iamresponding: (bucketless - bite lip)
Nova Prime / Rich Rider ([personal profile] iamresponding) wrote in [community profile] thelegion 2017-03-20 07:17 am (UTC)

permalocked

[He's got a good enough bead on the native Legionnaires that he suggests America do what he doesn't know she already did.]

Kid Q and them probably aren't going to just let these people wander around scot-free, Brainy's feelings on multiversal jurisdiction notwithstanding. I'm sure we can get them to work out some kind of reasonable extradition agreement.

[But that's not the most important thing to focus on here.]

That aside... [He struggles to find the words.] I think it's less everyone not treating it with the seriousness it deserves, and more desensitization.

For soldiers, that kind of death becomes the norm. For cops, it's the worst goddamn day of your life. As someone who was both, the worst goddamn day of my life became the norm and I can't even put into words how that --

[He stops, because his brain just...kind of blanks out, and he chews on his lip a little.]

I'm not excusing it. I agree with you that something needs to be done when this is all over. But this is less a lack of compassion and more everyone being just a little crazy, and all a slightly different kind of crazy.

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