Where I come from, Jing Yuan is the leader of an entire ship's worth of people. He protects them, and they are dependent on him. Under his command, they do not suffer slavery or exposure to combat, and they prosper. He's an excellent leader, and though sometimes he falters like any man would, his people - my people - are safe because of him.
Nobody lives forever. But this was a great tragedy.
[you still broke our hearts anyway even if you didn't force omo to play]
Yes, it sounds as though it was. [...] If you will forgive my saying so... I did not know him well, but he did not strike me as one who would do something like this.
[murder charlie, that is.]
Is it possible that there is something about this "Heaven" that has... affected him, somehow?
...if he would never do this, then what is it about this place that made him, I wonder?
[she frowns, staring out at the water and then looking up at the stars.]
He did not seem like himself toward the end of the trial. I know it is presumptuous for me to say when I have only known him for a short time, but that is my observation of him. ...I know that hearing that will not change how things turned out, but I hope it helps you to know that there are many of us who agree with you, that this did not seem like something he would have chosen.
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waner pauses a few paces away from him.]
...Jiaoqiu?
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Hello, Su Waner.
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...for what it is worth, I do wish that had ended differently.
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You don't need to worry about me, if you are. I'm alright.
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...would you truly have been content with it had you managed to sway the votes to yourself?
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...because he is a general?
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He is the General. You all underestimate how vital he is to the functioning of the Xianzhou Alliance.
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What is it that he does for the Alliance...?
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Where I come from, Jing Yuan is the leader of an entire ship's worth of people. He protects them, and they are dependent on him. Under his command, they do not suffer slavery or exposure to combat, and they prosper. He's an excellent leader, and though sometimes he falters like any man would, his people - my people - are safe because of him.
Nobody lives forever. But this was a great tragedy.
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Yes, it sounds as though it was. [...] If you will forgive my saying so... I did not know him well, but he did not strike me as one who would do something like this.
[murder charlie, that is.]
Is it possible that there is something about this "Heaven" that has... affected him, somehow?
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No. He would never do this.
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Many have brought this theory to me. He died wrong, perhaps.
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[she frowns, staring out at the water and then looking up at the stars.]
He did not seem like himself toward the end of the trial. I know it is presumptuous for me to say when I have only known him for a short time, but that is my observation of him. ...I know that hearing that will not change how things turned out, but I hope it helps you to know that there are many of us who agree with you, that this did not seem like something he would have chosen.
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All that I want is for people to understand that he was a good man. His legacy doesn't deserve to be tarnished.
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[her voice trails off as she remembers dan trying to throw a dart at jing yuan after the results were revealed]
...most of us do understand that.