[Sometime in the morning before noon, Rossiu will receive an audio message on his Gear.]
Good morning, Rossiu-san. I hope you have been doing well! The weather is a lot warmer recently, so if you decided to travel on foot I hope that has helped make your traveling a little easier.
But anyway, um...I just wanted to make sure you were doing okay. I will be around all day today, so you don't have to call back right away if you're in the middle of traveling. Most any time would be fine.
[He pauses a moment.]
Oh- my Porygon also wanted me to tell you that he says hello, to both you and yours.
[Rossiu replies with an audio post as well nearly an hour after Chihiro calls him. He's in a Pokémon Center and wearing the uniform of the workers, so it looks like he's been a bit busy.]
Hello. Thanks for calling to check up on me. I've been doing alright. I made it to Violet City a few days ago. I think I'm going to stay here for a little while - it's much larger than anything I'm used to!
[Well, the biggest city he's used to. Nothing is topping Dai-Gurren in terms of size.]
Ah, I think Dimension wants to say hello as well!
HELLO FRIEND!
[It looks like Rossiu's Porygon is still in the 'Gear.]
I'M GLAD TO HEAR FROM YOU AGAIN, FRIEND! HOW HAVE YOU BEEN?
Thank you! I got the idea from some of the people in Cherrygrove; they were trying to explain the technology behind Porygon to me, but I didn't understand much of what they said.
[Giant fighting robots make way more sense, okay.]
Violet's been very nice! I'm afraid I'm going to get lost between the inn and the Pokémon Center, but it's a wonderful new experience.
I HAVE BEEN /WELL/ CURRENT OBJECTIVE: IN SEARCH OF TRAINERS WHO CAN MAKE PIE I WILL PROVIDE FURTHER INFORMATION AS IT SURFACES
[Chihiro chuckles softly on the other end. Not at Rossiu, mind, but at the Porygon antics going on while they talk.]
That is understandable. They are...very interesting creatures. But I have found that the easiest way to learn about them is to talk to them directly. They're more than happy to tell you everything they know.
Oh, hopefully you won't! It's usually pretty straightforward...but if you are worried, maybe you can remember what landmarks are around so you will be able to find your way back easily.
MAY YOUR SEARCH FOR PIE BE VERY **FRUITFUL** GET IT, IT'S A JOKE BECAUSE THERE IS FRUIT IN SOME PIES
[He's not surprised about Dimension's interest, it's a very talkative Porygon and usually communicates with Rossiu through the 'Gear. He's a lot slower at reading the texts, so he'll check what they've been saying later.]
I've been talking to Dimension through the 'Gear, but I also obtained a Psychic-type who can help. It's been nice talking to them and learning more about them.
Thanks for the advice. I'm sure I'll learn my way around eventually, but Dimension and the others have been good about figuring out where I need to go.
HA HA HA YES THAT WAS A /VERY/ CLEVER JOKE DIMENSION! :>
That's good! They should help you out a lot, then.
[It's a good thing that arriving with a Pokemon comes standard with this place. It helped keep Chihiro from worrying about Rossiu too much, at least.]
I was actually going to tell you...I'm planning on breeding a new clutch of eggs sometime in the next few weeks. If you notice something you like when I do, I would be happy to let you have one of them. Most of them should have some very useful moves right from the start.
THANK YOU VERY MUCH! I HAVE BEEN WORKING VERY HARD ON COMING UP WITH JOKES! MY TRAINER DOES NOT SEEM TO HAVE A SENSE OF HUMOR SO I WOULD LIKE TO HELP HIM!
Oh, that would be nice! I can pay you for it, that won't be a problem! I'm trying to get at least one of every type of Pokémon, but I don't really want to get overwhelmed with the number of Pokémon I'm training...
You really don't have to though, you know. I would be more than happy to just let you take one of them so your roster can grow. All I want is to be sure they are all going to good homes, after all.
