Your Fading Memories

*OOG it looks as if the entire message is written in anger*

So I'm in full agreement with Sergei.

We're giving every evil soul a second chance now right?

I find it odd that we choose to kill and murder enemies that wish to conquer this world. Yet when something actually does it, they get to live.

Everyone who advocated for her living spit in the hardships that she caused for the 5 years we lived under her boot. Real or not, those feelings and memories will stay with those who wish to remember.
I'm glad you choose to decide those who died under her rule don't matter.

Sergei, if you ever want to grab a drink and talk, feel free to find me.

She lived so she could suffer. Why allow her to simply die to pay for what she has done? She was stripped of all powers and is being made to live in an imperfect world to suffer, like she made everyone else do. Whether they fought against her or unwillingly for her, she now suffers like them.

-Ebony Hale

I wanted her to live so she could suffer. Stripped of her power and forced to live in a world that she hates. She is taken away where she cannot bother another person, and she cannot do anything about it. She will live out the rest of her days suffering. Death is too good for her. If I had my way she would feel every bit of pain she ever inflicted to others, both physical and emotional, every day for the rest of her life.

~Khala

Am I missing something? I thought she wouldn't remember anything? Because if she doesn't remember anything. all she'll know is that she has powerful siblings, she's the only one who doesn't have power.

Sounds like a recipe for a resentful child than a punishment for a criminal who nearly destroyed Arawyn as we know it.

You're all entitled to your opinions. Just like I'm entitled to mine. I just hope you don't regret this decision in the future.

Instead of seeing Eden as some outside monster that some of us chose to give a second change, you all who are so resentful, should acknowledge that people of this town created her to be the monster she was, she learned much of her strength because of Travance.

Perhaps you should try to see what happened, if you remember, as punishment for what happens when you let your own personal hubris rule your lives. The world is bigger than your own choices and suffering. What we do can in fact save or doom our whole world. Our particular strength of spirit should not be taken lightly and only fools bemoan the consequences of the bed they helped make. Even if they did not teach the monster directly, they did not step in or took no action at all. Those are decisions and we reaped what we sow'd.

If you do this, then maybe next time I'll consider killing the monster. You should always be able to put down what you create, but unmaking them is just fine too.

Miss Nadia is right. She was treated like a monster, and then given even more power than she had when she started. If you treat someone like a monster, how can you expect them not to become one? And we can take that lesson and apply it to each other. Some of us felt she should be spared. Some of us didn't. We all suffered together at her hands. Maybe some of us saw something worth saving in Eden. Maybe some of us wanted her life as recompense for the pain she caused. Maybe some of us just wanted to know that she couldn't do the same thing ever again and didn't care if she lived or died.

Anyone who knows me at all and knows what I stand for knows how I feel about it personally. But ultimately, that doesn't matter. The choice was made and what's done is done. The only power she still has over us is the power to divide us over this. However you feel... however your neighbor feels... we don't have to waste time and energy arguing over what should or should not have happened.

Look to the future that we now have. Look to the friends that we've made who stood with us and risked so much to help us save the world, even turning against their own sister. Please take the lesson from this. Don't treat them like monsters too. And don't treat each other like monsters. Even if you don't agree. We fought so hard for a world where we COULD disagree. Let's make it worth it.

-Midori Suarez
Daughter of Mercy