( Mika takes note of the impromptu history lesson, and considers with vague amazement the concept of simply removing a god. Is that truly a god, then, if they can be bested by man?
At the very least, he cannot fathom how one could close the curtains on the God he knows, unknowable; unreachable; inscrutable - sequestered away so far from the hell that comprises his earth, that He cannot be struck, nor felled.
It would not change the world's end, though, Mika decides. It would not change, for the same reason it had not changed the nature of man in Robin's world. )
... The issue lies within humans' hearts.
( Following his series of questions, Mika finally takes a stance. An expected one, but a stance all the same. )
It's not in their nature to change; it's not in their nature to do good. They think about themselves, and their wants, and they think they're justified and righteous, and they will do anything it takes to achieve it. Anyone hurt, anyone lost on the way becomes just "a necessary sacrifice."
( A beat, as he glances across the crowd - toward no one in particular. Humans in a crowd like this... does not provoke within him hope, for precisely these reasons. )
... Some can overcome their nature, even if only somewhat. ( Some can be different - some are protagonists, after all. ) But... that's not enough to change the whole. Nothing is enough.
( And so often they are taken advantage of; so often they drown, as Robin described. )
... I don't know ( or care, really - sorry, Solomon, ) if this was the right choice, but vampires where I'm from were organized into coalitions to remove these categories of surviving humans— not that their motives were good. Cults, churches, armies; self-righteous and violent instigators. Through their deaths, the decline of humanity slowed.
( Mika was just a foot soldier in these operations. He does not absolve himself of the loss of human life, though. He does not wash himself clean of the blood on his hands. )
... Not that the remaining humans didn't come to turn on each other again, eventually. Even with these external fire starters removed, humans seek out harm naturally. Again, and again, and again.
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At the very least, he cannot fathom how one could close the curtains on the God he knows, unknowable; unreachable; inscrutable - sequestered away so far from the hell that comprises his earth, that He cannot be struck, nor felled.
It would not change the world's end, though, Mika decides. It would not change, for the same reason it had not changed the nature of man in Robin's world. )
... The issue lies within humans' hearts.
( Following his series of questions, Mika finally takes a stance. An expected one, but a stance all the same. )
It's not in their nature to change; it's not in their nature to do good. They think about themselves, and their wants, and they think they're justified and righteous, and they will do anything it takes to achieve it. Anyone hurt, anyone lost on the way becomes just "a necessary sacrifice."
( A beat, as he glances across the crowd - toward no one in particular. Humans in a crowd like this... does not provoke within him hope, for precisely these reasons. )
... Some can overcome their nature, even if only somewhat. ( Some can be different - some are protagonists, after all. ) But... that's not enough to change the whole. Nothing is enough.
( And so often they are taken advantage of; so often they drown, as Robin described. )
... I don't know ( or care, really - sorry, Solomon, ) if this was the right choice, but vampires where I'm from were organized into coalitions to remove these categories of surviving humans— not that their motives were good. Cults, churches, armies; self-righteous and violent instigators. Through their deaths, the decline of humanity slowed.
( Mika was just a foot soldier in these operations. He does not absolve himself of the loss of human life, though. He does not wash himself clean of the blood on his hands. )
... Not that the remaining humans didn't come to turn on each other again, eventually. Even with these external fire starters removed, humans seek out harm naturally. Again, and again, and again.