I want to be able to target any Pokémon's weakness, so I figure the best way to do that is to have one of every type available for battle.
[It seems to be the most efficient way, since he can't figure out how to cover all his type weaknesses. He's still learning.]
Ah, no, I couldn't just take it for free! I can certainly provide a good home, but I wouldn't want to take it without giving you some sort of payment.
[His expression softens after a moment though.]
...Everyone has been so kind here. You're not the first person who has offered to let me have an egg for free. That's not the extent of it, of course, that's what made me think of it. I'm... really glad I'm here.
I'm very glad to hear that. Most of the people living here are very nice, and they don't mind helping each other out. Many breeders are more than happy to give away their eggs for free to new trainers.
But if you do want to pay for it, that's fine too. I hope to breed quite a few eggs this time, so you should have a lot of different types to choose from.
That sounds excellent. I already have Normal, Psychic, Fairy, Fire, Ice, Rock, Poison, and Flying, though several Pokémon I have are dual types. I'm not sure if that's more useful or less useful.
So many already...you should be able to get the rest in no time, then.
Dual types can be very useful, yes! Though, I think it very much depends on what you plan on using them for. Sometimes they can be tricky for battles, due to having an extra type to think about...but that also makes them stronger, too.
I wonder if there's a type combination that isn't weak to anything... Though I suppose that would make the Pokémon incredibly powerful if it had no weaknesses.
Thank you for the advice, I'll be sure to be careful!
[It's taken him a while to get in contact with Rossiu any, due to all sorts of...stupid complications and hangups that he hasn't been too willing to work through, if he's going to be totally honest. But after a while here he is, and after a while longer of debating whether he's going to try to ping him anon or not, he decides to just kind of say "fuck it" and leave things as they are.]
Hey.
You've probably got no damn idea who I am so if you don't bother reading this or anything that's fine and I'm not really expecting you to respond to some guy just kind of sending you messages from right out of nowhere. But I'm the guy you were talking to a while back about the afterlife stuff, what happens to souls when they're judged and everything, and I said that maybe I'd get in contact with you later.
I don't really want anything outside of maybe seeing if you've gotten yourself sorted out any, not that I expect any miracles to have happened because people just don't work like that apparently. Making sure that it's not any worse, maybe.
Oh, hello! Thank you very much for everything you said to me. I've been thinking a lot about everything that happened. It hasn't been easy, but I feel a lot better now. I think I really needed to hear that what happened was awful and I wasn't mistaken about that.
It's very nice to meet you though! I appreciate what you had to say to me. Thank you so much.
Don't mention it. Sometimes things are just like that I guess - it's more about just having someone else hear it and say that whatever happened was wrong. A lot of people want that and it's not really my job to question why, even if I don't really do that sort of thing myself.
Good to meet you too. You ever get that stuff you were asking for? I saw you on the network not too long ago.
Oh yes, I did! A very nice man named Cecil sent the items over!
I'm very glad I was able to talk about all of that. It's not something I feel I can talk to most people about because it's... well, it's awkward to talk about. The world I come from seems to be pretty awful in comparison to the ones my friends are from.
So just being able to put that into words helped a bit, I think. Thank you very much for allowing me to talk about that and being neutral about it all.
Cecil Harvey, I'm assuming. He's a good guy, yeah, someone you want to keep in contact with.
...And yeah, trust me, I know. There's some stuff about arbiters and how we work that's kind of a mess by human standards so I get what you mean about not being able to really talk about stuff. Impartiality is kind of my thing, though, it's sort of in the job requirements, so if you want to talk about stuff it's not like I'm doing anything most of the time. This place is pretty slow compared to the tower.
You don't have to keep thanking me, though, I wouldn't have said anything if I wasn't willing to talk about stuff like that and it's pretty obvious when I'm annoyed so it's not like you were bothering me any.
[...jesus, ginti, did the afterlife just never teach you how to punctuate]
I'm very glad to hear that you weren't annoyed by it. I was a bit concerned about that. Not because you sounded upset, but just because that was an awful lot to ask of you.
