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abyssmalice · 2 years ago

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As a Harbinger, the subject of morals bears a more complicated answer.

The title is indifferent to things like age or innocence - for the sake of duty, she had to dirty her hands. It is a strange situation of needing to love the world to the point that she should be willing to do anything and everything for it, from the best to the worst of actions. It is her Tsaritsa’s ambition, the path she laid for everyone who wants to walk with her to take down the stars.

And of course, Tonia doesn’t give two shits about how the Tsaritsa regards the world. There is no doubt that the Archon has very respectable goals, but the means never justify the ends—the good labor to foolishness, to an extremity of cruelty and monstrosity.

How unfortunate, that her hands must be so bloody for this bright, cold war.

But knowing that, it is all the more important that Tonia remains firm in her moralities, personal and general. To know what is good, what is right - what is bad, what is wrong. What is beyond these stifling categories, what is both, either, neither.

And so, for all the sins she perceives - indeed, she will acknowledge them as so. For no matter how terrible of a person she is, it would be worse if she couldn’t recognize the horrible extent of her deeds. Certainly, she will be blase about it, she may not harbor as much guilt as she should—but she will never, ever, say with sincerity that she is in the right.

#headcanons | (without love it cannot be seen);#(THE RETURN OF FLOWER'S HC POSTS THAT ARE SO LONG SHE NEEDS SPLIT EM INTO TWO AND THEY STILL END FEELING A LITTLE LENGTHY ANYWAY)#(anyway anyway this is the more important half of the morals hc imo)#(the other one too but this part? important - bc she Knows shes not doing good deeds like Ever. even her inconvenient mischief included)#(which is to say while shes a brat shes not doing it Obliviously - she knows shes being annoying at best and harmful at worse)#(and while she'll pull up a variety of childish excuses - thats just a lie. and she Knows shes lying. she knows its all unjustified)#(and if truly prompt she WILL admit its all unjustified nonsense with no good outcome)#(which is basically to say she has a sense of morals in that ''yeah its bad but at least i know and will ADMIT its bad im not a hypocrite''#(a hypocrite in the sense that what shes doing is good or for the greater good. shes under no illusions the fatui are squeaky clean heroes)#(they have and will do terrible things for their duty. and toni will not hide behind an excuse of perfect justice)#(no matter how well meaning in the end - some things are just not right to do. and toni will admit that.)

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