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[shadowkin]

Speaking of which, think he’s given up?

[Clearly this means Phil is a resident disaster expertise consultant on vengeance schemes.]

[mirristry]

... I don't know. He... may need to face some more consequences before it truly sinks in.

[Ask him how he knows--]

[shadowkin]

Hmmmm. The Central thing's kinda vague... what kinda consequences you thinking?

[Mostly people are so iffy on executions or hexes or even shrimp?? Is this an out of sight, out of mind thing...

The thing is, if they're just here to do political logistics Cid really isn't that interested or useful, hence his very meh assessment.]

[mirristry]

I think that should be something for the people there to decide, not us. We're more bystanders to this entire situation than anything else.

[PLEASE, NO MORE SHRIMP THOUGH...]

[shadowkin]

He was specifically trying to kill us though?? Did I miss something??

[Like, Cid didn’t take it personally because it was like watching a wet paper bag yell at clouds but it definitely attempted to be personal!!

Also, the shrimp was just because he was lame.]

[mirristry]

I mean in the sense that we aren't of this world-- we aren't going to have to deal with the fallout of all of this the same way the residents of this world will. That's why I don't feel it's really our place to be making this sort of decision...

[Politics are messy! They are even messier when multiple worlds are involved.]

[fellheart]

[ okay, now he's cutting in. ]

If I may. He's already faced several sets of consequences.

[ getting everyone he might have remotely called a friend killed. failing in whatever it was he was trying to do in the east. losing his job. eating shit tonight. robin's expression is at odds with his tone, one a practiced, kind smile, if wan and distant, the other brisk and no-nonsense. ]

He's learned nothing from them thus far, merely cocooning himself further in denial and doubling down on his belief that it must be everyone's fault but his own. Perhaps it might yet be a distant possibility, but why don't we not get our hopes up for him ever learning better.

[ and then, because he's been noting the trend of phil's general responses this entire time, he'll go out on slightly more of a limb: ]

Seeing your own reflection in the face of every malefactor will not avail you any. By all means, advocate for a bloodless end if you do so for its own sake, but I imagine you will be sorely disappointed should you try to find your own redemption in that of a man such as this.

Some blackguards will simply not repent no matter how much gentle cajoling you do, how many chances you give them. A potentially kind but misguided man acting blindly out of anger and despair is one thing; a self-important fool who thinks the entire world owes him something is another.

[ phil's only going to burn himself and make himself more miserable that way. ]