#I'll start putting the translations on the alt's after its addressed

[tricks-n-illusions]

(@ask-the-shiny-pokemons) While exploring the Keepers universe, Edin has some eyes on Silas(?) as he proceed with caution because he might be careful of tricks.

"Hey...? You're Silas, right? I'm Noelle's friend. Where's your friends? Family? I mean besides her of course..."

Nervously the fox began to turn around fearing for the worst... She hadn't caught him already, right? He just got out here she couldn't have noticed yet? Oh... oh no. Who is that-?!

The tiny fox let out a shrill shriek of terror upon seeing Edin.

Oh... seems you've scared the little fox.

After a moment of franticly looking around for somewhere to hide and seeing absolutely nothing he resorted to cowering in fear under his paws. The poor pup was shaking, his tail was tucked in a feeble attempt to hide himself under it... though his lack of a tail seemed to prevent this.

...This very obviously wasn't the same Silas you knew, not the one from the past or the future. He was much more timid, skittish and scared.

Something seemed to catch his attention, however... Did they just say his name...? Not the name everyone called him, his actual name. Out of curiosity he finally peeked an eye out from under his paw.

He seemed to be speaking oddly... something familiar but not quite. But it was clear it was neither Pokemon nor Human. He continued talking completely unaware of the language difference.

Whatever he was saying... you could only make out a few words. Even as he continued to ramble on all you could understand was the occasional sad repeating of, "Silas?", "Ma?" and "Noe?"

→ Little Fox's profile has been unlocked. → Hm, Maybe someone should tell him you can't understand him? Perhaps that will help with the situation?

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Continuing to play through the new Penacony patch, maybe I'll finish up tomorrow after CPA exam cramming. The minibosses en route to the final boss are so annoying. Anyways, spoilers follow and I'll put translations into alt text. The Sunday vs Robin debate is just so interesting to me.

Also, I'm on team "would rather buy merch than in-app purchases" but got Robin! Idk how to actually play her yet but that's an issue for later! Anyways.

Yeah, so her elder brother is my favorite antagonist in this game so far. He's proposing something utterly disgusting, out of his savior's complex that imo kicked into overdrive after she almost died. But it was probably showing blatantly enough to her for a while before that, hence mail that was described as "pleasantries".

On its face, I understand the impulse of obsessively wanting to protect your sibling. They're your whole world, but at some point, they start to make their own choices. You might not understand them (like my little bro's interest in compsci) but if they're not hurting anyone, I think you should respect them.

So I get the horror of finding out little sis went out to a warzone to provide humanitarian aid and caught a stray. But this was ultimately her decision.

My personal take is that repressing free will is dictatorial behavior. I don't care about the "strong protecting the weak" excuse. And it was particularly dirty to start the dilemma game with the "hatchling" story, as that one really panders to this line of thinking imo.

In this case, I really do think that taking the wildlife to a rehabber is fine. And I suppose the Family would have enough resources to get the bird consistent veterinary care and everything else it needs. But this is still an animal, and we are talking about dilemmas involving free will of those who can talk and explain their thoughts to others. It's like one of those "appeal to emotion" arguments my history teacher warned about.

The man in the second dilemma deserved to get turned in right away. He's a monster.

I never considered anything but the "support" option for Robin's choice, but still had the lead speak with the party members, as to decide without consulting is some Sunday behavior.

And with that, we get the monologue.

Yeah, he went full Social Darwinist. There is no other description for a rhetoric that assumes that the strong should decide the happy life for the weak, particularly when he fails to provide a definition for his two categories. It comes off particularly heinously because this is a planet inspired by 1920's US, I suppose.

The party would need to track down Welt to answer his questions because I mean, some of the anti-equal suffrage comics we saw in history class sure were following that "women and ethnic and racial minorities don't know what's good for them" thinking. Also, man really bandied about this ideology in front of someone who would be stuck in a sanatorium back then.

For your consideration:

And so, it makes sense for Firefly in particular to tear this unholy lovechild of Social Darwinism and Messiah Complex a new one. Because ultimately, escaping from the flaws of free will is not going to address any of the issues. Yeah, sure, stay awake to power the Matrix where no one is terrible, but what happens when you croak due to sleep deprivation? Everyone goes back to failing in the same, or new and horrible ways! Or dies if the unplugging goes badly!

So yeah, the road to hell is paved with good intentions.