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Mukuro Ikusaba ([personal profile] corpsewarblade) wrote in [community profile] avalononline2021-08-27 01:18 pm

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.


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[personal profile] notquitetamed 2021-08-29 07:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Keep in mind that your assumption of a fatal mistake also assumes that the commander didn't order a suicide mission or plan this course from the start. Not impossible and happened multiple times in my world.
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[personal profile] notquitetamed 2021-09-05 02:18 am (UTC)(link)
Okay, so you're convinced otherwise. Just seems to be the clear potential since you can succeed and be betrayed anyhow. Sure happened to the most celebrated war hero in my home.

So what was the plan then? Go over it step by step for me./span>
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Private Text (cw: Mentions of betrayal and death by fire)

[personal profile] notquitetamed 2021-09-22 05:58 am (UTC)(link)
[Hawk is going to private the whole thing since the story of Rosvita could potentially out him.]

Long ago there was a war that had been going on for a hundred years between two kingdoms. The war itself was coming near its end with one at a severe disadvantage after losing a major city.

However, they won the war because of a woman named Rosvita. She was chosen by one of the gods to join the battle and led her comrades into a battle that turned the tide and won back the city and ended the war.

However, for her that wasn't the end. Her own king betrayed her, had her captured and handed her over to the enemy for trial. She was sentenced to die by being burnt at the stake. A rather unpleasant way to go from what I hear.

Despite that, her name and feats are celebrated. She's now known as Saint Rosvita and there are many images of her in the city. Even 500 years later we still honor her and celebrate a festival on the anniversary of the end of the war.


[Of course since he's anon he's not going to get into the full measure of the betrayal like what happened to her comrades or the instance where history repeated itself.]

The obvious mistake was that you raised suspicion somehow. Are you skilled at deception and disguise then? It's definitely not an easy thing to effectively be another person. Even more so when it's not an alias and you are pretending to be someone that group knows.

But I can't shake the betrayal potential. Might be my bias because betrayal is so ingrained in the history of my home, but the feeling is still there. It depends on the type of person your commander is, but faking one's death has been used as a means to disappear before. Can't think of a more effective alibi than that.

Either way, you still died on a mission and I doubt it was in vain. Either you protected your commander or you'll motivate that group to avenge your death. You're here and maybe we'll be able to find a way for you to live on in another world if you so desire it.