Silence hung in the air for a few long seconds.
“Yeah,” Ballistic said. “If it’s monsters like that? I think I could.”
Sundancer hesitated. She hugged her arms against her body, lips pursed.
It’s kind of interesting how this works. Like, this natural hesitation to take a life that most people have in them. I absolutely don’t think I could do it – I literally wouldn’t hurt a fly – but at the same time the logical, detached side of me is going “these guys deserve no hesitation, killing them would be a clear benefit to the world”.
By the way, neither of these two would make particularly pretty corpses out of their enemies.
“Mars,” Trickster said, his voice quiet, “You’ve killed before.”
Mars is a neat nickname. It kind of fits with her cape name, considering Mars is a planet, one of the bodies that dance around the sun.
Also, Trickster, might that not be why she’s hesitating?
“Accidentally.”
Exactly.
I thought back to her hesitation to use her power, back when we’d fought Oni Lee and Lung together.
Yeah, I remember she talked about her power causing a lot of collateral damage and being hard not to kill with.
“These guys aren’t bystanders, they’re not people,” Ballistic said. “They don’t even resemble people. They’re freaks, monsters. The worst this planet has to offer.”
On one hand, he ain’t wrong.
On another, he ain’t right. We have seen humanizing traits from a few of the Nine. Mainly Burnscar and Cherish, some from Bonesaw, even a smidgen from Shatterbird. They are people. Extremely fucked up people who should die before they spread more death and suffering, but people.
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