Is this what the whole rationalist Moloch thing is about? Is it related? "The pursuit of justice taken to its full extreme will necessarily make the world unlivable" is increasingly a fear of mine, and it seems at least related to the whole Moloch thing. Maybe we're like, deeply, philosophically fucked. I hope not.
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"All they were—all they had ever been—was a pair of sunflowers who each believed the other was the sun."
or alternatively, an ending where there were two victors instead.
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Day 28: RW 7th Anniversary
A dozen tiny threads; tied together in a great, incomprehensible web
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oh I KNOW they were menaces in boy scouts you cant prove me wrong
this drawing was born during a debaser book club read-along done by the wonderful @atitanbitch in the debaser discord..... imma just leave this screenshot here
creds for this idea belong to @oceanicjessie you are a genius
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When CT-9904, the clone that would one day become "Crosshair", was first pulled from his birthing tank, he did not cry.
This was by design.
Engineered to become a “stealth soldier”, 04's vocal cords were shaped so that he could not raise his voice above a frustrated rasp. It was often muted by his incubator.
CT-9902, who would one day adopt the moniker "Tech", was also silent, but this was always a cause for concern. When 02 was quiet, he was most likely attempting his next escape. He had kicked the latch off his first incubator. He had poked the hinges off his second. By the third, Nala Se had nowhere to put the baby escape artist.
Putting 02 in 04's incubator was supposed to be a temporary solution.
A week later, when the new, reinforced incubator arrived, she picked up 02, and found his hand locked with 04's with an iron grip.
CT-9902 cried.
CT-9904 hissed.
And so, the ever patient Nala Se left 02 where he was there. There were no more escape attempts after that.
One day, CT-9902 began to cry.
Nala Se was in the middle of calming 05 who was trying to wreck the changing table with tiny, but mighty fists.
"Omega, see to 02, please, he needs to be changed."
Omega slid off her stool and without looking up from her datapad she said. "It's 04 who needs changing."
"How do you know?" Nala Se asked.
"02 cries louder when 04 needs help."
- Excerpt from Cross and Crow (Read series on AO3)
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