capeandcowl | [voice]

My, things really are getting interesting! Deep introspection on the human state, theatrical attacks upon the City of Angels, a dastardly politician - isn't that a surprise - becoming leader of an elite group focused on the destruction of our very lives. It's all so thrilling!

Alas, I still languish in this prison. Really, I could be doing so much more outside of these walls! Tyki, James, you both owe me a visit and a kiss for playing so nice in here for this long! [Protip: he couldn't break out if he tried.] Now that I'm thoroughly bored, why not follow the bandwagon for once and pose a moral quandary? You all seem quite fond of them.

You're in a room with a man wielding a gun and holding two children hostage - one is six, the other fourteen. He tells you that you may choose one to let live, and that the other will die. If you make a move, he will kill one of the children at random and seriously injure the other; no, I don't care what your powers are, we're playing with the rules of the game. You have no weapons on your person. If you move quick enough, you may overpower the man and take away his gun - but it won't save the children.

Now which one to let live, hm? The younger one? Or the older?

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It's all up to personal interpretation, urchin! I asked which you would save, not whether you would save either of them.

I've seen it happen before, but wasn't involved. Terribly thrilling affair. The gunman shot the man trying to save the children and then shot both the children, then himself. It was such a twist ending.

The younger. Few are going to say anything else, because people are wired to protect the youngest of us since there's a better chance of the younger generation preserving the species.

Oh, right. Grim Reaper. I forgot.

So do you actually influence any of the deaths like that where it wasn't just you going on the rampage, or were you just an observer?

A natural human reaction.

I have to check up on things that affect my lists. Serial killers, environmental factors that end in death, natural disasters - those sorts of things. This man had killed before, and once I verified that, I followed as an observing third party just to kill some time.

[A grin.]

But...on occasion...I've been known to choose my favorites and assist them in their bloody affairs. There's really nothing like a Reaper helping you commit crimes to keep you out of the constable's grasp.

And no one in the afterlife gets pissed off at you for that?

Well...I've never been known to follow our rulebook to the T...

[Translation: "I routinely kick Shinigami regulations in the teeth. For the lulz."]

So not all Grim Reapers are flamers who preen themselves constantly?

In less rude terms, yes. William is quite the icy cold stickler for rules and regulations. He's magnificent. An Adonis of the rulebook, Gilgamesh of the Shinigami coda - and unshakably cruel towards me, horrifically so!

So is there ever a breaking point for how much of your crap they'll put up with? I mean, has it ever gotten to the piont where Reapers have had to kill other Reapers?

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