Comic 1148 - Answer Edison
Posted on 17th Dec 2018, 9:58 PM
in Like a Bullet from Behind
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Author Notes:
What Thale's doing is wrong... but he's not the first to commandeer an insane amount of power and use it to hurt people. That's... kind of the history of the world. Poor people, unusual people, lab-grown people--everyone's used and abused by the elite and powerful. You... you became a nurse in the first place because you wanted to make a difference. You could have worked in the upper tiers, but you thought people further down the city would need it more. You tried to make a difference, as much as you could, with what little you could do.
...You can do a lot more now.
You can change the world in far more notable ways than you ever could then, but you haven't changed. Your mentality hasn't changed, your goals, your outlook. You still just want to make a difference--you want to give the suffering a chance to be happy. You want to right wrongs, and make up for the unfairness that is... well, everything.
You understand where Edison's coming from. You've experienced loss, you've had people close to you taken, and you've felt that anger. You don't blame her for that... and you know there's more to her than just a person that tried to hurt you. She was manipulated into trying to kill you, it's not her fault.
You just want to do whatever you can, as much as possible, to make it right--for her, and her sisters. All of them suffered undeservedly. You have to at least try to correct that, at least make an attempt to make up for what was done. You just want everyone--even ghosts--to have a chance to be happy. You just want the world to be better, and if you have to do that one person at a time, then so be it. You can afford to do that now.
Edison stares at the floor.
She's quiet for a very long time.
"I... I'm..." She pauses, swallowing, fidgeting with her hands as she keeps her gaze lowered. "I'm sorry. I'm... s-sorry I tried to kill you, I..."
Her voice cracks. "I thought they killed Faraday, and... and they said they were sorry, but if they were sorry, why..."
A tear rolls down Edison's cheek. "Why did they do it...? I didn't... I didn't understand..."
Slowly, she leans her forehead against the glass. "I thought no one cared."
"The scientist did it to save his family," Faraday replies, approaching the glass. "They would've brought me back, but they didn't know how. The scientists all thought I was dead, too."
Tesla moves closer, as well. "Mine and... and C-Caius, and Dr. Finch, and everyone, th-they f... figured it out. They didn't have to help, but they did!"
"I just..." Edison can barely get the words out, quietly sobbing against the glass. "I thought everyone was liars, I thought... I thought no one cared, I didn't...
I didn't know."
Might take some time, since we have to call in Michelle or Caius (or hey, both) have them load the ghost girls into the tube and then connect the tube to the chamber one at a time, and then when they wanna come back out, they'll also have to crawl into the tube and then out one at a time
That'll take a while, but it's pretty safe?
The alternative is putting all of our trust into Edison and releasing her, hoping she's not just like acting or something
For that, let's just get Fuse and Michelle+ghostgun into this room. That would definitely be faster
I *do* think it's a good idea for her to stay in her room for a while when we can't supervise her-- we can give her plenty of activities to do, though, so she doesn't feel bored or alone-- and we can work on building trust so that she can come out unsupervised soon.
Thank her for apologizing, and say we forgive her. It takes a *lot* of strength and maturity to apologize, and we really appreciate that.
We understand that Edison has been through a *lot.* It's perfectly understandable that she was angry and sad. We would be angry too! We ARE angry a lot of the time when the people close to us are hurt. The scientists may not have showed it because they were afraid, but we bet they were probably angry too, under all that fear, that they and the people close to them were being threatened.
Edison doesn't have to be ashamed of her feelings, but from now on, we WOULD like to help her learn ways of expressing how she feels that would be less hurtful to people, and would make it easier for her to learn how others are thinking. We can do activities together sometimes, maybe draw pictures or make crafts or play pretend, and we can talk about things. If she ever needs anything or wants to talk about anything, she can tell us. Even if we have to be gone sometimes, we'll try to be there for her as much as possible, and make sure that there's someone who's able to talk to her when we're not.
If she can go back to her initial mischievous mode and forget about murdering everyone around her, I'm all for letting her out.
I don't think it will be good to ask her to come out.
Asking her to crawl into the container, even just for a short while, could be bad, as it could be seen as duplicitous.
Also, I'm not a 100% convinced yet that she is sincere, and in the chance she isn't, I don't want her outside.
We should still be very supportive and forgiving though.