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[majorum_pride]

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I'm currently without a warden. We've been separated. [To the point.] That particular Doctor is still here. [So no one panics and thinks they've been left.]

[A pause.] This may be an unusual question, but for those of you that had friends- [He's assuming some people here will deny ever having any association with the word,

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private

[lifeafterhope]

Someone you'd break your own rules for.

A lot of people here are too casual with that.

private

[majorum_pride]

What people have you done that for?

private

[lifeafterhope]

My father and the men who died with him.

private

[majorum_pride]

I'm not sure how far I would have bent my personal rules for Dylan. Tolerate his to an extent, yes. Tolerate his pointed ignorance to make his rules always seem to work? No.

I don't know that he would have bent his rules for me. He just informed me one day there was no person he trusted more, or would rather have at his side. [This after the Nietzschean plotting had begun, too.]

What are your own rules, out of curiosity?

private

[lifeafterhope]

That the cause - the people - should come before anything else.

[A long pause, then, flatly:] I let myself put revenge first, and no one stopped me from doing it.

private

[majorum_pride]

[He feels sorry for her. He does regret killing Tyr sometimes, because he did understand. And he hated where he went with it. He stopped that Tyr from becoming, though, what another Tyr would. One so consumed with revenge he'd threaten the known worlds for all of the power he could muster.

Another Nietzschean who stared into the abyss.]

It looks back. The abyss. That much is true. When you stare into it. But the cause, the general cause. No one will ever be able to convince me that it was wrong. Not after what I've seen.

private

[lifeafterhope]

Or me of mine, even if I... looked past it once.

You can trust an ally, enjoy their company, fight and kill for them, all of what people are saying makes a friend. But I think you'd find little argument if you said that friendship and alliance aren't the same.

Re: private

[majorum_pride]

Your idea has made me the most sense. I have difficulty subscribing to the otherworldly nature of the connection. I know there's steadfast reasoning behind it psychologically an in our DNA, just not where the line is drawn.

But there are some people I relent on my ideals around. I don't give them up, but I find it unnecessary to be commanding with them.

private

[lifeafterhope]

Yes.

I don't think the actual breaking or bending is what marks it, only that the possibility for it is there.