Tales from the Dawn #3: "A Question of Life" (Hermes)

[Teraq]

If you’re gonna accuse us of escaping accountability, than I proudly confess that “mankind’s first edgelord” and “tears for the hedgehogs” were my tags. And what masks going off are we talking about? That we admit to finding Hermes an unsympathetic arrogant school-shooter like edgelord? Again, nobody’s concealing that.

Nice. I, for one, just rewrote my earlier posts into tags, because the comparison to the Joker will never not be on point. Hermes, just as much of a first step for mankind as The Joker is the first step for Gotham City, god bless.

The comparison actually does fail at one point, though: at least Alan Moore had the decency to end The Killing Joke on "it isn't society, it's just you, Joker".

Lyth, this is a bonkers thing to say, and you know it. This is not a diagetic conversation. People unsure if the sacrifices were sapient or not aren't unsure because they're indulging in in-universe moral relativity about issue in line with the Ascians, they're unsure because Natsuko Ishikawa, the real-world human being, literally hasn't written it down.

I admire your patience. I truly do.

For the sake of my own sanity I simply cannot bring myself to play the Bad Faith Bingo with the Ancients Bad crowd that haunts what has become of the Lore forum. Arguments are repeatedly made and ignored. What little canon we have to go on is continuously twisted into this weird echo chamber of headcanons that seemingly operate on a single basis: Villains BadTm and can never be relatable, right or have a point, or simply be just human beings... because that would be actually interesting.

(inb4 someone accuses me of being an alt because I never posted before Endwalker but talk about the Lore forum)

[Iscah]

For the sake of my own sanity I simply cannot bring myself to play the Bad Faith Bingo with the Ancients Bad crowd that haunts what has become of the Lore forum. Arguments are repeatedly made and ignored. What little canon we have to go on is continuously twisted into this weird echo chamber of headcanons that seemingly operate on a single basis: Villains BadTm and can never be relatable, right or have a point, or simply be just human beings... because that would be actually interesting.

Can we please stop drawing battle lines? It's both extremes of the argument that make the Lore forum miserable, not just one side while the other is completely reasonable.

[SannaR]

Can we please stop drawing battle lines? It's both extremes of the argument that make the Lore forum miserable, not just one side while the other is completely reasonable.

Exactly. As it often just needs a vague hint at the sundering or a thinly veild mentioning of how one feels about the otherside and how they view the sundering to cause such derailments. It doesn't matter which side does it as both do it. Of course it doesn't help that this story was about a person who starts us down the path to it. Hopefully the last one for now won't be from an Ancient's perspective. The crazy thing they could do us give us something from where we left Eric, Elidibus and Lahabrea at the end of the current Pandeamonium segment. As I'm sure all three would have somewhat interesting inner thoughts about what happened.