Lydia Martin screams (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
lydiascreams) wrote2015-04-20 08:55 pm
lydiascreams) wrote2015-04-20 08:55 pm
[031. I can take so much. 'Til I've had enough.]
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[Lydia took a break from sitting with Stiles and Kira, watching Scott as he slowly recovers from the death toll. She took Prada for a walk, showered, then got ready to go back to Kira's. But before, she wants to throw a topic out there. It's something that has been on her mind for a while now.
And after her talk with Kira about who hurt Scott and with Steve about who hurt him, after seeing what happened to Souji. After hearing about what Arthas did, she doesn't feel like they can wait any longer.]
I know everyone is still settling back in after the port. That a lot of you are still recovering from deaths and injuries, but I want to open a subject up for discussion.
I feel like there have been a lot more deaths on the barge lately. Both from inmates and wardens. And caused by inmates and wardens. I know a while back someone brought up taking the death toll for granted, and I don't remember what led to that discussion, but I agree.
We're all taking it for granted. If we die, we think we're guaranteed to come back. What if it stops working?
But even more importantly: why are we allowing ourselves to kill each other? Why are we dealing with murder as if there were no consequences?
I understand we don't always have control over our actions, I understand floods happen and we become affected. Infected. We become other people. But they are rare occasions when we're all out of control.
There is always someone around who can see things clearly. There's always someone who can take control and stop the people who are affected from hurting each other.
My suggestion -- and I would love to hear what the Admiral has to say about this -- is for us to find a system, an emergency system, where we can cap everyone's abilities -- human or otherwise, Inmates and Wardens alike -- if they become a threat to anyone. At any given time.
And I'd like to hear opinions everyone else might have on this.
[Lydia took a break from sitting with Stiles and Kira, watching Scott as he slowly recovers from the death toll. She took Prada for a walk, showered, then got ready to go back to Kira's. But before, she wants to throw a topic out there. It's something that has been on her mind for a while now.
And after her talk with Kira about who hurt Scott and with Steve about who hurt him, after seeing what happened to Souji. After hearing about what Arthas did, she doesn't feel like they can wait any longer.]
I know everyone is still settling back in after the port. That a lot of you are still recovering from deaths and injuries, but I want to open a subject up for discussion.
I feel like there have been a lot more deaths on the barge lately. Both from inmates and wardens. And caused by inmates and wardens. I know a while back someone brought up taking the death toll for granted, and I don't remember what led to that discussion, but I agree.
We're all taking it for granted. If we die, we think we're guaranteed to come back. What if it stops working?
But even more importantly: why are we allowing ourselves to kill each other? Why are we dealing with murder as if there were no consequences?
I understand we don't always have control over our actions, I understand floods happen and we become affected. Infected. We become other people. But they are rare occasions when we're all out of control.
There is always someone around who can see things clearly. There's always someone who can take control and stop the people who are affected from hurting each other.
My suggestion -- and I would love to hear what the Admiral has to say about this -- is for us to find a system, an emergency system, where we can cap everyone's abilities -- human or otherwise, Inmates and Wardens alike -- if they become a threat to anyone. At any given time.
And I'd like to hear opinions everyone else might have on this.
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[Lydia isn't really in the mood for this argument, but she likes her -- mostly from her association with Steve -- so she'll take a deep breath and go on.]
This isn't about taking or giving powers. It's about stopping someone who's out of control. Someone like Arthas.
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Exactly. And what did we do when he was?
Of course we aren't willing to help others all the time. None of us are, warden or inmate. But we do stand our ground, don't we.
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[And she does mean that. Even when the thing with Jerry was happening, she didn't want anyone to hurt him. It wasn't so much about Jerry himself. He would deserve whatever he got. But she didn't want the other people to be responsible for it. She didn't want Jerry to push them over the edge. Like he did with Stephen.]
What we didn't do with Arthas is the whole point. We should have done something.
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[While Bleu is entirely self-serving in her talk about powers, she holds tight to this point. Someone getting a good deal meant someone else getting a bad one, almost no exceptions.]
Like preventing it? That would have been prudent.
What about the woman? Sylvanas, the one who helped him?
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[And Lydia means deaths, mostly. As a banshee, she feels personally responsible to stop the deaths. And it also hits her like a personal failure when she can't.]
She seems to be in a coma, but we'll deal with her when she wakes up. Unlike Arthas, though, she's assigned to a warden.