The WOL and Mass Murder

[SentioftheHoukai]

Especially because, as we learned from a brief blip in the first Tales from the Dawn story, it's possible for someone to have a completely rogue creation that needs to be put down. In that case, a child's.

So not only do you have to worry about someone consciously deciding 'nothing matters and everything is meaningless so let's just start killing things', you also have to worry about the probably much more likely scenario of someone's emotional turmoil about the end of the goddamn world causing their creations to go dangerously haywire.

It's not just 'this information will make people who aren't ready for it sad and irrational', it's 'this information will make people who aren't ready for it ticking time bombs of emotional turmoil that even they can't control'. You don't just have to worry about Fandaniel hearing the facts and getting too dour to help, it's that you have to worry about someone who hears it and feels strongly enough to create an exploding bird that'll beeline straight through his office window, possibly without even meaning to.

We don't need people to possess magickal superpowers from anime or video games to have, and I quote "ticking time bombs of emotional turmoil" to fear, hate, wish to control and seek to destroy. Those things already exist, all around us in real, every-day life. And, they sow their seeds of destruction, chaos, and malice through the medium of knives, guns, and bombs.

I'm not entirely clear how these two peoples, these two situations are truly so magnificently different in the end. The specifics and outcome may change, but the methods through which we may usher the weak and vulnerable through it or even prevent it entirely are the same. If only some manner of understanding and care had been afforded those who came before, in contrast to the overwhelming amount those who came after receive. I daresay we, the Warrior of Light are disrespecting Louisoix's mantra as much as the promise we made to Emet-Selch. We do not remember, we erase and rewrite. We are indolent, for we only seek to save those we value as well as those our loved ones and friends value. We are failing as a Hero.