Deceive Me - Drabble Prompt.

[laurelindorenae]

There are still six open spots at laurelindorenae.livejournal.com/11150.html

For 16beckyb

Pairing: RahlxKahlan
Inspiration:
Scared to Death - HIM
Tonight And The Rest Of My Life - Nina Gordon
Torn - Natalie Imbruglia

Comments

[pristineungift]

I think (and I hope it came out in BfS) that being raised as a Confessor has twisted Kahlan's world view into extremes of right and wrong, black and white. Darken Rahl is bad, therefore everything associated with him is bad. Richard is good, therefore everything associated with him is good.

So though it might be repugnant to effectively erase your own child from the world, ousting DR from power, because him being in power is a BAD THING, is the only acceptable course to Kahlan.

She can't see the shades of grey, and whenever she's confronted with them, she resists (like how she treated Cara in "Broken").

And so, since stopping Darken Rahl is the only GOOD THING, in her mind it overrides the minor detail of ending a child's life.

Just like how she was prepared to sacrifice that young Confessor girl, even though there were only two known Confessors left, in order to save Richard when they could have simply (and in fact needed to) named a new Seeker.

She's fixated on Richard as an ultimate force for good, and so often commits morally ambiguous acts in his defense.