs to stop. This isn't a war! And not everyone comes back.

[There's the slightest twinge of anger and regret beneath the surface of that one. She's lost people. It never gets easier.]

I don't care what you are or what you become back home. No, that's not true. Of course I care.

[Empathy is kind of built into her nature.]

But you're living here. And maybe for the rest of your life. So unless you just want to join the Sith and move in with Maul, you need to shape up! Actions have consequences and, right now, your actions are making you look like a real butthead!