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Wise: Uh, For what?

Pubsec Officer: It's a standard random Inspection just to ensure the building is all up to code! It'll only take a moment.

Wise: Cool, uh ... could you give me a sec?

Wise: That’s just the nail that keeps all the stalkers placated. Connects to a line that when triggered raises a silent alarm.

Pubsec officer: Very funny.

Wise: No, I’m serious.

Pubsec officer: *knocks the nail down. A distant rumbling is heard.*

Wise: Deus misereatur nostri.

In Season 1 it felt like a lot of stories had to do with the cross sections between Justice, Business, Ethics/Morals, and Legality

The Hares stole the Strongbox from the Red Fang Gang, who had stolen it from someone else.

That's business. Illegal, ambiguously unjust, and morally dubious, but it is Business.

Nekomata wanted to avenge Silver by killing the Hares, or leaving them to die. When she learns the truth of how and why Silver died, she chose against her original plan, and instead choosing to help the Hares and the people stuck on the other side of the hollow.

Mislead Justice followed by Moral righteousness and a fight against the bad practices of Vision's Illegal business strategies.

Random Play, Meeting Belobog, dealing with VHK, that was all Business, going to save Rain was Morality (and a bit of business I think.)

Pubsec and Section 6 obviously represent ethics vs Justice.

Qingyi and Zhu Yuan cover for us and our illegal activities because it's the right thing to do morally - we're good people, we've saved lots of lives including theirs. Legality was at odds with justice and ethics, and lost.

Seth, Specifically, believes too strongly in the Justice of Legality - that the Law is right, and moral, which we have seen is wrong, that there are corrupt and selfish members of every organization in this city, including Pubsec. He has a good heart, and he would choose morality and ethics over legality, but would put justice over morals if he was pressured in just the right way.

Even the Agent Stories and Special Episodes are about this.

Virtual Revenge has a villain attempting to enact some kind of justice against Section six for how their troupe was dismantled by them, specifically targeting Yanagi for trauma.

Iron Witch was about a jealous classmate of Grace's steals data and blueprints and uses it for her own machine, and ends up having to pay for it, realizing her mistake.

Schoolyard Powerhouse was about doing the right thing and still failing. Justice and Legality failed Koleda, and the Principal got off incredibly easy for his crimes, but still, she tried to do the right thing.

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The interim between Seasons 1 and 2, Astranomical Moment and Bury Your Tears is more about Forgiveness than anything.

Eve has been lying to Astra the entire time they've known each other, but Astra forgives her because Astra knows who Eve Truly is in her heart - Eve never lied about that, and Astra knows it.

Hugo learns to forgive himself for the things he couldn't control - Sabrina's death, his mother's abuse, his own inner demons and desire to become exactly the monster he'd always been told he was, or had to be to survive.

Hugo apologizes to Lycaon for everything. And Lycaon apologizes right back. Things aren't right, not yet, but they inproved. They got better. They're getting better.

Vivian forgives herself for her tears and her foresight. the pain she tried to prevent the advantage taken of her for the Exaltist's sake, and tried to grant justice to the world by taking that corruptive medicine.

In Echoes of Silver, Twiggy couldn't forgive herself, or Anby, or Soldier 11, and so she died for it. Anby can't forgive herself either, for failing to save her sisters other than Harin, and for being a coward. Soldier 11 can't forgive Anby for her failings either. There isn't forgiveness, just blame and guilt, and failure.

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Season 2, however, seems to be about fates both chosen and stumbled into, and Acceptance of those fates.

Ju Fufu refuses to accet the fate of an adorable orange Kitty, but because she can't accept she is one, she's stuck being one before she can be a fearsome Tiger.

Pan was a wanderer, a mercenary and a thief, and he thought that was all he would be until Yixuan came along and offered him a new path, a new Fate, all he had to do was choose it - and he did.

