here you go!! its mostly just the dialogue rn i'll probably go back later and add more Thoughts but have a lil convo between Wild and Warriors post battle :D --------
"Do you think I'm a bad person?"
Warriors whips his head up to look at Wild incredulously.
"What?"
Wild fidgets where he sits, fumbling with the corner of his cloak.
"I-- I've always tried to spare the Yiga, give them a chance to come to their senses, or something. I've never willingly taken a life. You... spoke about survival over honour, rancher said. Do you think I'm a bad person for choosing honour, even if it gets me hurt?"
"Are you asking me if I think you're a bad person for NOT killing people?"
Wild looks at him with wide eyes, shrinking back into his his hood in embarrassment.
"When you put it like that..."
Warriors sighs.
"Champion. I think you are one of the kindest people I have ever met. Believing that there is good in everyone, that redemption is out there for all, and sticking to that conviction? That is something you will not find in many people. And I am happy you have not been forced to choose between those convictions, and your life."
They sit in silence for a few moments. Then,
"You don't think it's foolish?"
A tricky question. Warriors knows Wild does not know much of his time as a knight - nor what a knights training entails. If he did, he would know that you are taught not to show mercy, not to give second chances. He does think it a bit foolish, to give chances to traitors. but he has seen those turn to good - Sometimes, very rarely, it is worth the chance.
"I do not think it is foolish to have hope, kid." a pause, "Unfortunately, it... not everyone thinks that. You believe you are giving them a chance to be better. All they see is another opportunity to slit your throat. Positive change has to come from within, and lot of people have already made the choice to commit to their actions, and all the implications of them."
He's already committed to his own. Someone who takes lives for a good cause - but someone who takes lives nonetheless.
"This isn't actually what I wanted to talk about."
"Oh?"
"I wanted to say thank you. For saving me. I honestly don't know what choice I would have made if I were on my own. I'm sorry the choice had already been made for you, but thank you. For not forcing me to."
"Of course. No one should have to be forced to go against their convictions. I will happily use my circumstances to protect you from that."
This path, the one he walks, have long since become a part of his convictions. But Wild doesn't have to know that.
OH MY WORD THIS IS FANTASTIC!!!!!!!!!!!!! DHAHSKDHSNDBDKDJFHDKSJEHDIRHDJSOSJDJDJDJSJ!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!/&/&
WARRIORS YOU POOR BLORBO, SOMEONE GET THIS MAN A HUG.
(Wars calling Wild ‘kid’? I am dead, I’m am dying, WATCH ME-)
