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Magical Girl Quest - The Fire That Burns

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...seeing that this choice is rather important, let me try my hand on a few paragraphs.



The choice here, as far as I see it, is pragmatism versus morals.

Do keep in mind that this girl is currently an existence living in constant, mind-shattering agony and would continue to do so. Usually it would have been hundreds of years such a sacrifice saves, but her time is running out already.

Rukia said:
[] You deserve more than this.
[] Walk away.
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The wording of these choices is important.

One is to leave her be as is; Cerys is obviously not happy with doing so, but would do it to gain a little bit more time. This is not about honouring her sacrifice because Cerys does not think that way; if she does, it will just be a justification for her to stand by and let this girl continue to suffer for very little gain. A girl who she ended up respecting from just hearing about the decision she made.

The other is to put her to rest, to exchange a tiny bit of time for peace of mind and the knowledge this girl got to rest after most of her work was done.


While neither is objectively worse for various reasons, people that vote to walk away should keep in mind that there is nothing honourable in leaving someone just like Cerys to suffer in agony.
Those that vote to end her here have to be aware that it will have consequences also; I am not sure how dire they will be just yet, though there would still be time.

I do remember some people complaining about Cerys having so little compassion to others. Are those the same people voting to suppress her morals right now as well? (Honestly not sure, I did not keep tabs on who says what)

Also, do keep in mind that Gaia must have anticipated something like this to happen. Which means that if she let it come to this, she would obviously be fine with either choice. Assuming that Cerys would bring disaster upon Earth by making the barrier fall early is therefore not a viable counter to this.



tl;dr: Leaving her be would be being pragmatic, mercy-killing her would be doing what is right.
 
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I've already said my opinion on this vote, so a little bit of trivia I've derived that's not related to the choice.

Assuming that the age of the barrier (2806 years) and the wording about the one involuntary MG implying her expected "service time" of 280 years was known in advance and/or typical, the total number of sacrifices is no more than twelve, likely one or two less.
 
Naron said:
Also, do keep in mind that Gaia must have anticipated something like this to happen. Which means that if she let it come to this, she would obviously be fine with either choice. Assuming that Cerys would bring disaster upon Earth by making the barrier fall early is therefore not a viable counter to this.
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Do keep in mind that Gaia is not infallible, and her being fine with something does not necessarily imply that it'll all work out.
 
LostDeviljho said:
I mean they're screwed either way, tbh. It's just a question of being screwed sooner or later?
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Eh. It may be true for humans in general, but for Gaia and, by extension, Cerys?

Besides, that would still prove the point I was trying to make: neither of these choices is any more likely to doom Earth than the other, so it should not be used as an argument in favour of either one.

Jrin said:
Did that happened?
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Not as far as I know, no. Which is what I mean.
 
Actually there is a good point to be raised. Better perhaps to have the barrier fall now while earth as a whole is on a war footing than to have it fall later when we've all had a good start on murdering each other...

Changing my vote.

[X] You deserve more than this.
 
I mean.
Rukia said:
You did this willingly didn't you. You feel shame in your chest, because you know, that if the choice came to your sister or the world...
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Letting the barrier fall sooner could be better for the world, but what would be better for personal relationships?
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A year of peace for our sister or only 3 months :V
 
SpeckofStardust said:
Letting the barrier fall sooner could be better for the world, but what would be better for personal relationships?
:drevil:
A year of peace for our sister or only 3 months :V
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I would like to remind you that Rukia's muse has the habit of going haywire if there is nothing to do. Quite a few of the recent events came to be spontaneously.
So if you want to give Rukia more than a whole year IC to come up with events, be my guest :V

(Besides, no one said that the war is going to start the very minute the barrier falls)
 
Naron said:
I would like to remind you that Rukia's muse has the habit of going haywire if there is nothing to do. Quite a few of the recent events came to be spontaneously.
So if you want to give Rukia more than a whole year IC to come up with events, be my guest :V

(Besides, no one said that the war is going to start the very minute the barrier falls)
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I always start at worst reasonable case situations and work my way up.
Also Rukia's best sounds like an great thing to see. :whistle:
 
No it's not right. It's incredibly selfish to stop her agony just because it's in front of us. We need and will have replacements for the barrier soon, but they aren't ready yet. And her suffering will end soon.

She is helping protect Una. Helping to protect _her_ Unas.

If we had been in her place, and she stood with her hand on her sword, would we have wished for her to cut?

I /think/ we wouldn't. But am not sure.
 
[X] Walk away.

The way I see it, mercy killing is the selfish choice so Cerys can feel a little better while condemning the rest of the world to more casualties.

Edit: removing my vote.
 
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