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.

share the same perspective on how we

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

you good,

it make

surprised by her

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

hero or villain—no truly good or bad person. People could do good things for bad reasons and bad

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

truly good, neither was she

to her, but

don't accept

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

path that I consider good and generate the best outcome for

was what SHE considered

then I AM good. Because the other side is what I would call

this, Rey said nothing

eyes shone brightly as he observed

understood why her current perspective was the way it

Chaotic Good… just like

followed their own path and philosophy of

the same at

Esme and Rey lay in

same thing that Esme would, but he did

But she was different.

right in her own convictions! That made

trauma…' Rey's thoughts trailed as he looked

in the

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you have an objective plan on how you'll go about this new ideal of

echoed in the room after

she had to say, but after waiting for a while, Rey suspected that

so, he

in defeating the Dragons. To do that, though… I'll