> > I guess what makes Chiaki particularly scary in this regard is that she's acutely aware of that price. Which is why she wouldn't want to be in charge.
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> With great power comes great responsibility.
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Yes, that again.
> > Sooner than you think, perhaps (there's something that's been on hold a while).
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> Proceed.
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It should be posted this weekend.
> > But Lara doesn't want to be his enemy, though. He's trying to make her into one, it seems. She just wants to know what's going on, and perhaps offer help or a better solution.
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> He's just a guy doing his job. It's how the cops don't bother to explain their reasons to civilians either - especially potential criminals.
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There's a difference here. If you walk up to a cop on the street at a crime scene and offer to help, it really
is none of your business because it doesn't even affect you.
On the other hand, decisions the Chronicler makes
are affecting Lara directly. Some of them, she sees, are at worst mistakes, at best misinformed. And being a hero type, she's not likely to cross her arms and wait for the the Chronicler's mistakes to crash in on his head before she says something.
She is also concerned because her experience with him leads her to believe that he sees a hierarchy that isn't there. That he believes that he's the king of his realm, is infallible, his word is law, etc, and nobody dare question him on penalty of death or worse. That's not the kind of person that should be running the universe, she believes, because it's too dangerous to allow megalomania into the equation. And yes, even though Lisa tried to help her out, in a way it makes it even more concerning that even Lisa is afraid to challenge the Chronicler's perceived superiority - like perhaps Lisa knows he'll react by punishing her too.
Alternately, Lara isn't someone who's too stubborn. If the Chronicler would have said something like here's what I'm trying to accomplish, I can't tell you how just yet, but I have to ask you not to interfere...that, she would have accepted. It's the part where he behaved like some lower creature dared to get mouthy, and deserved to be punished for it, that's where she started to think he might be a problem. At that point she starts to worry - a control freak always seeks more control, and eventually he'd start to require his subjects to swear absolute fealty to him, and he'd violently punish those who don't, or speak out of turn, or those he blames for his failures. That's when he'd have to be destroyed.