Well I don't think most people have to answer the sort of questions I asked. I get that it's your job, but as you said, you aren't supposed to handle cases like this. It's complicated and really messed up. So thank you for handling what I threw at you.
I'm not, but that doesn't mean it doesn't happen sometimes anyway. One of the guys that's got about the same amount of experiences as me has handled some pretty messed up things and we still aren't sure why. He got a pair of marked guys once, it was screwed up as hell.
Yeah. Marked people...those are the ones I've told you about, the ones who kill for unjust reasons. Self-defense doesn't count toward that, war doesn't count toward that. If it's survival then you're clean, if it's an accident you're clean, if there was no malicious intent behind what you did then you're clean. But people who knowingly murder other people are marked.
The guy I know...we'd talk sometimes after the cases that were screwed up, the sort of thing that warrants some time off. Not really indepth because we didn't get along. Just talking about the mess we'd gotten done handling, as you do.
The one I'm thinking of involved a pair of guys, a cop and some teenage kid. The cop had been fucked over by someone, I think his wife died, and so he started killing people that he thought were "guilty" without bothering to go through the justice system because he decided that he had more right than anyone else to go full judge, jury and executioner on people. He also liked to watch the people he wanted to kill do bad things to other people, so he'd have a reason to go through with it. He'd let them do whatever they were going to do and then he'd get all high on justice and kill them later.
So this came around to its logical conclusion when the kid's sister got brutalized by somebody while the cop just watched. The kid killed the guy who did it, then he and the cop managed to do a great job killing each other or something.
That's terrible. I'm so sorry this was something your coworker had to handle. I can only imagine how difficult that must have been.
But I have a question for you. What's the "justice system"?
[NATURALLY HE'S FROM A VILLAGE WITHOUT THAT AND NO ONE BOTHERED TO EXPLAIN STUFF LIKE THIS TO HIM]
I know there are a lot of awful people out there, but sometimes it's hard to remember it. I've been very lucky to be surrounded by good people. And even the chief wasn't a terrible person - he was wrong to do everything he did, but he really seemed to think it was for the best. Though maybe that guy thought killing people who had committed crimes was for the best too.
No it's definitely better to not remember things like that all the time, some people go through life thinking that everyone around them is evil and that always leads to really bad life choices later down the line. So it's probably better to think that everyone's mostly good as opposed to thinking everyone's terrible. I still don't really think people can be either, but most humans don't really get that.
As for the justice system, it depends on where you live. It's pretty much a bunch of people who make sure that laws are followed. Like the police here, there are some of those cop girls in blue skirts wandering around and all of them are called Jessie or Janice or something? ...Jenny. I think they're all Jenny. But those people are part of the justice system here. If you do something illegal like stealing or attacking cities or whatever and they catch you, they can arrest you and put you in jail. Stuff like that.
Some places don't have one at all. In the place that guy came from, he was a cop, which means he was in charge of arresting people suspected of breaking the law. After he arrested them, he was supposed to bring them to court, where the person who supposedly broke the law can either confess to doing it, or they can try to say that they didn't, but if they do that they have to prove that they didn't. There are people who are appointed to help argue that - that's their job, it's what they do with their lives, they review cases where it looks like someone broke the law, and they take the case in front of an impartial person whose job it is to hear stuff like this and make decisions about it, and they try to prove whether the person is innocent or guilty.
It's not the cop's job to decide whether someone is innocent or guilty and it's definitely not his job to kill them after witnessing stuff like that, he's supposed to take them to court and give them a fair trial because where he's from it's important to treat everyone equally like that - just because you might have done something bad it doesn't mean you're not a person anymore, you still have rights and killing you on the spot takes those rights away.
Oh, I see. We didn't have anything like that in our village. Everything was pretty peaceful. I remember there was one time when someone stole food from another house, but the chief resolved that. We didn't really have any reason for a system like that, but there were only fifty of us. In a larger village or in a city something like that would be vital, I'd imagine.
