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#(BC TOSH IS NOTHING BUT REPEATEDLY CONCRETELY FAIR)
adhdo5 · 2 years
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The Tosh/Nova “choice” is literally so stupid. Are you genuinely asking me if I want to side with the literal hand of the government that wants us both dead because I fear the risk of letting out a bunch of psychic murderers. IN WINGS OF FUCKING LIBERTY, NO LESS. “Oooh they might kill people and have scary psychic powers” NOVA YOU ARE LITERALLY A GHOST. IF YOU WANT TO SEE A SCARY PSYCHIC MURDERER LOOK IN THE MIRROR. “THEY MIGHT KILL PEOPLE” AND MENGSK’S GOVERNMENT WON’T? EMPOWERING MENGSK’S GOVERNMENT IS NOT EMPOWERING THE MURDER MACHINE??? THE GOVERNMENT THAT CAME TO POWER BY WIPING OUT A PLANET BY SICCING A HORRIFIC ALIEN ARMY ON IT (WHICH WOULD LIKELY ALSO PROVOKE A SECOND HORRIFIC ALIEN ARMY INTO SHOWING UP TO GLASS ANY POSSIBLE SURVIVORS OF THIS APOCALYPSE)???? THE GOVERNMENT THAT HAS A PSYCHIC ASSASSIN TALKING TO ME RIGHT NOW????? DON’T MAKE ME FUCKING LAUGH (AND SHE’S BEING FUCJED UP AND ABLEIST ABOUT IT TOO IN A CLASSIC EXAMPLE OF “THE WRITERS TRY TO DEMONIZE A MENTALLY ILL CHARACTER BUT THEY ACCIDENTALLY MAKE THEM A CHARACTER THAT I WOULD KILL AND DIE FOR AND BE IN THEIR CORNER LIKE A MFER BECAUSE THEY’RE LITERALLY BEING VICTIMIZED BY THEIR OWN WRITERS LIKE LITERALLY THE FASTEST WAY TO MAKE ME GO FROM 0 TO “I WOULD BURN DOWN THE WORLD FOR YOU”) 
AND THIS IS AGAINST TOSH. TOSH WHO HAS BEEN ACTING SHADY AND MILDLY INVASIVE AT WORST. TOSH WHO HAS BEEN FAIR TO YOU AND HAS NOT LIED TO YOU THIS WHOLE FUCKING TIME. TOSH WHO HAS KEPT HIS WORD AND HAS SHARED HIS CONCERNS. LIKE LITERALLY HIS GREATEST CRIME IN TERMS OF YOUR ALLIANCE WITH HIM IS TO KEEP SOME INFO FROM YOU AND TO ACT WEIRD. AND THE REASONING IS THAT TOSH AND HIS BESTIES ARE DISTURBED AND VOLATILE??? AFTER THE FACT THAT HALF MY UNITS ARE EXPLICITLY STATED TO BE DISTURBED AND VOLATILE CRIMINALS???? THE FACT THAT TYCHUS WHO IS EXPLICITLY MY ALLY IS A DISTURBED AND VOLATILE CRIMINAL AND NARRATIVELY HE ENDS UP BEING BAD BECAUSE HE IS WORKING FOR, YOU GUESSED IT, MENGSK AND HIS GOVERNMENT????? AND WITH, IN MIND, THE FACT THAT THE ENTIRE PLOT OF STARCRAFT II REVOLVES AROUND SARAH KERRIGAN, WHO IS ALSO A GHOST WHO IS EXTREMELY DISTURBED FROM A COMBINATION OF HER TRAUMA AS A GHOST AND THE ENSUING TRAUNA OF HER PHYSIOLOGICAL AND PSIONIC AUGMENTATION (just done with Zerg rather than drugs), AND AS A RESULT MURDERS LITERAL MILLIONS IF NOT BILLIONS OF PEOPLE, GETTING NOT JUST A REDEMPTION ARC BUT LITERALLY BECOMING GOD????? THESE ARE THE NARRATIVE PRECEDENTS WE HAVE SET LIKE. EVEN IF (BIG FUCKING IF!!!!!) NOVA IS TELLING THE TRUTH ABOUT THEIR MURDER CAPABILITIES IT IS ABSOLUTELY LAUGHABLE TO DITCH ALL THE SPECTRES FULLY BECAUSE OF THEM WHEN DISTURBED TRAUMATIZED MURDERERS ARE LIKE HALF THE TERRAN ARMY FORCE AND ALSO ARE THE OTHER MAIN TERRAN CHARACTER LIKE WHAT. WHAT. WHAT. 
LIKE ON EVERY LEVEL – MORAL, EFFECTIVELY POLITICAL, NARRATIVE, CHARACTER CONSISTENCY – SIDING WITH TOSH IS OBJECTIVELY CORRECT. THIS IS A TEST AND IF YOU THINK SIDING WITH NOVA IS AN EVEN REMOTELY ACCEPTABLE OPTION YOU’VE FAILED (Blizzard, unsurprisingly, fails of course. This entire rant about how it should be obvious is not me saying it’s good it’s me saying I think Blizzard is fucking stupid for writing this and thinking they did something about complicated morality)
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