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Post by question on Aug 14, 2011 23:45:54 GMT -5
So you would rather be a mindless drone an follow the rules or be yourself? If someone told you to kill a man because it was the law would you do it? If it was against the the law to stop a mugging would you walk right by an let someone get hurt? This was falling back on his idea that the law wasn't always right.
If you get out an see the world an were able to choose what you want to beleive in Kiddo, you would see it in a different light. Of course he knew that she couldn't, that she had no choice in the matter. She needed to be with people her own age, go to school the like.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2011 1:16:14 GMT -5
Considering his questions for a moment, Phoebe replies, I think it's better to follow the rules unless you know for sure that they're wrong - and only if you're a good person so you're sure you know what you're doing, I guess. Of course, the amount of uncertainty in her mental tone is a hint of her mixed feelings on the subject.
His second thought is actually something she's pondered over herself. She'd like to go out an just see things sometime, but she also recognizes that she's a child and not old enough to necessarily take care of herself. Sure she has no problem smashing humanoid robots and can catch bad guys with nothing but her thoughts, but that doesn't mean that she'd manage her day to day life very well without someone watching over her. In short, she needs parental supervision - and she's actually aware of this. When you're able to keep adults as far away as you want, you learn that you need them after awhile. Phoebe learned that a few years ago.
But instead her thoughts settle onto a different question. Why do you keep thinking that I need to play and stuff? she asks curiously.
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Post by question on Aug 15, 2011 1:31:29 GMT -5
He folded his arms over his chest in his cell, perhaps it is time for a change of subject, Question figured he had confused the poor girl enough. Because its what Kids are supposed to do. not be cooped up in places like this. you should be in a school right now. Or home with family. Playing in the yard with a dog or cat.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2011 1:48:16 GMT -5
Frowning a little bit to herself as she shifts on the bench she's sitting on, Phoebe thinks Well, this meeting is boring and I get asked to do a lot of hard things, but I also like my job: I'm strong enough to make a big difference and it's fun too. And I learn school stuff - I just don't have enough time for normal school because of training and stuff. All of which is very true: she takes a lot of pride in her abilities and enjoys being able to use them to great effect. Still, she's always liked cats...
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Post by question on Aug 15, 2011 1:54:45 GMT -5
This isn't the life a kid your age should have though, Plenty of them are just like you powers an all having a normal life. Something about what they were making her do didn't sit well with Question at all. It seemed like she had never had a say in the matter, an what were they going to do when they finished this little act of a pissing match. Which was exactly what it was. Were they going to put her back in storage or just kill her like they did with things they no longer needed. It was just appalling.
you shouldn't have to do any of that, its not your battle to fight for them.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2011 2:22:48 GMT -5
Considering that thought for a moment, Phoebe says, No, not like me. I know there's a lot of kids my age with powers, but they're not like mine. I'm... stronger. And I like catching bad guys - whenever I don't help it's always a lot harder and more people get hurt. Sometimes killed. Maybe I'm like you that way - I don't want people to get hurt. Except I don't break the law when I do it.[/color][/i] Of course, that's mostly because the people she's working for effectively are the law in Gotham right now.
When his thoughts turn to speculation on what will happen to her when this is over, she simply says, Killed? No, they wouldn't do that. And if I do a good job here, they'll probably want my help with other things too. Agent Stevens has said so multiple times, and even if the woman was lying about that, Phoebe would have known.
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Post by question on Aug 15, 2011 2:31:29 GMT -5
Question shook his head, he wasn't sure how to explain it to her. Right now the law was fundamentally breaking itself, acting against the laws that made the country what it was. People's rights were being taken away for no reason other than the classic excuse of, we're the government we can do whatever we want an you can't do anything about it. Murder was murder no matter who did it, A friend with pointed ears had said that once.
Truth being about her though, there were people out there that could crush her with a blink of an eye, Dr.Fate was one of those people. Q hoped that she would never have to be on the receiving end of his powers
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Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2011 3:30:54 GMT -5
Considering the direction that the man's surface thoughts take, Phoebe's silent for a moment before she comments, What we're doing really bothers you, doesn't it? That's one thing she can't quite understand. While she's pretty much sitting on the fence when it comes to whether or not she believes that he's a 'bad guy' at this point, she does believe that his motivations are sound.
But if so, he should be applauding their efforts - they've caught so many criminals. Perhaps not so many of the bigger names, but she knows that they're getting close to several. That meeting that she ought to be paying more attention to is actually concerning some of it. So why is he so certain that it will end in disaster? How can he be when Agent Tiff is so certain that it will be a perfect success? It makes no sense!
But for Phoebe's part, she's aware that there must be people stronger than her out there. She just knows that they are very few in number, and she's never actually met any of them. But that's still only when it comes to the raw strength of her power: she has many other weaknesses and vulnerabilities that even the unpowered may find a way past if they're clever enough. Still, the fact remains that she's not exaggerating even slightly when she talks so matter-of-factly about being strong. Though perhaps what she really doesn't appreciate is that an entity like the US government has no business using her, even if she does largely enjoy what she does.
