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"Let Justice Be Done, Though The Heavens Fall."
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"Leizi, I know you don't really like me. I don't care. I'm telling you this because I know you're the only one who will do it. You're not scared like the others. I need you to kill my sister."
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"Tch. You wanna hear something stupid? After that, I thought . . . I thought if I learned to take care of myself, then maybe Mom wouldn't have to worry about me so much. Maybe she could do normal things she liked like reading, or exercising, or finally going out with Uncle Gabriel. So, one day, when I was eight, I cleaned the house and had dinner ready for her when she got home. I was so excited to show off what I could do. Stupid.
Stupid. Mom came home, saw what I had done, and burst into tears. I thought it was because she was so happy, but then she started sobbing apologies to me. She said she was so sorry for being the worst mother in the world. That she was sorry she wasn't home enough. That her powers were the only thing that let her provide a good life for us, and New Dawn was the only organization that would let her keep her identity private. I . . . I didn't get it at the time. I just thought she was making excuses. So . . . I told her I hated her. I said I wished I had a different mom. I took it back immediately, and she said it was okay, but I
know she never forgot it."
The Edict from Heaven, from some false God, has been called down:
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EDICT: ALL THINKING CREATURES MUST LOVE SOCIALITE BUTTERFLY WITH ALL THEIR HEARTS. PUNISHMENT: A LOSS OF ALL MOTOR SKILLS."
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EDICT: ALL THINKING CREATURES MUST RECOGNIZE THEY ARE LOWER THAN DIRT COMPARED TO SOCIALITE BUTTERFLY. PUNISHMENT: A LOSS OF ALL SENSORIUM."
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EDICT: ALL THINKING CREATURES NOT NAMED YARA OLIVEIRA OR KAITLYN ENGLISH MUST KILL THEMSELVES. PUNISHMENT: CONSTANT STIMULATION OF THE PAIN CENTERS OF THEIR BRAINS."
Another monster who puts herself first, another horror of this horrifying world. Justicar's justice had the magnificent equality that bans both rich and poor from sleeping under bridges, and reinforced the power and image of a country gone wrong. Yet now it is being used to enforce not some cruel justice, but the most vicious and absurd injustice: Thoughtcrime for not worshipping a false idol.
Ellie has faced down Stockpile, someone who idolized her as the Perfect Justice, among other things. We know it is not true, but now Stockpile's life is at stake as well. Though they are enemies, this sort of death is something you cannot wish on anyone.
Justicar's beliefs… even, or perhaps especially, they will cry out against the evil being done here. She cannot object, she cannot deny that in this moment, Socialite Butterfly must be stopped.
Justice must be done, and these are Edicts. Even powered up by Scarlet Maturity's clone, they are the edicts of a fool, and let the True Heaven strike down all who stand beneath it!
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The Red Huntress had terrible parents. Indeed, just about the only sympathetic thing about Socialite Butterfly is the clear fact that her parents were all-time worsts. She's long past the point of being saved, there's nothing left… but there was a child, once.
But Harper knows this. Harper knows it all, and even long before this moment she said it: kill my sister.
It has to be done, it has to be accomplished.
The Red Huntress marks her targets, and the Red Huntress grows stronger the greater the foe. And here Socialite Butterfly has brought before us the most stacked deck imaginable. Mark those who are unjust, those who are monsters, and grow strong from the bloody justice you will enact against those who cannot be given another way.
The time for mourning a girl long dead is later… now is the time for justice, red in tooth and claw.
Now is the time for the Red Huntress to ride again.
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Heavenly Astrologian always felt as if she was a failure. Ellie Han has lived in the shadow of a loving mother, a mother who clearly tried so hard, and against the likes of Harper's parents might as well have been the greatest parent of all time.
She defined herself by her powers, and by her love for her daughter, and in the end she died. She died, but her daughter lives.
And now her daughter is trying to save a child, to save another daughter cast to the winds. To try to save everyone she loves. To try to save the only people willing to work with a vision of the hero group that chewed her up and spit her out… that wouldn't have done that.
To come face to face and know this, that there is no reason to cry: her daughter has become a hero, and though one wishes always that you might be the last, that others might be safe, now Valiant Gold is seeking to protect others, to keep the world safe… and she can do it, with her mother's help.
A girl is crying in pain for salvation, and the Heavens shall and must answer. To mark that lives justly and doesn't, to tear apart the bonds of earth and sky alike, to let the hunt be guided by the stars above… to Exceed Beyond all limits, Ellie Han must come to face this… and then overcome it.
Justice,
Hunt
Heaven
An angel needs only a single wing, for it is not its wings but its divine spirit that holds it aloft.
Go forth, young girl, and you'll become a legend
[X] Cruel Angel's Thesis
-[X] Justicar
-[X] The Red Huntress
-[X] Heavenly Astrologian
