Take Your Time

Remember those owl statues in Arlathan Forest? The symbols on them made me wonder if I could try decoding them. Turns out, there really was some encrypted text there.

Here it is (literal, with original spelling preserved):

owls are spooqy

eating the mice

time to find out

is this owl nice

so when he knocks the brainwashed Hunters unconscious and reports it to Germany’s Hunters Association, the lady who answers the phone asks him if he has any evidence to prove that he didn’t just attack innocent people, which is why he has to go back and talk to the lady he was asking about Bjorn

this caught my interest in part because my initial impression was “dang they don’t trust their own S-Ranks”, until I realized that people like Hwang Dong-Soo exist that would absolutely murder someone in broad daylight and blame it on an unconfirmed phenomenon that no one else has ever reported.

based on that alone, I’d say it’s a fair reaction to ask for some kind of evidence, even though he didn’t kill them—which is it’s own evidence in a way since he would’ve had to hold back to do that, and if he was planning to hold back why would he attack them in the first place?

then I started thinking “shouldn’t this be the standard? why haven’t we seen this before?” and then I realized that both the KHA and the FBH basically bend over backwards for sjw all the time in canon, and we almost never see any other Hunters interact with any of the official organizations in this manner, so that’s probably why

so for now, I’ll give them the benefit of the doubt and say that outside of sjw, they do use proper protocol and actually fact-check what their biggest assets tell them

but then THAT got me thinking, if sjw gets special treatment as South Korea’s strongest Hunter, then why doesn’t Lennart? ik one of the big issues with the KHA originally is that they simply don’t have enough manpower to maintain the status quo if the guilds get too strong, so does Germany’s Association not have that problem, so they don’t have to be as lenient and flexible to maintain their power?

to me this implies that any s-rank who actually choose to follow the law is subject to its full scrutiny while any of them that don’t get leniency because there’s always the threat of them just blowing you up

and honestly that’s so unfair. I love it

we're looking to create an AI policy, and when we were talking about this, my boss (older millennial) was genuinely shocked to hear that younger people do not (seem) to view AI positively (a la the recent commencement speakers being booed)

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