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[gundhamster]

[The video starts with Gundham just sort of sitting on a bale of hay at the stables. His newfound magical abilities has made upkeep far easier as he no longer really needed to go into town for supplies, and he now had a bit too much time with his own thoughts. After a moment of hesitation, he finally decides to speak.]

I have a hypothetical that I would like opinions on from the rest of you.


In a far off world, there is a war between the forces of light and darkness. Among the forces of darkness there is an order of Death Knights that act as generals for the King of Darkness. Little is known about them or how they operate, mainly because there are no survivors to report on any encounters. The only concrete facts known about them is that wherever they go all that is left in their wake is death and ash. None are spared, warriors, civilians, children, none are spared.

The forces of Light decide that the best way to end the war is to assassinate the king, cutting off the power the knights receive from the king. However, in doing so, it's revealed that the knights were operating under duress, though the specifics are not widely known. The knights had no choice in the matter and the weight of their actions nearly crush them when freed from the king's influence.

My question to you is what would you do with these knights? Do they deserve to be given to the families of those they slew and made an example of? Would you console them? Or simply do nothing and make them figure it out for themselves?

Do they deserve redemption, or are they too far gone?

Comments

Text; anon (Please excuse me being super late I convinced myself I already replied)

[corpsewarblade]

[Probably the last person he wants a PM from, but... Mukuro'd been thinking about this post for a while. It helped that she knew exactly what the context was he was talking about.]

Did you find the answers you were looking for, in the end?

🔪

text (No worries!)

[gundhamster]

[Gundham just stares at that knife emoji for a long time. If she thought she was hiding her presence, Gundham saw through it. Though considering her keeping Junko's facade, perhaps it was a way of speaking as her without others knowing.]

Hard to find something when you don't know what you're looking for in the first place. Though I admit that I'm surprised you would entertain such a hypothetical even for that. Have you given up the delusion that your 'king' still lives?

[corpsewarblade]

[It's exactly as he suspected- posing as 'blade-anon' meant she could hide who she really was and speak to others as herself without dropping her act.]

Then the answers haven't been helpful...?

I guess I just wanted to understand.

[That question made her flinch, and she followed up with a simple: ]

never

[gundhamster]

And why would you wish to understand something you claim to be a lie?

[Gundham could almost feel that flinch and decided to press on it, in an attempt to force her to confront such reasoning.]

[corpsewarblade]

Just because the 'King' isn't here it doesn't mean it's over. It can't be over.

The Gnome at the Archive asked if I regretted my role.

[gundhamster]

Then why entertain the idea of the generals living with the aftermath of the king, bereft of the king's control?

Do you?

[corpsewarblade]

A soldier needs to consider numerous tactical outcomes for a given conflict situation to develop an effective strategy. If approach A fails then a soldier needs to be prepared to fall back on B, C, D etc to counter the opponent's movements and carry out their mission most effectively.

[Vague. Detached. Completely avoiding the key part of the King being dead.]

I don't know.

I take it from this you do?