[ roy doesn't bother confirming, or denying, that he agrees or disagrees with what morrigan says. he also doesn't seem too concerned by morrigan's perception of him; if she finds him stupid, or naïve, that's fine by him. she certainly wouldn't be the first person to underestimate him, and she certainly wouldn't be the last.
he does listen, though. and after a long moment of mulling it over . . . ]
I don't believe any of us who actively worked on obtaining the ceasefire thought it would last longer than our stay in Akvos. Most of us seemed to be fairly realistic about our chances of long-term success.
[ roy and merlin, and shiro, talked at length about it. it didn't seem to be much of a surprise to those steeped in the investigation, but roy also focused his efforts on minimizing loss of life, rather than a long-term solution. in war, you need to triage as much as you need to work with the big picture. pretending otherwise is naïve, but he keeps that thought to himself. ]
But I still don't believe that people who make mistakes, or who are pushed to the point of desperation, are monsters. I don't believe the Queen or King were inherently wrong in what they did, and it's easy to sit here from our own positions and lecture people that we know nothing about concerning their right, or wrong. We know nothing about their culture, their history, or their people aside from what we were granted insight into, and there are always three sides to every story. I don't think it's our place to judge whether the people in Akvos were right, or wrong. I don't think it's ever our place to judge that, but those are the circumstances handed to us.
[ and, finally, he shrugs. ]
But if you're really interested in whether those people were good, or bad, we seem to have a collection of them in the lake, now. I'm sure they have a wealth of insight about the bigger picture, and maybe they can assuage our guilt far more than the rest of us can.
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he does listen, though. and after a long moment of mulling it over . . . ]
I don't believe any of us who actively worked on obtaining the ceasefire thought it would last longer than our stay in Akvos. Most of us seemed to be fairly realistic about our chances of long-term success.
[ roy and merlin, and shiro, talked at length about it. it didn't seem to be much of a surprise to those steeped in the investigation, but roy also focused his efforts on minimizing loss of life, rather than a long-term solution. in war, you need to triage as much as you need to work with the big picture. pretending otherwise is naïve, but he keeps that thought to himself. ]
But I still don't believe that people who make mistakes, or who are pushed to the point of desperation, are monsters. I don't believe the Queen or King were inherently wrong in what they did, and it's easy to sit here from our own positions and lecture people that we know nothing about concerning their right, or wrong. We know nothing about their culture, their history, or their people aside from what we were granted insight into, and there are always three sides to every story. I don't think it's our place to judge whether the people in Akvos were right, or wrong. I don't think it's ever our place to judge that, but those are the circumstances handed to us.
[ and, finally, he shrugs. ]
But if you're really interested in whether those people were good, or bad, we seem to have a collection of them in the lake, now. I'm sure they have a wealth of insight about the bigger picture, and maybe they can assuage our guilt far more than the rest of us can.