To be honest, while I see the narrative appeal of truth, and I guess Mirage's guilt pushes her that way, the arrogant self-righteousness of them demanding answers of Mirage in this context with jack and squat real justification, plus Edna's 'assistance' during the incident, is really pushing me to lie. This feels more like caving under guilt and peer pressure than character growth.
Seriously, who the hell made them the Spanish Inquisition? Hego may have come in with the save, but he'd be toast halfway through without our people pulling his ass out of the fire and it's not like sister is an angel so yeah.
Yeah, but I feel like Mirage would tell the truth if she were in control. Her entire character arc seems to have been leading up to this moment.
We only get one MirageQuest Turn. Let's go big or go home.
Yeah no, Mirage has been chafing under the strain of her sins for a while now and genuinely wants to "face the music" because she considers herself beyond all salvation - this "Gridlocked Inquisition" wanting answers NOW is just the final push she needs to get through with it for good.
So it totally tracks for me.
And let´s be honest, with our dice luck it was a bit of a long shot for us to expect to ace two wildly different and probably high DCs, so us failing at least one of them has always been a realistic possibility.
Is murder illegal if it happens in an island that's in international waters?
Say, what even *Happened* to that island in the wake of Kronos and now probably Olympia as well crashing into the ground?
Easy choice. Tell everything.
We blew the chance for stuff not to get out.
I can't believe Mirage rolled a 2...
Fortunately, Hego came through for the win.
Now it's time to see the fallout.
I'm hoping Sinatron is still functional and considers staying to fight and telling Hego counts as redemption and helps out Mirage somehow.
Honestly?
If Mirage telling *everything* in the knowledge that she has a good chance of landing behind bars for and still doing it because it´s the right thing doesn´t count as "seeking redemption" in Sinatrons eyes, I got no clue would.
I really think it really deserves emphasis on how Hego beat Evelyn. After countless years of insisting on monologuing and looking good over helping people and saving lives, Hego's is finally at his most heroic by him pragmatically cheapshotting a villain and then knocking them out before they can get a second wind or recover.
Well, he´s just about *done* with being seen as a naive wannabe, so it makes sense for him to just cheapshot Evelyn (who equated him to the likes of herself, mind you - that´s gotta sting even the kindest man)
...Plus, now that I am thinking about it, what if him cheapshotting Evelyn was also him *conciously trying to prevent Mirages reputation from utterly tanking by things getting aired*? Would still kinda fit his chivalrous mien, you know?
Maybe Hego is not as dumb about those things as we thought, guys....