Thank you for explaining it to me. I still don't really understand how that works, but I suppose that's normal considering where I'm from.
I don't understand why that man would want to murder people. Even if he could justify it in his own mind, he had to actually kill them himself, correct? It wasn't like leaving them to die. I think there's a pretty big difference there, but that's not really something I understand either.
No, it isn't. But it's... less personal, I suppose? I think it would be easier to excuse something like that in your head. In the chief's experience, he never knew if any of those people actually died or not. I'm sure he assumed they did, but since none of us could go up to the surface to check...
Sorry, I'm not really sure what point I'm trying to get across here. This is just something I've been thinking a lot about. You've said that people who kill because they were fighting in a war aren't marked, right?
Oh. Well if that's how you're looking at it then yeah, it's less messed up to leave someone to die. Like you said, it's less personal and it's not like you have to watch them die either and it's usually the watching part that messes people up.
As for soldiers and stuff...I haven't really dealt with a lot of war stuff either yet because that's a different sort of messed up but I don't think the whole marked thing is the reason. It doesn't count as murder though.
Yes, that's what I meant. It's still really messed up, but I can see where the chief was able to distance himself from it. I don't like that at all, but at least I can sort of make sense of that.
...I'm asking about soldiers because my friends and I are fighting against the beastmen. They're the ones who control the surface world and kill any human who sets foot up there. We're fighting to reclaim the surface for humanity and while there aren't very many of us, we've managed to capture a battleship. (I believe that's what it's called?)
My friends have killed a lot of people. Beastmen are a lot like humans. They're intelligent and they can clearly think for themselves, so they're closer to humans than beasts. No one really seems bothered by the fact that so many people died. We captured the battleship a week before I arrived here and before that we hadn't seen very many people die.
Then our leader died and it messed everyone up. I understand why, but no one really seemed bothered by the fact that so many beastmen died too. I understand that they're our enemies and honestly, I wasn't bothered by their deaths back home either.
But I've had time to think about it and being here surrounded by Pokemon... it makes it kind of hard to process what happened.
Our leader controlled a gunmen and it's one that no one else has stepped forward to pilot. I've been practicing with it, so they sent me out in it and... I think I'm going to have to fight some beastmen on my own. I'm going to have to kill them in order to survive and while I don't know how much of a problem that would be for me back home, it's kind of messing me up here. I don't really want to go back. I know I have to because they need me, but...
I'm sorry, I got carried away. This isn't really something I can talk about with anyone but that doesn't mean I should keep dumping all of this stuff on you.
It's like I said, I don't mind if you want to talk about stuff I guess. Better me than most other people because at least I've got some experience with this sort of thing even if the actual situation is pretty much beyond me.
[There's something else that's bothering him, though, outside of the situation itself; he wants clarification on that before even trying to look at anything else.]
Okay, before I get into the rest of what you've said I kind of want to know first - how old are you?
[Because this one had looked really young over the video a while ago.]
Yeah, I think it's better not to bother most of them with this sort of thing. A lot of them seem very innocent.
I'm fourteen. I believe our leader was seventeen, maybe? A lot of our friends are in their late teenage years or early twenties, though some of them are older than that. Why?
[And that really is all that it is; he's not a soft touch normally anyway, and he's not going to say that kids shouldn't die because the fact of the matter is that they do, all the damn time. It's not something arbiters are ever crazy about dealing with, but at the same time as far as Ginti is concerned, humans live just so they can die eventually - kids just happen to die a lot sooner than others.
Is it fucked up? Probably. But that doesn't make it any less of a reality, now, does it.
So this is a literal kid. That's fine. The literal kid is also indirectly asking him if he'll go to hell if he dies in some war that exactly no one asked for, which is sort of less fine but you know what, he's seen worse.]
