cool motive, still murder

[niffin]

Who: Alice Quinn (niffin), Alan Bradley (alan_1), and you
When: 17th - 22nd-ish.
Where: The Hold, where you hold stuff. 
What: Post-trial. Alice is hanging out in the hold, because apparently convincing minors to arm disastrous deadly traps is frowned upon outside of Jumanji. 
Warnings: Probable discussion of character death and violence

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Link's brow furrows deeper the longer she goes on. He... He doesn't -- He doesn't know how he feels about what she's saying. He's always thought that... well. No, he hasn't actively thought about it before. Before the Ingress called him, he... He never had to deal with anything like this. Everything had been... It had been dangerous, and it hadn't been easy, and even simple isn't the right word for it, because if things had been simple, maybe he wouldn't have messed things up so much.

But... This kind of thing, he... He had always felt that the grown-ups knew how it worked. Knew how to find the right answers, if they tried, even though they didn't always try. But, this is... This is making it sound like... maybe, they don't know, either. There's a funny weight on his chest, and a funny lump in his throat.

"I don't understand," he says, his voice suddenly thick. He doesn't mean to, but he almost sounds like he's pleading. "The line can't be just for you, not when it affects everyone." That means, somewhere, there's a right answer. Doesn't it? Isn't there?

[niffin]

"That's the thing, though." Her voice gentles. Time to refocus. All morality is relative and artificial, kid, guess it just sucks to be alive isn't exactly what she wants him to take away and they're steering quickly down that path. "The decisions you make have to consider consequences, and that's part of why we create ones. So that people have something to refer back to: Laws, guidelines. Ways to act."

"There are other ways to get there. Common ways of thinking, cultural codes of morality. They get us closer to agreement, but they don't take us all the way. The thing is, here on this ship, we don't even have that."

"So everyone's still working to try and figure out how to handle that. But just because someone agrees, it doesn't make what they agreed on right. It's hard. But you always have to evaluate. Why you think something's right, why you think it's wrong. There are bad laws, and there are ways of thinking that wound."

"Thinking about all that? It's the hardest part of growing up. Some people never manage it."