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Jun. 25th, 2018 09:47 pm
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crystal | letter | cease and desist notices slipped under her door | action

cease and desist notice!!!!

Date: 2018-11-13 05:47 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] elegiaque
    K.

    We were not in disagreement because I am capable of holding two separate ideas in my head at the same time without nonsensically equating them, and I dislike it extremely when a specific point can't be discussed without first addressing something unrelated that ought to go without saying. I won't say that common folk have the same value as the people whose capture was under discussion because broadly speaking I'll give most people, common or otherwise, the benefit of the doubt that it would be a ghastly and untrue thing to say.

    The reasoning behind who is and is not captured as a prisoner of war, in this war, is not about their value as people and should under no circumstances suggest to you that they are valued more than anyone else as people. They are scum whose innate worth is less than that of the Blight. They are men and women whose power or position would have allowed them to fight against Corypheus—something that many people with less have been willing to do—and instead they looked at the rest of us, they looked at what Corypheus is doing, and they decided that our lives are collectively worth less than the outside chance that knowingly working towards our annihilation will personally benefit them. Their only value is how they can be used and they can and should be executed the instant that they outlive that usefulness. If they survive the war to do anything other than stand trial for war crimes, that will be an injustice to those who died in their place worth fighting against, but arguing that anyone else deserves their treatment right now does a terrible disservice to anyone who isn't presently facing rightful execution, and I won't be finger-wagged into saying otherwise by anyone.

    We were not arguing. Your point wasn't wrong, it simply wasn't relevant to the discussion at hand, which was the matter of what we do with scum we can use, and the cost-benefit analysis of taking such risks. Pointing out that it wasn't relevant because the things being discussed were entirely different isn't arguing against you. Someone isn't arguing against you simply because you don't like what they have to say or how they happen to say it. I don't bother discussing ideas with people whose opinions I disregard, so I don't know why I'm bothering writing this to someone who couldn't deign to hear mine when I said it the first time. Maker, you aren't even reading it. What's the point.


( although gwenaëlle had decided against sending this, she'd left it addressed on her desk; guilfoyle delivers it along with a number of other minor pieces of correspondence it had been among. )

Date: 2018-11-16 11:12 am (UTC)
elegiaque: (082)
From: [personal profile] elegiaque
( the main lesson that gwenaëlle has taken away from this, if she's honest, is that she needs to properly dispose of mail she doesn't intend to send. )

    K.

    Your point itself isn't bad—and it'd stand whether I thought so or not, no one within the Inquisition gives a fuck what I think, and outside of it I rather prove your point by being irrelevant without the right surname attached, that other twat banging on knew all about Lady Vauquelin, but let's not pretend that Baudin will get me anywhere near as far in the world—but you do it a disservice by making it so easy to dismiss you by ignoring the context in which you argue it.

    No one has to defend the Inquisition's position on who matters if you steadfastly argue it in a conversation regarding how we handle war criminals and the red lyrium creatures they drive ahead of themselves as cannonfodder. What you're doing is pissing into the wind in the hopes of breaking a drought. You don't have to care about battle tactics, but battle tactics are expressly and explicitly what was being discussed. Because we are going into a battle. For the Inquisition, which for all its many flaws—and they are many, and they are probably going to doom us, but as no one else is doing fuck all about Corypheus this is what we have—has never claimed to be here to do anything but stop Corypheus. The Inquisition was formed to find out who murdered Justinia, figure out what the bloody hell is going on with the massive glowing sky vagina, and deal with those things. That is its purpose, and any other good it does is incidental—that has been long since proven.

    What you're fighting for is survival. That's what we're all fighting for. The world is in a state of massive upheaval and we have a chance, a very slim chance judging by what I see all around me but a chance nevertheless, to not only stop our annihilation but to define what happens next. The Inquisition plays a role, but we've all seen what that role is. Stabilizing Thedas isn't the same thing as revolutionizing it. I will say this: on an individual level, I'm sure that it has as many hypocrites as it does idealists, but institutionally, the Inquisition has writhed in place like a bleating animal trying to avoid being forced to take any fucking stance, controversial or otherwise, beyond "we don't wish the world to end". You can't have hypocrisy where you don't even have the balls to lie in the first place. Don't pin your ideals to the Inquisition; I can say from experience it will only disappoint you.

