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xp_olarisI thought it was high time that explanations be given.
Only trouble is, I don't know what to tell you. Is what you heard true? That depends on what you heard. Yes, I kidnapped Forge. Yes, I nearly killed Remy. Yes, I destroyed the minds of two local children. Yes, I killed Alison's father. No, I'm not staff nor student nor any other extracurricular activity anymore and you're absolutely allowed to not want to be anywhere near me.
Any more questions?
Only trouble is, I don't know what to tell you. Is what you heard true? That depends on what you heard. Yes, I kidnapped Forge. Yes, I nearly killed Remy. Yes, I destroyed the minds of two local children. Yes, I killed Alison's father. No, I'm not staff nor student nor any other extracurricular activity anymore and you're absolutely allowed to not want to be anywhere near me.
Any more questions?
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I don't know if they told you...
Date: 2005-10-27 05:10 pm (UTC)Their minds are ... gone. As scrambled as that omlette you're making for Forge. They will _never_ lead anything like a normal life.
All their dreams, all their hopes, their very essences, are gone forever.
I see them when I can. Just to be there, to soothe their tortured minds, to try to mitigate your crimes. What will you do for them now?
Manuel
Re: I don't know if they told you...
Date: 2005-10-27 05:12 pm (UTC)Re: I don't know if they told you...
Date: 2005-10-27 05:16 pm (UTC)I should have guessed.
Date: 2005-10-27 05:20 pm (UTC)Nothing at all?
Manuel
Re: I should have guessed.
Date: 2005-10-27 05:26 pm (UTC)If I take a club and beat you with it, do you blame the club? No, you blame the person wielding it. Don't channel your blame and faux self-righteousness at Lorna. Direct it at the people responsible.
Re: I should have guessed.
Date: 2005-10-27 05:30 pm (UTC)Re: I should have guessed.
Date: 2005-10-27 05:33 pm (UTC)Manuel is disgusting, Lorna. You know this. At this time, he has no place to say these things. It is not appropiate now. I do not believe it will ever be - and even if it -would- be appropiate, it will never be appropiate coming from him.
Re: I should have guessed.
Date: 2005-10-27 05:37 pm (UTC)I'm not putting much value on the appropriate right now.
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Date: 2005-10-27 05:35 pm (UTC)Re: I should have guessed.
Date: 2005-10-27 05:32 pm (UTC)It was a simple question.
Date: 2005-10-27 05:45 pm (UTC)Manuel
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Date: 2005-10-27 05:47 pm (UTC)Re: I should have guessed.
Date: 2005-10-27 05:26 pm (UTC)I'm really asking. What would you have me do for them?
Manuel?
Date: 2005-10-27 05:21 pm (UTC)But if you can't exercise the infinitesimal amount of common sense it would take to absorb the information you've been given here and take that into account when you react, you are going to be banned from the journals until you convince me that you can think before you type.
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Date: 2005-10-27 05:27 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-10-27 05:30 pm (UTC)Malice did that to those kids, Not. You.
I've considered it.
Date: 2005-10-27 05:27 pm (UTC)I wanted to know what she planned to do to make amends, or if this was to be swept under the rug and made to disappear.
We can dicker and argue about degrees of culpability, about her nature and Stockholm Syndrome or any one of a hundred other things. It is tangential to the realities of two children who have had their lives _destroyed_.
Manuel
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Date: 2005-10-27 05:29 pm (UTC)Like some of the things you've done?
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Date: 2005-10-27 05:29 pm (UTC)Your displaced guilt is neither welcome, nor appropiate.
Re: I've considered it.
Date: 2005-10-27 05:32 pm (UTC)That's somewhat akin to blaming a rape victim for the crime, Manuel. Or to use a more direct comparison - if you influence someone with your powers to such a state of depression that they walk off a bridge, who is to blame: you or them?
Yes, perhaps Lorna DOES possess the ability to do horrible things with her powers. There's precious few of us who can say we're utterly harmless. Maybe, what, Doug and Artie? But the difference between Lorna and Malice is that Lorna would never and to my knowledge HAS never willingly done those things.
You want your justice and retribution? Fine. Malice is dead. Defunct, deprogrammed, erased, whatever. Yes, there are those left damaged by what she did; those children, Remy, Miss Blaire -- but reparations do not need to come from Lorna.