To go back to this: a) no he wasn't, and b) what makes you think he has a choice?
Remember how dad told the Technocracy literally nothing about us and vice versa because he didn't want them finding out about either of us? Remember how he burned significant resources on keeping us safe without letting the Technocracy have so much as casual contact with us? Remember how uncomfortable he was with how enthusiastic Lakshmi was being about her new "opportunities"? Remember how he only called in Technocracy support when it became clear that it was that or let us get eaten by werewolves?
Yes, and that implies that joining the Technocracy, as bad as it might be, is considered less awful than death. Incidentally, you're forgetting the other thing. Given that mom is clearly
not a Technocrat, they probably didn't want us in the Ascension War at all. So Lakshmi being an enthusiastic Technocrat is probably making him feel guilty at least in part because of that. He might not have betrayed her, but he certainly betrayed her
mother.
Remember how he refused to so much as meet our eye since we entered Technocracy custody?
These are not the actions of a man who trusts his bosses to do right by his kids.
Yes, and he
still said that they'd end up together again and he'd explain everything then. Either he's lying on the Technocracy's behalf-because he certainly didn't need to say that-or things escalated from here. I think the very fact that this is not only a huge betrayal of the love of his life but
creates a chance, however small, that his kids are going to die in combat is more than enough to make him concerned about his kids getting found out. Like, the theory that he knew exactly what was going to happen, rather than this entire thing escalating far beyond everything and anything he expected, requires him to be actively lying on behalf of the Technocracy.
In fact, here's another question. How the fuck does he even know we're here? Or what we
are? If he had known at birth, I think he'd have kept us even farther away from the Technocracy. I suspect they're still telling him what his son is, and on the counterpart that means he has some influence there. Clearly not enough to go through official channels and let us go, but definitely some.
Dad knew exactly what would happen to us both the moment the Technocracy found us. Lakshmi pulled out of school and conscripted. Meghanda shoved in a cell and vivisected until they can safely discard him. He knew all of that, and it terrified and disgusted him. He's still with the Technocracy because what the fuck else is he going to do, bust out that sick magic-accountant kung fu and run off with us both into the outback?
As of Revised?
Yes. People switch sides. It happens when the sides are more "unfriendly business rivals" than "actual opposing ideologies in a war." Iteration X is infamously a revolving door leading to the Virtual Adepts and the Virtual Adepts are a revolving door leading to Iteration X. He's the kind of guy who could walk away, has the resources to walk away, and if they're locking Meg up that means they're
so scared of us that this is like, not high on their priorities list.
Even more evidence that we're dangerous and have to be locked up!
Next they'll poke us with sticks and then when we yell at them, that'll be proof of a "Hostile Temperment."
(More seriously, when left alone to his own devices, Meg watched Netflix and maybe played video games. Dangerous future reality-terrorist monster trying to burn down civilization he ain't.)
I guess we're going to be assuming that the Technocracy are just the 1E Technocracy and are stupid evil and do everything for bad reasons, and everything should be read in the most damaging light possible, right?
