I could kill them right now.
The Nine?
It would be so easy. Jack, Bonesaw and Cherish were all in my range. I could drop poisonous spiders on them, sting them each with dozens of bees and wasps in the hopes of provoking anaphylactic shock.
Ohh, she was being literal. She has the ability to kill them, she’s not just expressing a restrained desire to.
Honestly, I think the only one who’s going to stand in Taylor’s way here is herself. And maybe the threat of revenge from other Slaughterhouse members, but I think it’s going to be primarily a part of Taylor’s mind that doesn’t want her to become a killer, even if the people she killed were mass murderers who have killed and would continue to kill tons of innocent people.
That’s already a strenuous argument before you consider the standing order of “kill or the world ends sooner” on Jack Slash in particular.
But there’s another thing too: This brings us right back to Arc 11 and the topic of bystanderism again, because it forces us to ask if Skitter is already a killer. Did she kill that one wounded Merchant, Thomas, by leaving him to die, or does that not count?
I don’t think it quite counts, but it’s still relevant to the argument, and I think Taylor might look at it differently than I do.
It would be easy, and I might save the world by doing it. I’d get revenge for the countless people they’d murdered, for their attacking Tattletale, and maybe even save hundreds of people’s lives by distracting Shatterbird.
And by preventing them from personally killing tons of people later.
As much as I like these villains, when it comes to this moral dilemma, I’m honestly very much in favor of killing them.
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