#sera.

OPEN TO: anyone !! MUSE: sera moon; a witch who comes from a family who have worked with very powerful people. always happy to help people for the right price.

"that's doable, but it will cost you." her ambition is palpable. sera didn't get to where she is by working for free. "tell me more. i need to everything if you want me to help you."

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In this hypothetical, assuming Ran is aware of his forced choice, she'd make the choice for him by taking herself out of the equation. The movies have some questionable characterization sometimes, but movie 6 I feel is pretty solid with the train scene. I don't think she'd opt for suicide in a real life situation, but she would attempt some action to either escape or draw the potentially dangerous attention. If it could get her killed, it wouldn't matter when her life is already being threatened and putting others in danger. She'd kick the guy holding a gun to her head even if there's more chance of a trigger getting pulled than him dropping the gun. She'd want him to save others over her.

But assuming the ultimate 'not allowed to have agency', probably unconscious hostage... (Also assuming he's alone making the choice, and that the thousands of people are normal civilians, and a lot of other factors to put the situation in a vacuum with just his thoughts and reasoning alone.) He might hesitate, but he'd choose to save more lives. He'd obviously prefer if she could live, and would start grieving immediately (if at least internally) if she were to die as a result of criminals he's dealing with or a case in general. He's already made decisions that are basically 'this is highly risky, and everyone present including me could die, but we could save so many more' before.

and a proverb: "at least nemesis walks at your feet”; that is to say that the goddess swiftly pursues wrong-doers. "unnoticed she walks at your feet, snaps your haughty neck, and always holds sway over your sustenance with her forearm." — suidas s.v. nemesis.

it is both familiar and not, being back in this atmosphere. it’s a far cry different from working with signal, a group of oversized puppy children, suitably singing about cats and dogs. they look at her differently, they have to spread already too - long legs to get their faces down to her level. they fall asleep in the chair while she blowdries bleach damaged hair and they simper noona at her with bright eyes and full lips and she dotes on them as if they might be her children, despite being only fractionally younger than her, an almost negligible difference. but sheltered, in their way, by the isolation of a grueling trainee life. 

here on set with gun is different, but those differences are familiar. it looks so similar to the first sets she’d worked with him, and the range of eyeliner options on the table before her indicates a similarity in the style. he wants a call back to the last, they’d briefed her. like a reminiscence on the success he’s found since those days, on the soaring career that lifts spread wings, now. so they’re bringing her back to the fold - but tread carefully, they add, with a pointed look. 

and sera will. 

it goes back to want vs. need, externalisation and internalisation. as far i’m aware, most of the romances (i’m not sure about cassandra’s) have that tension between their wants vs. their needs. 

dorian wants to show the inquisitor he cares, what he needs is to accept the notion that he can be loved and cared for in return. josephine wants to be the dutiful, selfless daughter and heir, what she needs is to have someone who lets her be selfish. sera wants to fuck nobles up with someone who’ll help the “little people,” what she needs is to deal with her internalised racism and self-hatred. iron bull wants to be a good ben-hasserath, what he needs is to come to terms that maybe he belongs with his found family and not the qun. blackwall wants to be a better man than he was, what he needs is to stop running from his past. solas wants to fix the world he believes he broke, what he needs is to see that it’s still full of beauty and possibilities.