Look, you and your friends aren't going to be marked for whatever it is you guys are doing out there. Because war is just like that and because if it wasn't them it'd be you. You called it survival right? That's an important thing, it's something you should keep in mind because that's why it matters when your leader dies but it doesn't matter when the people that are trying to kill you die, and there's no arbiter in the entire damn tower that's going to call you on that and say you deserve the Void for it.
Whether anyone's life is worth more or less than anyone else's is something that we decide all the time, but it's not something that the living can be expected to choose for themselves and like I said to you before, intent matters. You just do what you think you have to and you do what you think is right, and we'll take care of you once everything's said and done because that's what we do. If the idea of killing people messes you up that's a good thing because there's a reason it's considered so bad by pretty much every standard that's out there but we get that sometimes people die because they're in circumstances that no one in their right minds asked for and sometimes they die because war breaks out and sometimes they die because it's them or someone else and that's just how things shook out.
We get all of your memories when you come to us, we can see everything about your life and all the decisions that came along for you to deal with and we know how you think. If this is survival for you and your friends we'll get that too.
Thank you very much. I really needed to hear that. You're very good at saying exactly what I need.
I don't know everything our leader did before I met him, but he was a very good person. I don't believe he's in any danger of being sent to the Void. I really do appreciate hearing that though - that if it's survival it's different. I don't like thinking that any one person's life matters than another's, but you're right about that too. I was upset about losing my mother, not about the other villagers that were sent up to the surface world before and after her.
I think I'll need time to work through all of this as well, but I feel better. I feel like things will be okay now, even if I'm not sure how everything will turn out back home.
Thank you very much and I'm sorry I keep doing this. You're a very easy person to talk to!
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Good morning, Rossiu-san. I hope you have been doing well! The weather is a lot warmer recently, so if you decided to travel on foot I hope that has helped make your traveling a little easier.
But anyway, um...I just wanted to make sure you were doing okay. I will be around all day today, so you don't have to call back right away if you're in the middle of traveling. Most any time would be fine.
[He pauses a moment.]
Oh- my Porygon also wanted me to tell you that he says hello, to both you and yours.
[And with that he ends the message.]
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Hello. Thanks for calling to check up on me. I've been doing alright. I made it to Violet City a few days ago. I think I'm going to stay here for a little while - it's much larger than anything I'm used to!
[Well, the biggest city he's used to. Nothing is topping Dai-Gurren in terms of size.]
Ah, I think Dimension wants to say hello as well!
HELLO FRIEND!
[It looks like Rossiu's Porygon is still in the 'Gear.]
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[With Zip in his Gear, Chihiro doesn't have to switch to text to allow the Porygon to respond. He just does so without having to ask.]
HELLO HELLO!
GREETINGS c:
Dimension. That's a good name for them, I think. And I am glad to hear you are doing well! Do you like Violet City so far?
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Thank you! I got the idea from some of the people in Cherrygrove; they were trying to explain the technology behind Porygon to me, but I didn't understand much of what they said.
[Giant fighting robots make way more sense, okay.]
Violet's been very nice! I'm afraid I'm going to get lost between the inn and the Pokémon Center, but it's a wonderful new experience.
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/WELL/
CURRENT OBJECTIVE: IN SEARCH OF TRAINERS WHO CAN MAKE PIE
I WILL PROVIDE FURTHER INFORMATION AS IT SURFACES
[Chihiro chuckles softly on the other end. Not at Rossiu, mind, but at the Porygon antics going on while they talk.]
That is understandable. They are...very interesting creatures. But I have found that the easiest way to learn about them is to talk to them directly. They're more than happy to tell you everything they know.
Oh, hopefully you won't! It's usually pretty straightforward...but if you are worried, maybe you can remember what landmarks are around so you will be able to find your way back easily.
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GET IT, IT'S A JOKE
BECAUSE THERE IS FRUIT IN SOME PIES
[He's not surprised about Dimension's interest, it's a very talkative Porygon and usually communicates with Rossiu through the 'Gear. He's a lot slower at reading the texts, so he'll check what they've been saying later.]
