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Forum Name: Symphony of the Sword/The Order of the Rose
Topic ID: 486
Message ID: 46
#46, RE: (OOTR15) M5 Taken by Storm
Posted by drakensis on May-31-15 at 03:30 AM
In response to message #24
>>It may be silly of me, but I almost hope Leyna Tarrant ends up giving
>>up her hate instead of fighting to the end. Obviously Anakin has
>>contempt for her now, but I'm not sure if it's because she didn't care
>>if she lived or because her hate is all out of proportion to what
>>happened to her.
>
>The reasons for Anakin's reaction are touched on briefly in that same
>scene. Like her, he has something that he hates with a passion that
>defies any sense of proportion, but in Anakin's case, it's kidnappers
>and slavers - what we might call "human traffickers" in modern
>real-world parlance. He and Saionji knew when they arrived what the
>real objective of the Black Rose mission was (how, we'll get into
>later), and he assumes that Leyna did too - which makes her complicit,
>which, in his eyes, makes her lower than snakeshit, QE-effin-D.
>
>So he saves her life, because that's what you do, and then he
>completely shuts her off, because that's what he has to do to live
>with having saved someone who would be part of such a scheme. For all
>that various efforts have been made to impress a nuanced complexity
>upon him, Anakin Skywalker is really a fairly simple soul.

"So, you became a student in an organisation where that title usually translates to 'expendable mook' and the first time that organisation drew opposition you were swept aside like an expendable mook - by someone who was kind enough to refrain from killing you. And you decide that this merits abducting two infant children? Tell me, does your fine education include the word 'disproportionate'? Oh and just for reference: your part in this really isn't important enough to mention as more than a footnote when I report to the guy who spared you last time. I'm really unsure what you expected to get out of this... beyond discarded as expendable, that is."