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.

how we would handle the

seeing the ugliness of the world, it seemed she too had come to the same conclusion as

doesn't make you good, does

Why doesn't it make me

surprised by

you a bad person, unless one looked at it from the spectrum of

that vein, there wasn't any real hero or villain—no truly good or bad person. People could do good things for

Rey was simply saying Esme wasn't fully good. If she was willing to kill another man's daughter to save her own, or commit atrocities to achieve what she percieved to be a better

good, neither was

her, but Esme

don't accept that." She

again serious, and her eyes gleamed with nothing short

person. I choose to follow the path that I consider good and generate

what SHE considered the best outcome,

good. Because the

hearing this, Rey said nothing

understand now.' His crimson eyes shone brightly as he observed her

instantly understood why her current

Good… just

meant they followed their own path and philosophy of good… to the

not the

difference between Esme and Rey

would do the exact same thing that Esme would, but he did so from a neutral perspective—considering

But she was different.

convictions! That made her

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

wasn't in the

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on how you'll go about this

after several

but after

so, he

To do that, though… I'll need to get a lot stronger than I