I've been talking to Dimension through the 'Gear, but I also obtained a Psychic-type who can help. It's been nice talking to them and learning more about them.
Thanks for the advice. I'm sure I'll learn my way around eventually, but Dimension and the others have been good about figuring out where I need to go.
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YES THAT WAS A /VERY/ CLEVER JOKE
DIMENSION! :>
That's good! They should help you out a lot, then.
[It's a good thing that arriving with a Pokemon comes standard with this place. It helped keep Chihiro from worrying about Rossiu too much, at least.]
I was actually going to tell you...I'm planning on breeding a new clutch of eggs sometime in the next few weeks. If you notice something you like when I do, I would be happy to let you have one of them. Most of them should have some very useful moves right from the start.
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I HAVE BEEN WORKING VERY HARD ON COMING UP WITH JOKES!
MY TRAINER DOES NOT SEEM TO HAVE A SENSE OF HUMOR SO I WOULD LIKE TO HELP HIM!
Oh, that would be nice! I can pay you for it, that won't be a problem! I'm trying to get at least one of every type of Pokémon, but I don't really want to get overwhelmed with the number of Pokémon I'm training...
[It's a difficult dilemma.]
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GO FIGHT WIN!!
Wow...one of every type? That is very impressive.
[He shakes his head a little, smiling.]
You really don't have to though, you know. I would be more than happy to just let you take one of them so your roster can grow. All I want is to be sure they are all going to good homes, after all.
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I want to be able to target any Pokémon's weakness, so I figure the best way to do that is to have one of every type available for battle.
[It seems to be the most efficient way, since he can't figure out how to cover all his type weaknesses. He's still learning.]
Ah, no, I couldn't just take it for free! I can certainly provide a good home, but I wouldn't want to take it without giving you some sort of payment.
[His expression softens after a moment though.]
...Everyone has been so kind here. You're not the first person who has offered to let me have an egg for free. That's not the extent of it, of course, that's what made me think of it. I'm... really glad I'm here.
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But if you do want to pay for it, that's fine too. I hope to breed quite a few eggs this time, so you should have a lot of different types to choose from.
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Dual types can be very useful, yes! Though, I think it very much depends on what you plan on using them for. Sometimes they can be tricky for battles, due to having an extra type to think about...but that also makes them stronger, too.
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Thank you for the advice, I'll be sure to be careful!
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[He can tell you what horrible combinations of Pokemon can breed, though, if you're interested...]
You're welcome. As long as you have planned for their weaknesses, I don't think you'd have much of a problem.
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Hey.
You've probably got no damn idea who I am so if you don't bother reading this or anything that's fine and I'm not really expecting you to respond to some guy just kind of sending you messages from right out of nowhere. But I'm the guy you were talking to a while back about the afterlife stuff, what happens to souls when they're judged and everything, and I said that maybe I'd get in contact with you later.
I don't really want anything outside of maybe seeing if you've gotten yourself sorted out any, not that I expect any miracles to have happened because people just don't work like that apparently. Making sure that it's not any worse, maybe.
Anyway, that's about it.
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Oh, hello! Thank you very much for everything you said to me. I've been thinking a lot about everything that happened. It hasn't been easy, but I feel a lot better now. I think I really needed to hear that what happened was awful and I wasn't mistaken about that.
It's very nice to meet you though! I appreciate what you had to say to me. Thank you so much.
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Good to meet you too. You ever get that stuff you were asking for? I saw you on the network not too long ago.
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I'm very glad I was able to talk about all of that. It's not something I feel I can talk to most people about because it's... well, it's awkward to talk about. The world I come from seems to be pretty awful in comparison to the ones my friends are from.
So just being able to put that into words helped a bit, I think. Thank you very much for allowing me to talk about that and being neutral about it all.
