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avalononline2021-08-27 01:18 pm
corpsewarblade) wrote in avalononline2021-08-27 01:18 pm
Entry tags:
- danganronpa: mukuro ikusaba,
- dc comics: stephanie brown,
- fate/go: izo,
- fate/go: kadoc zemlupus,
- fate/go: oda kipposhi,
- fe3h: byleth eisner,
- fe3h: claude von riegan,
- final fantasy xiv: emet-selch,
- genshin impact: childe,
- gintama: toshirou hijikata,
- hellsing: walter c. dornez,
- little fires everywhere: izzy richardson,
- star wars: mitth'raw'nuruodo,
- suisei no gargantia: ledo,
- the elder scrolls: finn onaru,
- the secret world: lee jongdae
Ninth: A Tactical Decision (Text; anon)
(TW: Murder/Sororicide, Betrayal, DR Spoilers)
[The last few months had given Mukuro a lot to think about- especially with regard to her own death back home. One part still didn't make any sense to her:
What had she done wrong? Why had Junko killed her?
...It was with those thoughts swimming around in her head that she sent another late night message to the network.]
27 AUG XX, 0324
Reviewing the strategy from a recent battle at home. I want to understand the rational for the decisions taken.
A soldier is engaged in a stealth/undercover mission. However, they have made a mistake that risks the operation's success, and have not realised their error.
The mission commander is in a position to eliminate the operative to preserve their mission, without exposing themselves in the process.
Is that course of action reasonable? To put it another way- under what circumstances would you consider sacrificing one of your own men to ensure a mission's success or to prevent it's failure?
Don't feel you have to answer.
🔪
[The last few months had given Mukuro a lot to think about- especially with regard to her own death back home. One part still didn't make any sense to her:
What had she done wrong? Why had Junko killed her?
...It was with those thoughts swimming around in her head that she sent another late night message to the network.]
27 AUG XX, 0324
Reviewing the strategy from a recent battle at home. I want to understand the rational for the decisions taken.
A soldier is engaged in a stealth/undercover mission. However, they have made a mistake that risks the operation's success, and have not realised their error.
The mission commander is in a position to eliminate the operative to preserve their mission, without exposing themselves in the process.
Is that course of action reasonable? To put it another way- under what circumstances would you consider sacrificing one of your own men to ensure a mission's success or to prevent it's failure?
Don't feel you have to answer.
🔪
Text | UN: mayorinfan35
If my subordinate fucked up I'd get his ass out of the mess, even if the mission went to hell over it (unless more lives hinged on its success or such). Better for both of us to come out with some scratches than me losing one of my men. A shithead commander, though, would sacrifice the soldier, no question. That's the difference between looking at your men as comrades or as pawns.
[Okay, he totally may have turned his back on subordinates in dire straits before, but that was in comedic arcs!!]
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I wasn't a pawn. She needed me.
[After that defensive snap, though, she took the time to focus on the rest of the message. She couldn't help but think back to the mirror-defence mission as she replied...Mukuro fell into the role of bodyguard almost instinctively.]
If you went in and got yourself hurt, then you could both get killed. Your men wouldn't be doing their job if they didn't keep you safe.
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so this exchange totally isn't a case of the pot calling the kettle black). But being the vice-commander, used to calling the shots, he did place himself in the commanding officer's position in his response, so he can't fault her for treating him as such.]Pawns are needed, too. The difference is that they can be discarded once they outlive their usefulness. Comrades you want to keep. The bottom line is that a commander who doesn't hesitate to sacrifice a subordinate (again, assuming no lives hinge on the mission, etc.) doesn't give a shit about them as a person.
[His phrasing is harsher than usual because he's high-strung over everything he learned, but also because he's aggravated at Mukuro apparently still defending Junko's decisions. How hard is it to see that she basically killed her for no reason?! Sure, maybe she wanted her to feel ultimate despair or whatever, but Hijikata has never been able to understand the super sadists and -masochists around him, so he can't really wrap his head around that part.]
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Outlived their usefulness.
[Was that it? Had...Junko discarded her? Was she no longer useful to her anymore, and that was why...]
no
And that's not
If your comrade kept disappointing you wouldn't you get rid of them to stop them from making anymore mistakes?
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[He has beaten many subordinates into shape in his time, literally. His men don't fear him for no reason. But there's also the Shinsengumi's third squad, the "silent squad", tasked with executing those who break the Shinsengumi code. Some men, unfortunately, prove themselves unsuitable, and desertation is repaid with their lives. (What heartless man may have written such a draconic code... yeah, it was Hijikata.)]
...
[That doesn't apply here, though. He knows that Mukuro was loyal to Junko - beyond loyal.]
Having to discard a soldier who did their best just means that the commander picked the wrong person for the mission. If someone goes above and beyond for me but simply isn't cut out for it, then isn't the fault all mine? You wouldn't send a fashion model into the battlefield and then blame her for not functioning like a supersoldier, would you?
[A very blatant role reversal, but it should show Mukuro how unreasonable Junko's expectations of her were.]
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No. I wouldn't blame her.
But if you place that expectation it's on her to do what's required for the mission.
Maybe the error was
Trusting someone unreliable to carry such a key role in the operation. The blame still should fall with her for not meeting those expectations.
[Without Junko's forced confidence...the girl behind it had very little self-worth.]
You'd take the blame yourself?
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[Damn, how can he get through to her..? Will she even acknowledge any points he (indirectly) makes about Junko and how demented her entire plan was?]
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...She trusted him, too, though.]
I trust that. That you'd save your allies each time. That you'd take the fall for them and back them up.
[Not...actually answering the question, but. She trusted him to have her back, if it came down to it.]
She wasn't a shitty commander.
No one else understood her like I did. And I let her down.
That wasn't
I didn't want to disappoint her again.
...Even here I keep messing up my undercover op, though.
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Even if you blow your cover, didn't you say you made good allies here? Seems like they'll support you no matter what.
...
How was your commander not shitty? How did only you understand her? And how do you think you disappointed her? You can answer privately if you want to.
[On the off chance that she does have enemies here he wants to ensure her personal matters are at least somewhat out of sight.]
Text -> Private text
I have. A couple of them know bits of the truth. A couple I can't let find out, no matter what.
[No names mentioned, Hijikata.
But she will answer his question- in a way that she hoped would answer at least the first two questions. Not that she realised it was a truth he already knew.]
My sister. My twin sister.
Private Text
That explains why you're so adamant to defend her. But you can love your sister, and she can be a bad commander. Both can be true.
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She's not 'a commander', really, but she was running the 'operation'. The 'plan'. I just see a lot of things that way. Makes it easier for me to make sense of everything.
But I guess I'm just a 'disappointing battle junkie' in the end. She was always the smarter one of us two. I was her right hand. Her bodyguard.
[Despite her mental insistence that he couldn't know the truth, she still found it hard to not open up. After all, the fact that she trusted him was still very much the truth.]
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[Thanks to Gundham he knows damn well what Junko wanted Mukuro to do, but that's not the point here. The point is that Junko blamed Mukuro for not being a perfect copy of her, essentially.]