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“It’s fine.  I don’t intend to break the rules.”

“Few do.  Still, I’ve done my duty and informed you.  Tell me about yourself, Jamie.  I know your father is in law enforcement.”

And here I was just thinking “we don’t know much about ‘Jamie’ yet”.

Father in law enforcement, probably inspiring the desire to be a hero, what a classic. 🙂

“He’s a detective, yeah.”

“Does that have anything to do with why you’re here?”

Jamie frowned and looked away.  “Yeah.”

Yep.

“Tell me.”

“A year ago… well, it all started two years ago.  There were two criminals called Ramrod and Fleece.  The local heroes brought them into custody, partially because of my dad’s work in tracking the pair down.

Oh! I guess she wants to protect her dad too.

Ramrod sounds familiar. Have I heard that name before?

Ah yes, he’s in the Birdcage. Amusingly, it sounded familiar last time I heard the name too. :p

So did Fleece get away?

Three strikes act applied to Fleece, and Ramrod was in for murder with intent.  They put them in special cells, got them a court date, and everything was normal.  My dad worked to gather the evidence, made some deals with informants to testify anonymously, and everything.  The court process takes a lot longer than it does on TV.”

It really does. I remember back when Anders Behring Breivik’s court process was being aired on TV, that was so slow. And that was just the actual court part, not the work involved in preparing things for it.

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“Okay.”  How long had it been since she slept?  I was having trouble following her train of thought.

Kinda like other people might feel about me when I talk about Homestuck shirts and a not too many sentences later I’m going on about the narrative roles of Olaf versus Jar-Jar Binks.

“So I think it should mean something extra, something special, when I’m telling you to hurt them.  Fuck them up.  Hurt them as much as you think they deserve, then double that.  Triple it, just- just make them-”

Yep, we’ve got a shaken pacifist over here.

This reminds me of the Norwegian people’s reaction – including mine – to the Utøya attacks, which I have talked about before on the blog. It really shook us to the core, and we had lots of people advocating the death sentence for Anders Behring Breivik (though I don’t think that was ever really a legal option for law enforcement – even if they had reinstated the death sentence as a reaction to his crimes, I don’t think they could use it for a crime committed before it was reinstated without some seriously good reasons), or otherwise harder punishments than we normally allow.

I seriously would not blame someone for murdering him the second he came out of prison, if he ever did.

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How was a city like Brockton Bay supposed to pay its respects to all the heroes, villains and miscellaneous others that died to protect it?  Until about five years ago, the answer had been a funeral.

Makes sense… so what replaced it?

Also, does Taylor not know the term “rogue” for non-hero/villain parahumans? I don’t think she used it to describe Parian either – if I remember correctly, she just said that she wasn’t a hero or villain. I’ll have to go check.

Ah, never mind, she did both:

“Parian.  She was local, and she wasn’t hero or villain.  A rogue, who only used her powers for business or entertainment.”

It really hadn’t worked out.

Oh. I suppose the sheer amount of grieving people from either side of the hero-villain spectrum, as well as the amount of space needed to bury all the corpses, not to mention the costs of the whole thing on top of repairs… could become troublesome.

On the surface, it was a great idea, had made for an amazing scene.  Grand speeches about great moments of true selflessness from even despicable villains, good guys doing the most heroic of sacrifices.

Oh, absolutely. It sounds great in theory.

Except problems started to stack up.  Could the people in charge of the event really let someone stand up and give a eulogy for someone like Kaiser?  If they did, you earned the wrath of the dozens or hundreds of people who’d had their lives changed for the worse by Empire Eighty-Eight.

…good point.

While I’m not the type to get infuriated by this kind of thing, I wouldn’t exactly be happy with some sort of official endorsement of a eulogy for Anders Behring Breivik either.

For those who don’t remember, that’s not an ABB gag. I’m talking about the most hated man in Norway, a man who singlehandedly killed 77 people in one day, most of them teens. I previously brought him up during 1.4 (here and here) and in 2.3.