All's well that ends well

[thecastle]

[ So you've wished the dead back to life, but there's still 2 wishes you have to make. Ultimately what happens from here is entirely in your hands, but for the first time in eight weeks everyone is alive and whole again (even that pesky merman). There is that corruption you should deal with, but surely you know what to do about that.

Once you've settled and wound down a bit, maybe you should relax a bit before going your separate ways. You've earned it.

Comments

[deontological]

I find that very easy to believe. Your sense of honor, and Nishitani-san's - they remind me very much of the men with whom I am acquainted.

Which is not a bad thing at all.

[maddogs]

[ majima blushes a little at that ]

You're pretty honorable, too, Sen-hime-chan.

[deontological]

Thank you, Majima-san.

[It's nice to hear, after uh, everything.]

[maddogs]

[ i mean, he knows. that's why he started with an apology. he's aware here. ]

I know ya were just tryin' ta do what ya thought was best. We all try to do that. An' some of us [ don't worry what he really means is himself ] make some bad mistakes tryin' ta do that.

[ like trusting the sage i cant believe him ]

[deontological]

I think, in the end...

[Her voice trails off as she considers how to phrase it.]

We all had the same intentions - what differed was the methods we were willing to use in order to see them through. That, at least, give us all some common ground... more than we had just by being here.

I don't dislike people who follow through with their convictions, whether I disagree with their methods or not.

[maddogs]

[ he nods ]

I think I realized that, the more we got messages from ya guys. I could tell, what your angle was. It was smart, I jus' wish...I wish ya'd made it past the second week.

Don't matter now, I guess. We all get ta go home.

[deontological]

...to be quite honest, I would have made more of an effort to survive that trial if anyone more dangerous was on that suspect list along with me.

[BUT, THEY WEREN'T.]

I wonder how different things would have been... but things happened the way that they did, and perhaps that is for the better. We might not have reached this ending without the precise set of actions that led us to it.

[maddogs]

Sage's a fuckin' asshole. The fact he didn't give ya Joker was stupid as fuck.

[ SALT SALT SALT ]

You're allowed ta still be mad it didn't go right, but, ah... [ he sighs ] I don't think ya woulda wanted ta be alive, if they knew ya'd killed someone. Early as week 2, I probably woulda given ya shit.

[ altho most of his anger had been more at the way she'd handled the trial than the actual death -- and he wouldve gotten over it quick, like how he apparently didnt care about what zero did ]

It's easy, ta be righteous.

[deontological]

Perhaps if I'd been more careful with my cooking and hadn't made him sick... ah, well.

[SHE IS STILL UTTERLY CONVINCED THAT THE SUSPECT LIST WAS PETTY REVENGE. nobody ever tell her otherwise.]

I don't regret what I did - I still think it was for the best. [sorry hei] But I would have regretted allowing anyone else who was on that list to die in my place. At the beginning, I thought maybe I could go through with it...

But by the time you had more or less figured it out, I hadn't managed to convince myself to let someone else die.

[And so we got that half-assed confession at the end.]

In the end - it happened the way it was meant to happen, and we reached a decent conclusion afterwards. I can't ask for more than that.