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Subj: Re: Vinnie and Liu Xi
Posted: Sun Jan 24, 2016 at 01:04:10 pm EST (Viewed 441 times)
Reply Subj: Re: Vinnie and Liu Xi
Posted: Sun Jan 24, 2016 at 12:22:43 pm EST (Viewed 1 times)



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    But bluntly, if your job is to stop evil from overwhelming millions or just damning one innocent soul, where can one draw a line and say "I'm not paying that"? It's the mathematics of destruction, to save a billion by sacrificing a million - or himself. That's Vinnie's problem.


There is a bit of grey area to this because Faite has access to tools that Vinnie doesn't. For instance she has tools that can accomplish what Vinnie did for Liu Xi without harming anyone. However...

Faite *also* would insist that two people cannot inhabit one body long term, because it will cause harm to both spirits. She likely would have forced the two of them to choose who will stay and who will go, or maybe merged the two of them into one spirit. Either option is not idea for either one of them.

Where she believes Vinnie was stupid, though, is trying to sugarcoat it and pretend this was a positive solution for everyone. He should have been honest and told them this is the way it has to be.

As for a general price for saving the Parodyverse, Faite sees that as a stupid question because she's used to dynamic thinking, and that forces thought in a linear scale. How many people have to die to save the PV? Her answer would always be zero. No one *has* to die. They do so because of bad choices that were made, or action that wasn't taken, and it could have been avoided.



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    That's not a criticism of her. It's consistent with her sad history and upbringing, and it is a natural corollary of her experiences and what's been done to her. But Vinnie must be concerned that Liu Xi's compassionate nature is always leaving her facilitating other people, so much that she's never stopped to work out what she wants. In fact Vinnie might even be getting a bit fed up with people taking Liu Xi for granted like that.


She probably does a lot of that because she feels like she owes something after having killed someone with fire. Eventually someone will have to come along and convince her that she paid her debt a long time ago. Sounds like something Chiaki would do eventually, but to *really* convince her it would have to come from someone she works with regularly.



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    At the least, he probably feels he owes it to her to accompany her on a Liu Xi adventure rather than drag her along on another Vinnie case.


Oddly enough, she's happier when she's not in trouble, and can help other people with their problems.



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      Chiaki's only advice would be not to rely too much on the gift, because the future is fluid. Chiaki doesn't really understand "visions" of things to come, because she sees multiple possibilities instead.



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    Vespiir has actively tried to shut down her powers until very recently.


Chiaki would tell her that's kind of a useless idea. The power is always there, and ignoring it only brings sadness.



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    Strangely, I almost used that selfsame example about her last time I wrote.


It's a pretty common example, because she jumps off buildings a lot.





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