Hazel was fighting because his sister died fighting someone else's war, while they knew it was unwinnable and didn't tell them. That was before we knew that Salem just wanted to end everything. He died so that I wouldn't be forced to fight her war, but I can't just let everything end either. Not when I know I'm.. maybe one of the only people left who can help.
[ She's pretty sure RWBY, Jaune, and Penny are dead. Which leaves her, Oscar, Ren, Nora, and Winter. And a buttload of Atlesian refugees she blames herself for helping happen. ]
If he would've wanted anything, it would be to make a world where kids didn't get sent off to certain death for the sake of people who couldn't care less what happened to them.
[ It may not have been her exact circumstance, but it's close enough that she can empathize with it. Emerald grew up with no one who loved her, left her on the street to fend for herself, and then was treated like a criminal merely for trying to find a way to feed herself. This, in turn, attracted Grimm-- creatures who could sense negative emotion and hunt it. If not for her ability to make both people and those creatures see and hear whatever she wanted, she probably would've been given a death sentence at the hands of those people who didn't care. Those people happened to be her parents, but she can see the intentionality of recruitment of kids toward a certain death while lying to them about the circumstances was pretty bad too. ]
I don't know how to do that. It's like you said, back home there's no time to be angry or scared, you just have to act, and everything else just becomes... background noise to what's right in front of you. Except here, it's quiet. Somehow the middle of an apocalypse is the quietest it's ever been, and it somehow makes it worse because now I just feel like there's nothing I can even try to step forward with. You know?
[ Maybe he doesn't. He can work on himself here just fine. Emerald just feels trapped and stuck. ]
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[ She's pretty sure RWBY, Jaune, and Penny are dead. Which leaves her, Oscar, Ren, Nora, and Winter. And a buttload of Atlesian refugees she blames herself for helping happen. ]
If he would've wanted anything, it would be to make a world where kids didn't get sent off to certain death for the sake of people who couldn't care less what happened to them.
[ It may not have been her exact circumstance, but it's close enough that she can empathize with it. Emerald grew up with no one who loved her, left her on the street to fend for herself, and then was treated like a criminal merely for trying to find a way to feed herself. This, in turn, attracted Grimm-- creatures who could sense negative emotion and hunt it. If not for her ability to make both people and those creatures see and hear whatever she wanted, she probably would've been given a death sentence at the hands of those people who didn't care. Those people happened to be her parents, but she can see the intentionality of recruitment of kids toward a certain death while lying to them about the circumstances was pretty bad too. ]
I don't know how to do that. It's like you said, back home there's no time to be angry or scared, you just have to act, and everything else just becomes... background noise to what's right in front of you. Except here, it's quiet. Somehow the middle of an apocalypse is the quietest it's ever been, and it somehow makes it worse because now I just feel like there's nothing I can even try to step forward with. You know?
[ Maybe he doesn't. He can work on himself here just fine. Emerald just feels trapped and stuck. ]