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Post by question on Aug 15, 2011 12:53:21 GMT -5
Yeah He thought back to the things he saw on the docks, the first night the shipments weren't delivered. Lines of vessels guarding the ports. So many people are going to die, people who have done nothing wrong, He slammed his fist into the floor, An all because Some prick thinks its right to cut off an entire city from the rest of the world, Gangs will get control of what is left, people will kill each other over the simplest of things. Law dissolves, Anarchy erupts, city tears itself apart. Question was beyond bothered about what was going to eventually happen in the next few months if this wasn't stopped.
I would rather be an enemy of the state then work along side these people. essentially he got his wish. He was already just that. An for them to to use you? its more then appalling.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2011 18:33:49 GMT -5
As he goes more into depth on what he foresees happening within Gotham, Phoebe wishes that there was at least a hint of a lie in them somewhere so that she could dismiss them, but no such luck. Given that she knows that there's no fooling her ability to detect such things, it might have been enough to win her over entirely, except That's definitely not what Agent Tiff and Agent Stevens think will happen. Not that she's read the man's thoughts much when he's thinking more in depth about his plans, but she knows that he believes in nothing short of a bright future for not just Gotham but the rest of the country. And she's listening in on Agent Stevens' thoughts almost literally all of the time and the woman certainly hasn't had a stray thought about anything like that. Still, that's really all she can say in the face of this masked man's predictions.
The rest of his thoughts trouble her a little, and she feels the need to defend herself. Hey, they don't ask me to do anything I don't want to do,[/color][/i] she replies, not reflecting on the fact that her desire to do something is often largely based on wanting to please them - she wants to do it because they asked her to, And they've taken care of me and helped me train my powers since before I can remember. Why shouldn't I help?[/color][/i]
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Post by question on Aug 15, 2011 19:57:14 GMT -5
what do you do when you run out of food? you won't because your helping the people that are denying the simplest of needs, food, water, turning this place into a hell on earth. They see a bright end because thats what they want, not what will happen, Or they are telling you that so you will be comfortable with your actions. A society cannot exist with out a balance of sides. Thus is why a utopia always falls. He grew a bit more frustrated with each word. an being unable to do a damn thing about it only caused more problems.
Because its not your place! your a child, your not supposed to be waging a war.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2011 23:41:39 GMT -5
The people in the city won't run out of food - we're bringing it in. I'd know - I'm the one that checks it for stowaways. That's how I caught the Ventriloquist, she corrects, and it's very easy to tell that she's quite pleased with herself for that one - that they'd nearly lost an agent in the process is still very much on her mind, but nevertheless she's very happy that she was able to be involved in capturing one of the bigger names. And she's also glad to be able to say something that contradicts the predictions of gloom and doom. Even if it does nothing to negate some of the other things that he said.
The last part makes her annoyed, however, and she shoots back, This isn't a war, and what does my age have to do with it?[/color][/i]
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Post by question on Aug 15, 2011 23:55:01 GMT -5
Its fast to becoming one, keeping mere here will only ignite tension between two factions, factions that used to help one another, An as for the food, kid think about this, why would a stowaway want to get into a city, Those supples were being sent out. I've seen the shipping manifests. Everything is being sent back to its shipper or to other cities, Medical supples, food, Good people Will die because of this. I've seen this before in other countries. I've seen this government use this tactic on other countries. An there people have to steal to survive. A key point in the case that sometimes the right things are wrong, but would you steal food if it meant life or death?
Her contradictions are just hopeful blinded optimism, as where Question is a realist, knowing that things will go to hell in the blink of an eye when the right conditions present themselves. Light cannot exist with out the dark, it was a fine balance that must be maintained not forced. Forcing it meant that things would only get worse. Gotham would not be able to recover, its needs would not be able to be meet.
An when it all falls in on itself, the government won't admit failure, it would be covered up as some nightmare. An fade into mystery.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 16, 2011 0:21:47 GMT -5
This is one point that Phoebe is certain of, so she repeats it again, No, you're wrong: they were going in I saw them come to the checkpoint, I looked through them for stowaways, I saw them drive into the city. Well, except for the one that the Ventriloquist was in - that one turned out to be full of weapons. I don't know why he was going in - he didn't think about that while I was catching him. I just know that he tried. And that the other trucks did go in. Knowing that is a part of my job. We're not stupid like those people in other countries - we know that people need food.[/color][/i] She'd roll her eyes if he could see it. Maybe that's why his predictions are so different from Agent Tiff's - if he thinks they're going to starve everyone, then of course what they're doing won't work.
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Post by question on Aug 16, 2011 0:30:55 GMT -5
your so blind, He knew that she was just a child, that she didn't get to know what was being pulled into the city, what was to say that it was all weapons. He had seen with his own eyes that medical supples were being denied from the city. an what good was that going to do any one?
It was nothing but a moot point now trying to argue war tactics with a kid. He knew how the government worked, he had infiltrated militarily operations before maybe none as gand as this but it was still shady business none the less.
If only you could see it from the other side of the cage
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