025 VIDEO LIST NINE
Apr. 1st, 2013 02:27 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
deadliestviper[Locked to friends]
[As the feed flashes on Beatrix looks at the camera head-on, head slightly tilted and her lips in a thin line. She's sequestered in her cabin and looks tired but is steely-eyed as ever, emotion shoved far out of the way. There are more important things to get to.] How bad was it for you? Any damage done? [No mention of her public and sadistic threat. She doesn't see why it would be an issue.]
[Locked to Kon and Steph]
Tell me what happened to you. Please say you're all right.
[Locked to Arya]
Check in. Were you harmed or sent to Zero during the takeover?
[Locked to Ben]
Do I assume correctly in guessing we need to talk?
[Locked to Chris]
... Jesus fuck. [Enough said.]
[Locked to Riddick and Slade]
[Beatrix had threatened the partial truth out of Narvin easily enough, although he'd said nothing to incriminate either of them. Still, she has a sneaking suspicion they were playing her. There's still respect for both of them there, but she is Not Amused. Flatly, face and eyes blank:] Go ahead. Whatever you're going to say, say it.
[Locked to Narvin]
You're a son of a bitch, you know that? [She glares at the camera, but her tone's more resigned and annoyed than malicious.] How's the eye?
[As the feed flashes on Beatrix looks at the camera head-on, head slightly tilted and her lips in a thin line. She's sequestered in her cabin and looks tired but is steely-eyed as ever, emotion shoved far out of the way. There are more important things to get to.] How bad was it for you? Any damage done? [No mention of her public and sadistic threat. She doesn't see why it would be an issue.]
[Locked to Kon and Steph]
Tell me what happened to you. Please say you're all right.
[Locked to Arya]
Check in. Were you harmed or sent to Zero during the takeover?
[Locked to Ben]
Do I assume correctly in guessing we need to talk?
[Locked to Chris]
... Jesus fuck. [Enough said.]
[Locked to Riddick and Slade]
[Beatrix had threatened the partial truth out of Narvin easily enough, although he'd said nothing to incriminate either of them. Still, she has a sneaking suspicion they were playing her. There's still respect for both of them there, but she is Not Amused. Flatly, face and eyes blank:] Go ahead. Whatever you're going to say, say it.
[Locked to Narvin]
You're a son of a bitch, you know that? [She glares at the camera, but her tone's more resigned and annoyed than malicious.] How's the eye?
[Private]
Date: 2013-04-01 09:55 am (UTC)[He reaches up to touch the bruise. He's just glad that a bruise is all he got.]
It will heal.
[Private]
Date: 2013-04-01 10:13 am (UTC)[She's honestly wondering when the other shoe will drop and he'll request she spend a day in Zero for attacking a warden, even if it was just a (very well deserved, in her opinion) single punch to the face.]
Why do you care about her safety?
[Private]
Date: 2013-04-02 01:02 am (UTC)She was joined to the ship. Having that link broken suddenly through traumatic death could have been disastrous. She had to be unlinked first, otherwise we could have ended up facing anything from the continuation of erratic conditions with no way to reinstate the Admiral, to the physical dissolution of the entire ship. It wasn't a risk I wanted to take.
I'm not so pure-hearted that I'm wholly against assassination. But only if it serves a practical purpose, if it saves lives that can't be saved by other means.
[Private]
Date: 2013-04-02 06:31 am (UTC)I admit, my morality is not in line with what many of the wardens here idealize. But it's based on the patterns of survival and struggle I see in my world, and in all practicality, back home, it works.
It's true that I want to kill Toshiko Sato. I think she should suffer without reprieve for what she's done to the ship and everyone on board. But although I am willing to kill, I am not and don't intend to be a senseless murderer. In fact, if you hadn't suggested it as a viable option, I wouldn't have risked killing her while she was attached to the ship.
[Private]
Date: 2013-04-02 06:56 am (UTC)[Probably because he does things like this.]
She should suffer because we suffered, you mean?
If she were from my world, she'd be dragged before an inquisitor and put on trial. Gross negligence. Reckless endangerment. Unlawful incarceration. Torture. Impersonating a cosmic entity. They'd never let her touch a piece of advanced equipment again, and probably remove her knowledge of advanced technology from her mind.
But she isn't from my world, and the Admiral has decided that demotion is punishment enough.
[Private]
Date: 2013-04-02 07:02 am (UTC)[A small, tight smile forms on Bea's lips as she answers.] Precisely.
The Admiral's punishment is too light. She deserves worse.
[Private]
Date: 2013-04-02 07:32 am (UTC)[Narvin can be vindictive, but where he's from revenge usually means humiliating your enemies and casting them out of power, not killing them.]
How Hammurabian. One death for each person killed by the Barge while it was under her control?
[He's suddenly reminded of Leela, who was so determined to see a murderer receive justice and die regardless of what it cost her.]
I appreciate your desire for justice, but I'm a pragmatist first and foremost. And as far as I can see, Miss Sato's death now won't benefit the ship. She'll suffer, she'll death toll, and nothing will change. Meanwhile, killing her will cause trouble for you, your warden, and whatever unfortunate is assigned to be Miss Sato's warden.
[Private]
Date: 2013-04-02 02:07 pm (UTC)Why not? If there's anything unfair in that I've yet to see it.
[There's little difference between her outlook and Bea's. She could explain to Narvin that the simple act of killing someone changes everything, that bringing them back may do little to remedy that. That this isn't about the betterment of the ship, this is out of respect for the people on board who suffered and deserve to see their tormenter suffer in turn.
That it's about satisfaction.
But he's a pragmatist, and the more he says the less she thinks he'll understand it.]
Understood.
[Private]
Date: 2013-04-02 09:28 pm (UTC)Right now Miss Sato probably wouldn't even fight you.
[Private]
Date: 2013-04-04 07:35 am (UTC)That isn't the point.
[Private]
Date: 2013-04-04 08:03 am (UTC)I know that you want justice. And Miss Sato may indeed deserve to suffer. But I can't condone it. Not like this. If she were condemned by a jury, that would be different.