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...And yeah, trust me, I know. There's some stuff about arbiters and how we work that's kind of a mess by human standards so I get what you mean about not being able to really talk about stuff. Impartiality is kind of my thing, though, it's sort of in the job requirements, so if you want to talk about stuff it's not like I'm doing anything most of the time. This place is pretty slow compared to the tower.
You don't have to keep thanking me, though, I wouldn't have said anything if I wasn't willing to talk about stuff like that and it's pretty obvious when I'm annoyed so it's not like you were bothering me any.
[...jesus, ginti, did the afterlife just never teach you how to punctuate]
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...You think so?
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The guy I know...we'd talk sometimes after the cases that were screwed up, the sort of thing that warrants some time off. Not really indepth because we didn't get along. Just talking about the mess we'd gotten done handling, as you do.
The one I'm thinking of involved a pair of guys, a cop and some teenage kid. The cop had been fucked over by someone, I think his wife died, and so he started killing people that he thought were "guilty" without bothering to go through the justice system because he decided that he had more right than anyone else to go full judge, jury and executioner on people. He also liked to watch the people he wanted to kill do bad things to other people, so he'd have a reason to go through with it. He'd let them do whatever they were going to do and then he'd get all high on justice and kill them later.
So this came around to its logical conclusion when the kid's sister got brutalized by somebody while the cop just watched. The kid killed the guy who did it, then he and the cop managed to do a great job killing each other or something.
...It was messed up.
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But I have a question for you. What's the "justice system"?
[NATURALLY HE'S FROM A VILLAGE WITHOUT THAT AND NO ONE BOTHERED TO EXPLAIN STUFF LIKE THIS TO HIM]
I know there are a lot of awful people out there, but sometimes it's hard to remember it. I've been very lucky to be surrounded by good people. And even the chief wasn't a terrible person - he was wrong to do everything he did, but he really seemed to think it was for the best. Though maybe that guy thought killing people who had committed crimes was for the best too.
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As for the justice system, it depends on where you live. It's pretty much a bunch of people who make sure that laws are followed. Like the police here, there are some of those cop girls in blue skirts wandering around and all of them are called Jessie or Janice or something? ...Jenny. I think they're all Jenny. But those people are part of the justice system here. If you do something illegal like stealing or attacking cities or whatever and they catch you, they can arrest you and put you in jail. Stuff like that.
Some places don't have one at all. In the place that guy came from, he was a cop, which means he was in charge of arresting people suspected of breaking the law. After he arrested them, he was supposed to bring them to court, where the person who supposedly broke the law can either confess to doing it, or they can try to say that they didn't, but if they do that they have to prove that they didn't. There are people who are appointed to help argue that - that's their job, it's what they do with their lives, they review cases where it looks like someone broke the law, and they take the case in front of an impartial person whose job it is to hear stuff like this and make decisions about it, and they try to prove whether the person is innocent or guilty.
It's not the cop's job to decide whether someone is innocent or guilty and it's definitely not his job to kill them after witnessing stuff like that, he's supposed to take them to court and give them a fair trial because where he's from it's important to treat everyone equally like that - just because you might have done something bad it doesn't mean you're not a person anymore, you still have rights and killing you on the spot takes those rights away.
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Thank you for explaining it to me. I still don't really understand how that works, but I suppose that's normal considering where I'm from.
I don't understand why that man would want to murder people. Even if he could justify it in his own mind, he had to actually kill them himself, correct? It wasn't like leaving them to die. I think there's a pretty big difference there, but that's not really something I understand either.
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...Maybe it's just me, but I'm really not seeing how leaving someone to die is any better.
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Sorry, I'm not really sure what point I'm trying to get across here. This is just something I've been thinking a lot about. You've said that people who kill because they were fighting in a war aren't marked, right?
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As for soldiers and stuff...I haven't really dealt with a lot of war stuff either yet because that's a different sort of messed up but I don't think the whole marked thing is the reason. It doesn't count as murder though.