    Ask the right questions. Who are we sending to the front lines, and why? What will the Inquisition do if our people are taken prisoner? Thranduil gave you a very fine opening that you ignored when he noted that a prisoner our enemy values has worth in potential prisoner exchanges; who do you think the Inquisition would be prepared to trade such a resource for? Who do you think would simply be told not to allow themselves to be taken alive? That's a conversation worth having. Shard-bearers can't be allowed to fall into Venatori hands, but would we rescue rifters if it looked easier to simply burn down the place they were being held and ensure no intelligence could be taken from it? These are better questions. They address what it is you truly wish to know, which is something what you were doing before did not.

    If you want to know if the Inquisition, institutionally, values the lives of the common folk: not more than it values safe familiarity, and it never will. Knowing what the people next to you care about seems quite important, given that. There is no tactical advantage to taking rank and file prisoners from Corypheus's army both because Corypheus cares about them significantly less than even the Inquisition's bleeding heart free-thinkers and because the most likely outcome is that they spread red lyrium blight throughout the Gallows and we all die, pointlessly. How people feel about that is an easy get: we get to blame Corypheus no matter what. No one has to take responsibility for what they think of that because he did the hard part already. He's destroying his own army from the inside out because all they are to him is weapons, and we have no cure to offer that but death, and so that absolves us of responsibility. Not you, probably, you're very responsible, but you see what I mean: the water here is very fucking muddy. What we're prepared to do—or not do—for those fighting against him is a harder thing to simplify away from us.

    It demands a better answer. It at least demands some thought.

    G.

Date: 2018-11-16 05:49 pm (UTC)
elegiaque: (057)
From: [personal profile] elegiaque
K.

I said that's all the Inquisition will do.

G.



( if kitty sees no future, then there's nothing else to offer her. the world not ending benefits everyone, but it's only an opportunity for change in that upheaval, in who is left standing afterwards. the inquisition won't do it. she won't lie to her about that to make her fight. )

crystal.

Date: 2018-11-18 01:30 am (UTC)
elegiaque: (134)
From: [personal profile] elegiaque
( —as seamlessly as if they'd been speaking already: )

If you don't see a future past the Inquisition—and all the Inquisition offers is that there'll be one, that's it's one job—there doesn't seem much purpose to wasting a great deal of paper discussing what I plan to do or not. Also, ( frankly, ) I'd be a fucking idiot to write any of that down.
Edited Date: 2018-11-18 01:31 am (UTC)
elegiaque: (Default)
From: [personal profile] elegiaque
On the Inquisition's behalf I quite literally once went to my lord's estate to collect letters he'd intercepted, made copies of and allowed to be delivered in their original form.

SMOULDERS

Date: 2018-11-18 01:55 am (UTC)
elegiaque: (139)
From: [personal profile] elegiaque
Absolutely all of my letters were delivered by messenger.

( obviously. what, gwenaëlle was going to carry them down herself? no. and guilfoyle handles most of her correspondence, and is entirely trustworthy, but he's also got knees old enough to have little knee grandchildren and shouldn't be bothered for everything. )

But no. Of course not. What I care about isn't what we were discussing.

Date: 2018-11-18 02:09 am (UTC)
elegiaque: (Default)
From: [personal profile] elegiaque
Things you'll be dead for.

Date: 2018-11-18 02:27 am (UTC)
elegiaque: (Default)
From: [personal profile] elegiaque
I don't see what the point is of discussing them if it's not practical. I mean—

( the grimace is audible in her exhale. )

I don't believe any of what you said about rifters. My entire life would be pointless if I did, I might as well give up now. But if you believe it, then I don't see what the practical benefit is to considering those things now. And I don't see why I'd discuss them other than to purpose.

Date: 2018-11-18 11:10 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] elegiaque
I don't know if you've noticed, ( dryly, ) but every part of my future features a rifter rather prominently.

Date: 2018-11-18 11:17 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] elegiaque
He is in all of my plans.

Date: 2018-11-18 11:18 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] elegiaque
Yes, obviously. I'd have a completely different life if he weren't in it, that's what I mean. My plans would be different.

Date: 2018-11-18 11:20 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] elegiaque
...why not?

( a genuine question. )

Of course I'd care about different things.

Date: 2018-11-18 11:24 am (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] elegiaque
Yes, and that's terrible.

( in much the same tone as kitty spoke of the marriage thing, and just as unintentionally revealing; she isn't mirroring it on purpose. )

It would be a different life. I wouldn't lead it the same way. I don't know what it would look like.

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