Alice and Yuzuha are incorrigibly connected. They are fated to be together as friends, or in more/other ways, such as Sisters or Lovers. Yuzuha was experimented on by people from Alice's dad's company, and Alice's dad saved Yuzuha at the cost of his own life - they kept the separate pieces of the hairpins, they found each other again, saved each other's lives. They're choosing to forgive each other, Alice for being from Tops, and Yuzuha for being, well, a prankster mostly. Their fates were changed by Alice's dad, and now they get to make their own desicions, and they choose to stick by each other.

Lucia's dad died. He left there, counting, and she searched for him, forever. a game that didn't seem to end until she met the proxies and Yidhari. It's only when she finally lays him to rest in the sea of Ether does she begin to accept that he's gone. She got closure.

In her Agent Story, Lucia chose to fight the other Nightwatcher, choosing her fate as Bearer of the Staff, choosing to search for and make friends in the Hollows becoming her Literally making friendly Hatis inside of the Lemnian Hollow.

Manato had chosen his fate, to be the leader of the gang that leaft him behind, to be the strongest, but he eventually let go of it - that's the point of drowned Ideals. They're what you wanted most, what you thought you were fated for, and at one point that WAS Manato's goal - be the Strongest, and stand alone. In his fight with his Drowned Ideal, he showed that this fate, the fate where he's strong for others as much as he's strong for himself is enough.

Yidhari was content, for a time, to be a passive observer, part of the background and setting more than anything, and that's why she didn't have a figure for her drowned Ideal - the town was her Drowned Ideal. Passive. Unchanging. Where others get to lead their exciting lives while she simply watches, and it was waking her up and getting her out that she realized she could choose to be the protagonist of her own story.

In her Dream Event, her memories are dredged up, and she remembers what happened that day, the day she lost her parents. And she talks to one, or at least a facsimile, and Yidhari realizes her parents chose this life for her - she would've died, they could've just left her behind, but they wouldn't. they gave their lives for hers, and she has to learn to accept that and begin unraveling and coming back from that trauma.

Orphie and Magus' story with Isolde is about not accepting something, and how terrible it can turn.

Orphie is, quite literally, produced from the fact Magus's death couldn't be accepted. That Magus couldn't/shouldn't/wouldn't accept her fate, and so Orphie was made. Not Born, made.

But Magus couldn't steal Orphie's life. She couldn't evertake Orphie's soul, and accepted fate as a gun hanging off of Orphie's back.

Isolde killed people, at least dozens of people as Mevorkah. She couldn't accept the lost of her squad, and sought vengeance against Lorenz, and killed him.

Magus wouldn't follow Isolde down that path.

Isolde, chose to seal her fate, accepted her death and shot Orphie. Magus, in return, in a split second of the shot going off, drove the knife attached to her into Isolde's heart, before turning back to Orphie - who had been shot with a toy Denny gun.

I don't think Magus is over it, and Orphie almost certainly isn't but ... there's not much Fate to change here.

Seed Jr. had to learn to accept the fact Seed Sr. was gone, and not coming back (I reserve the right to say I bet he's still 'alive' in some way, out there, like BT-7274).

Banyue had accepted that Dialyn would take his core, and didn't fight it. He refused to let Nian Qing die, despite the fact Nian had locked them both in the Array. It's only when Dialyn lets him hear the last words of Nian's older sister and the Ye's parents does he accept he didn't have a choice in what he did all those years ago, and begins to live without guilt.

Ye Shiyuan couldn't accept the fact that Shunguang was chosen. That she would lose memories, her sense, herself to the Qingming Sword. he tried and failed to take Sarah out, and it nearly cost him his life.

Ye Shunguang 'accepted' her fate with the sword. she left it in its sheathe, she didn't tell anyone her senses were fading anyway, she didn't want anyone to worry, but we know she didn't want this at all because of white "Ye Shunguang," the selfish, survivalist side of her. wanting to remember, to be free.

And yet, it's when she HAD to remove the sword, when she finally chose the fate of being attached to the Qingming Sword as opposed to resigning herself to that fate, does she become as powerful as she is meant to be, and that the effects of the Qingming Sword slow - still there, but there's less dread in using it, it's a more equal deal now.