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...I'm asking about soldiers because my friends and I are fighting against the beastmen. They're the ones who control the surface world and kill any human who sets foot up there. We're fighting to reclaim the surface for humanity and while there aren't very many of us, we've managed to capture a battleship. (I believe that's what it's called?)
My friends have killed a lot of people. Beastmen are a lot like humans. They're intelligent and they can clearly think for themselves, so they're closer to humans than beasts. No one really seems bothered by the fact that so many people died. We captured the battleship a week before I arrived here and before that we hadn't seen very many people die.
Then our leader died and it messed everyone up. I understand why, but no one really seemed bothered by the fact that so many beastmen died too. I understand that they're our enemies and honestly, I wasn't bothered by their deaths back home either.
But I've had time to think about it and being here surrounded by Pokemon... it makes it kind of hard to process what happened.
Our leader controlled a gunmen and it's one that no one else has stepped forward to pilot. I've been practicing with it, so they sent me out in it and... I think I'm going to have to fight some beastmen on my own. I'm going to have to kill them in order to survive and while I don't know how much of a problem that would be for me back home, it's kind of messing me up here. I don't really want to go back. I know I have to because they need me, but...
I'm sorry, I got carried away. This isn't really something I can talk about with anyone but that doesn't mean I should keep dumping all of this stuff on you.
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[There's something else that's bothering him, though, outside of the situation itself; he wants clarification on that before even trying to look at anything else.]
Okay, before I get into the rest of what you've said I kind of want to know first - how old are you?
[Because this one had looked really young over the video a while ago.]
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I'm fourteen. I believe our leader was seventeen, maybe? A lot of our friends are in their late teenage years or early twenties, though some of them are older than that. Why?
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[And that really is all that it is; he's not a soft touch normally anyway, and he's not going to say that kids shouldn't die because the fact of the matter is that they do, all the damn time. It's not something arbiters are ever crazy about dealing with, but at the same time as far as Ginti is concerned, humans live just so they can die eventually - kids just happen to die a lot sooner than others.
Is it fucked up? Probably. But that doesn't make it any less of a reality, now, does it.
So this is a literal kid. That's fine. The literal kid is also indirectly asking him if he'll go to hell if he dies in some war that exactly no one asked for, which is sort of less fine but you know what, he's seen worse.]
Look, you and your friends aren't going to be marked for whatever it is you guys are doing out there. Because war is just like that and because if it wasn't them it'd be you. You called it survival right? That's an important thing, it's something you should keep in mind because that's why it matters when your leader dies but it doesn't matter when the people that are trying to kill you die, and there's no arbiter in the entire damn tower that's going to call you on that and say you deserve the Void for it.
Whether anyone's life is worth more or less than anyone else's is something that we decide all the time, but it's not something that the living can be expected to choose for themselves and like I said to you before, intent matters. You just do what you think you have to and you do what you think is right, and we'll take care of you once everything's said and done because that's what we do. If the idea of killing people messes you up that's a good thing because there's a reason it's considered so bad by pretty much every standard that's out there but we get that sometimes people die because they're in circumstances that no one in their right minds asked for and sometimes they die because war breaks out and sometimes they die because it's them or someone else and that's just how things shook out.
We get all of your memories when you come to us, we can see everything about your life and all the decisions that came along for you to deal with and we know how you think. If this is survival for you and your friends we'll get that too.
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Thank you very much. I really needed to hear that. You're very good at saying exactly what I need.
I don't know everything our leader did before I met him, but he was a very good person. I don't believe he's in any danger of being sent to the Void. I really do appreciate hearing that though - that if it's survival it's different. I don't like thinking that any one person's life matters than another's, but you're right about that too. I was upset about losing my mother, not about the other villagers that were sent up to the surface world before and after her.
I think I'll need time to work through all of this as well, but I feel better. I feel like things will be okay now, even if I'm not sure how everything will turn out back home.
Thank you very much and I'm sorry I keep doing this. You're a very easy person to talk to!