An Extra’s POV

Is it right to take a life?

NO.

Is it right to take a life you believe to be wrong?

MAYBE.

Is it wrong to allow a life you believe to be wrong take another life?

YES.

In the endless spectrum of results, Esme chose the simplest path to arrive at her definition of morality.

"I will eliminate anyone who threatens the wellbeing of myself, those I care about, and those I consider to be worth keeping alive."

And so, when it came to the question of the two men and their daughters, Esme had her answer.

"If killing a man's daughter will save my daughter, I'll kill the daughter. If killing a man will save my daughter, I'll kill the man. And if I can kill the third party who started the twisted game, then that is what I will do."

There was no need for a moral dilemma or overcomplicating an issue that would appear simple to anyone living in a certain point of view.

"Why is that your answer?" Rey asked Esme.

"Because I can't save everyone. I have a life, and I am limited by my experiences. It's useless taking my opponent's perspective and experience into account. I am not them, and they are not me."

Rey slowly nodded.

"If I choose not to kill someone's daughter to save my own, am I so certain that the person would do the same if they were in my shoes? No… I don't think so."

In the end, humans only did things based on their perception of things.

"We don't see the world as it is, but from a contaminated lens of the self… eh?" Rey smiled as he looked at Esme.

She wasn't wrong in her analysis.

the same perspective on how we would handle the

never expected to switch to his perspective so easily, but after seeing the ugliness of the world, it seemed she too had come to

that doesn't make you good,

Why doesn't it make me

was surprised by her

one looked at it from

person.

kill another man's daughter to save

good, neither was she truly

to her, but Esme shook her

accept that." She

tone was once again serious, and her eyes gleamed with nothing short of

the path that I consider good and generate the best outcome for

course, it was what SHE

that, then I AM good. Because the

this, Rey said

crimson eyes shone brightly

understood why her current perspective

Chaotic Good… just

they followed their own path and philosophy of good… to

the

big difference between Esme and Rey lay in

thing that Esme would, but he did so from a neutral perspective—considering himself neither objectively right or

But she was different.

was right in her own convictions! That made her the most dangerous kind of Good

out her trauma…' Rey's thoughts trailed as he looked

just wasn't in the way I

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objective plan on how you'll go about

after several

after waiting

he

To do that,