Alright. Now, let's... [Turn the board around? Show all the cards? They aren't sure Adora's played enough games to be familiar with that.]
...Let's try an experiment. Let's consider the weapons and defenses of everyone involved. [Wait, Adora's literal.] The weapons of the mind and the heart. The motivations.
You talk like you returning to the fae was... inevitable. That there was no other option. But how do you know that for sure?
You don't... know them like I do. I couldn't risk it. Catra doesn't know how things work in the north. If they took her instead, they could do horrible things...
[They sigh again, rubbing the back of their neck.]
But like I said. Let's think about strategy. What weapons each side has, physical and emotional. What if there's gear and resources we have that the other doesn't?
What if we could handle more than you expected of us?
[ She looks down at her hands. She’s miserable about it. ]
The king isn’t like anyone I’ve met in Sefiro. He doesn’t have any humanity in him. He’d do anything to get an upper hand, I had to do something. Wouldn’t you have done the same thing?
If you knew someone was going to try to hurt the queen, and you could stop it by taking her place, wouldn’t you?
But when we face a problem together, we're stronger. We have different ideas. Greater understandings. And that's true of any group or army or government. The more kinds of different people you have working together, the more you can prepare and plan for different outcomes.
It's one thing to take Fuu's place on the execution block. It's another for me to not even tell her and have to find out later that they never had a chance of executing her to begin with.
Kaori is a princess who has a whole family who didn’t spend their entire lives lying to her about who she was or why they cared about her. [ Sorry Leslie. ] She has friends and hobbies and a life. She didn’t spend her whole childhood being groomed to kill here own parents. It’s different! She has a life that’s worth something.
[They sit quietly, letting Adora express it all, as best a picture of non-judgment as they can keep on. They'll give her an extra few seconds to breathe after she's said it all.]
...do you really think some lives are worth more or less than others?
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It's almost more scary how confidently you can say that compared to everything else...
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If you wanted me to stay, it would’ve been a harder decision in everyone. So I made it. No one else had to.
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...Let's try an experiment. Let's consider the weapons and defenses of everyone involved. [Wait, Adora's literal.] The weapons of the mind and the heart. The motivations.
You talk like you returning to the fae was... inevitable. That there was no other option. But how do you know that for sure?
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I'm just... concerned, Adora. What scared you more? Our family getting hurt or... talking to us?
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[They sigh again, rubbing the back of their neck.]
But like I said. Let's think about strategy. What weapons each side has, physical and emotional. What if there's gear and resources we have that the other doesn't?
What if we could handle more than you expected of us?
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[They don't mean to sound judgy but is there truly any way to make that statement not sound that way.]
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The king isn’t like anyone I’ve met in Sefiro. He doesn’t have any humanity in him. He’d do anything to get an upper hand, I had to do something. Wouldn’t you have done the same thing?
If you knew someone was going to try to hurt the queen, and you could stop it by taking her place, wouldn’t you?
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But chief among them is that doubting Fuu at any point is more likely to get me killed before anyone else.
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But when we face a problem together, we're stronger. We have different ideas. Greater understandings. And that's true of any group or army or government. The more kinds of different people you have working together, the more you can prepare and plan for different outcomes.
It's one thing to take Fuu's place on the execution block. It's another for me to not even tell her and have to find out later that they never had a chance of executing her to begin with.
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But... it's hard to imagine the situation would be the same if we all hadn't had to willingly enter the fae lands unprepared.
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...do you really think some lives are worth more or less than others?
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