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[Four months. January would mark her fourth month in this place and Arturia is very, very confused. This is a place where special abilities are not only accepted, but commonplace, and there's little chance of the Grail War coming here. She always hated keeping secrets back home, but had understood the why of it. It bothered her, but she had accepted this as a fact of life.

Even more than that, Shinji weighs on her mind. Shinji had been a jerk, there was no question about that. The girls who followed him around were the type of teenage girl who seemed to think that sort of person was a real man. Arturia knew better than that just from spending so much time with Sakura. The only reason Arturia had not tried beating him to a pulp for what he did to his sister had been due to Sakura asking her to leave him be and stay out of it. It angered her to just stand by and yet....

...yet when she gets back home, she has every intention of going to the Matou home and telling Sakura in person that her brother is dead. Arturia has no idea how to tell her and the thought of lying to Sakura and creating a cover story leaves her slightly ill whenever she thinks of it since, in the end, Arturia feels like she is the one responsible. Archer may have put the bullet through Shinji's brain, but he had been Arturia's Servant.

There had to have been an alternative. There had to be.

Once she figures out how to post anonymously on the Network, she does so.]

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When is it acceptable to kill someone?

For that matter, when would you say it is acceptable to keep secrets.?

(ooc: Threadjacking is a-okay and encouraged)

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Exactly.

If it's the first, then just do it if you think it's the right thing to do and don't worry about it. If it's the second then stop worrying about it because they're dead and agonizing over it won't do a damn thing.

And what am I supposed to tell their family?

You don't have to tell them anything. They're not involved, so it doesn't matter.

But I'll have to see them every day. Do you honestly expect me to pretend their loved one isn't missing or like I know nothing?

Then tell them if it bothers you that much. Honestly though I don't really get why it would.

I know most people make a big deal out of it, but death, killing, murder - they all happen, especially if you hang around certain groups. People make too much fuss over it, in my opinion.

Otoha, don't be a dick. We talked about this.

They asked for opinions. I'm giving them opinions.

I apologize. I've never killed someone before so I don't know how to handle it.

I grew up killing people. It was my job, and a fact of life.

Was it easy when you first started?

It was. But I didn't know that it wasn't a thing that most people had to do at the time.

So you started at a young age?

Pretty much as soon as I could physically hold a sword they started shoving me towards those kinds of missions. I know it was around the beginning of secondary school.

Don't listen to them.

Murder, the act of killing someone, is nothing that just happens. If you feel responsibility to the ones left behind, then talk to them. If you feel that it's the right thing to do, tell them the truth.

I'll do the best I can, then. Thank you.

It depends how you grew up, where you grew up, how you lived. In the place where I grew up yes, it was a thing that 'just happened'.

Maybe so. But even if it 'just happens' for you, it doesn't for most other people.

Edited 2013-01-07 10:33 (UTC)

I know. But you have to recognize that it does for some people.

And because of that not 'making a fuss' over it is clearly the best solution?

Works for me.

Good for you.

[Riku is just going to roll his eyes and not going to note that it likely won't work for most of the rest of them. Including him.]

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