[X] Her first meeting, observing the courses of the Gold Autumn School with Xia Lin
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[X] Her first meeting, observing the courses of the Gold Autumn School with Xia Lin
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I mean, Dexter is a killer vigilante story about how being a killer vigilante is super unhealthy and bad even if you're sticking to clear villains, and you won't, because eventually you'll make a mistake. Those stories are about equally as old as the stories about how being a killer vigilante is super cool and good, and any story about killer vigilantes is inevitably going to do the other side for at least a short period during its runtime, for drama.
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The thing is that the whole point of Dexter is that he's not actually a vigilante at all. He's a serial killer with a specific target profile of 'murderer'...Dexter can and will actively help people get away with murder so he can kill them himself because he enjoys killing people. It's not about stopping their crimes or achieving justice or vengeance for either their victims or themselves, it's purely about the fact that he enjoys killing people.
His motivations are wholly different from those of a vigilante. He's not really any more similar to a vigilante than a hitman who kills other criminals for money is...his motivations are just as different from a proper vigilante's, as is his moral compass, such as it is.
Being a vigilante is not really good or healthy in most portrayals either, which would be why I brought up the Punisher, who is sincerely deranged, but it's a different motivation from Dexter on a fundamental level.
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True on one level, but there's an important distinction of motivation. Serial killers kill because they enjoy it, they may claim it's for other reasons but at the heart of it, they're addicted to the experience of killing people. There can be some overlap between that and a mission to kill 'bad people', certainly, but in the specific case of Dexter, there's no pretense that it's about some sort of mission...he's an admitted addict who does it because he feels compelled to do so.
He specifically restricts it to killers as a tribute to his dead father and the code of morality he was taught, but that is why he doesn't kill non-murderers, not why he kills people. He'd be killing people even without that. This is really really explicit and he does things like allow a serial killer to live for quite a while so he can study their masking behavior and mimic it. He is not killing people for the reasons a vigilante does.
Thinking of Dexter as a vigilante fundamentally misunderstands what he is like as a character. Shu Yue, meanwhile, was a vigilante, and seemingly has no need to personally kill people in that way, their burning need is for justice to be served, vengeance to be had. It's a wildly different mentality.
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[X] Her first meeting, observing the courses of the Gold Autumn School with Xia Lin
Shu Yue is the one children call to kill the fucking boogeyman.
[X] Her first meeting, observing the courses of the Gold Autumn School with Xia Lin
Did I miss her ascension to the third realm? I am pretty sure she was second...
Ascension to the second realm:
Ling Qi felt the hot spray of blood again, distant through Ming Xia's hands, A different sort of betrayal. A different flavor. The chains of the first realm breaking and the release of swelling into the new cage of the second. It was as sweet as she remembered, for all that it seemed so small now.
Ascension to the third realm:
The night the brothel burned, its women, and customers alike, while Ming Xia held the woman who had been the closest thing to her mother in her arms while the crackling flames and the screams mingled was the first time Ming Xia felt what Ling Qi could call happiness.
Because only now, as the bonds of the second realm strained and broke on a choking song of smoke and pleas, did she feel assured that Wei Jun's eyes would be hers again.
[x] Her first meeting, attending to another auction with Xia Lin, as buyers this time
More useful stuff is always good. Considering each time Ling Qi gets a hoard most of it gets auctioned, it will be nice to see if she can get something interesting and useful from auctions too.
Also, it lets Ling Qi have fun instead of doing something work-related.
The Gold Autumn School already is providing people for administration work in Snowblossom, so it's not like we need to go there to scout and hire people, that's already taken care of.
More useful stuff is always good. Considering each time Ling Qi gets a hoard most of it gets auctioned, it will be nice to see if she can get something interesting and useful from auctions too.
Also, it lets Ling Qi have fun instead of doing something work-related.
The Gold Autumn School already is providing people for administration work in Snowblossom, so it's not like we need to go there to scout and hire people, that's already taken care of.
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That Greens can be thought of as "mere" anything shows how upper class Ling Qi's environment is these days. Even Yellows can pull off (relatively) crazy/complex bullshit with the right arts.