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Season 2's epilogue, however, seems to be about choosing who you are, rather than what you aim for.

the Angels of Delusion are all about that - Sunna wants to be a famous composer, Nangong pushes her towards that, Aria doesn't want to be a war machine, and Fairy has to remind Aria that, just because she was, doesn't mean she is. having Weapon Systems doesn't mean she has to use them, and that the same hands that can kill/have killed are hers and she chooses how to use them - not some 8-bit, 2-watt adaptive AI.

Cissia isn't an officer - unless it benefits her. She's a cowardly, cold-blooded, selfish girl - but also a kind, warm-hearted, protective woman. She faced the most mortally terrifying thing she'd ever come across because the Proxy was trying to protect her by getting her to run - but she couldn't leave. She chose, if not by active thought then by instinct, to save us from Promeia.

Promeia chooses to be miserable. she doesn't believe she deserves kindness, or warmth. Care isn't something she denies herself as a means of self-flagellation, but we know that she wants more in her heart. that she wants to pet Chalky, have drinks with friends, be unbound, but she fears that she's too far gone to be saved, and so chooses to be unable to be saved.

And yet, she warns us that TOPS is not to be trusted, not even those in Krampus.

She's hurt, full of guilt and shame, and yet she also remains kind, in small ways, that even tiny warnings are large signs she isn't evil, just in pain.

Billy, of course, as we've know, is dangerous. He was Feared, a killer, a thing more than a person, but now, he's Billy Kid - Starlight Knight Billy Kid. A hero, a goofball, a nice guy. not a Reaper. Not a Red Scarf.

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(According to the internet)

Comment Galatians 1:8 on all of their posts even if it's not related to the church cult. This needs no further explanation to make sense because mormons are wrong

Comment the heresy detected gif. This will make them leave instantly.

Simply say they're in a cult with no evidence. They have never heard this before.

Tell them they're in a cult using the most straw man arguments you can think of. Who needs actual facts when you can just repeat what your pastor/favorite anti mormon YouTuber says?

Tell them they worship Joseph Smith. This is true.

Tell them they're not Christian because they believe in a different Jesus and that they're actually atheist/pagan/devil worshippers. They may think they worship Jesus Christ the son of God but actually they don't.

Inform them of the priesthood ban. They definitely don't already know about this.

Say that their temple rituals are creepy and weird and that means they're in a cult. Only cults have rituals and nothing else.

Make fun of them for wearing magic underwear. It's not weird to talk about other people's underwear if they're in a cult.

Tell them Joseph Smith was a pedophile and deserved to die. This will not make them defensive it will make them listen to you and leave their cult.

Quote the banned mormon cartoon. This is a 100% accurate depiction of their faith and has not been criticized by anti hate speech groups.

Get their beliefs confused with another controversial religion. This always works.

If you're on tumblr make sure you tell them about the policies on queer people. A community of queer mormons have never heard this before this is the first time.

Point out bad things mormons have done and pretend that no other religion has done anything bad.

Tell them to read the Bible. If they tell you they do read the Bible tell them they're wrong because mormons don't read the Bible.

So some fanartist drew a “sexy” (read: booby) version of a (cartoon) character who is traditionally very non-sexualised. Fans of the character got mad about it because it’s kind of groundbreaking how that character is written and portrayed and this art totally ignores the entire point of the character. They demanded the art be deleted. In response to that other people said, well what the fanartist did may be distateful but they have every right to draw what they’re into. The two sides fight for days and each starts a harassment campaign and even report their “opponents’” accounts.

So far so typical. But things eventually come to a head and they decide that this will be settled by votes - not through a poll. Through donations to a children’s education charity via each side’s portal. Whoever can get the highest amount of donation wins.

Also for anyone curious, the character is Luye from The Legend of Hei II. Official design vs. the fanart under the cut:

It's rude. You're making someone take their time to read something you couldn't bother to write. You're telling them they were so unimportant you couldn't be bothered to actually take the time to say something yourself. And frankly, you're lying about it while you're at it.

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