...yeah Jace can scrape himself back together if he gets a hug or something. Even if he goes fully nuclear.
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The thing that struck me is the reactions to the wolfmind, in his view, and the choices that were left to people. This is mostly based on ICly available information, of course, but Jace's love for Claude is totally undiminished by the fact that he came close to voring a teammate. And the difference is that Claude fought, he channeled the wolfmind for as long as he could. The fact that he ultimately failed...Jace doesn't really grudge him that. Part of this is sort of a justification; Jace really likes Claude a lot, and having to associate him with a dead teammate, here and now, would probably just make him shut down for a while. But part of it is the idea that your actions are yours to own. Claude's going kind of overboard with that, but like Shiki, he's not making excuses, and he's facing what he almost did without trying to evade responsibility. (Jace has a Thing about personal responsibility that I may have essayed on tangentially at some point. Comes of being an interplanar mafioso and then...deciding not to be, because there are lines he can't cross.)
But even in Claude's wolfmind memories, even if "not to kill" wasn't a choice left to him, the choice of WHO to kill was...potentially there? Given Claude's bezerker urges, he's well aware that once Claude was given a target, it'd be hard to resist -- but someone gave him a target. So in that sense someone used Claude against his team. (Which would normally kick the genocide meter up a notch or two, but he's sort of desensitized right now. Too much horrible.)
Whiiiich brings us to the other side of the personal responsibility coin. Jace knows Claude fought the wolf the first night, and quite a few other teams didn't eat anyone -- but Hydra seemed perfectly happy to vore his teammate. And then do so again on the second night. And the question they asked about Mitani made it seem like they did, in fact, pick Lightning as a target deliberately. And, almost more importantly, they haven't come up to Canis to own their sins, even though Canis seems to be the only team they attacked. Add that to the fact that they went bezerk when someone ate one of THEIR teammates...no, he doesn't have a good impression at all.
(Mind, he didn't exactly have a great impression of that team in the first place, and this does bias his judgement a lot; if Claude had vored one of his teammates, he'd probably just curl up into a ball and cry on him, rather than go vengeful, or want to. Which is another essay I may have written already but basically, he's experienced losing all his friends in his very first memory and never wants to go through that again. Without pre-existing ties to Hydra, there's nothing to stop him judging them, basically. He also only really judges the players in the game; he's got nothing against anyone else on Hydra.)
But the thread with Claude is calming and centering him a bit, and Squall and I have a thing planned that will solidify his resolve to step back from the brink even further. So it's not that he's going to go crazy and execute someone unless they provoke him (and, admittedly, a threat that could turn lethal is enough at this point.) But the difference is the actions after, and the apparent actions during -- did they even try to fight? Did they target him deliberately? -- which is why he just wants to hug Claude and can sort of see forgiving Shiki eventually, and nnnot so much for Hydra.
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The thing that struck me is the reactions to the wolfmind, in his view, and the choices that were left to people. This is mostly based on ICly available information, of course, but Jace's love for Claude is totally undiminished by the fact that he came close to voring a teammate. And the difference is that Claude fought, he channeled the wolfmind for as long as he could. The fact that he ultimately failed...Jace doesn't really grudge him that. Part of this is sort of a justification; Jace really likes Claude a lot, and having to associate him with a dead teammate, here and now, would probably just make him shut down for a while. But part of it is the idea that your actions are yours to own. Claude's going kind of overboard with that, but like Shiki, he's not making excuses, and he's facing what he almost did without trying to evade responsibility. (Jace has a Thing about personal responsibility that I may have essayed on tangentially at some point. Comes of being an interplanar mafioso and then...deciding not to be, because there are lines he can't cross.)
But even in Claude's wolfmind memories, even if "not to kill" wasn't a choice left to him, the choice of WHO to kill was...potentially there? Given Claude's bezerker urges, he's well aware that once Claude was given a target, it'd be hard to resist -- but someone gave him a target. So in that sense someone used Claude against his team. (Which would normally kick the genocide meter up a notch or two, but he's sort of desensitized right now. Too much horrible.)
Whiiiich brings us to the other side of the personal responsibility coin. Jace knows Claude fought the wolf the first night, and quite a few other teams didn't eat anyone -- but Hydra seemed perfectly happy to vore his teammate. And then do so again on the second night. And the question they asked about Mitani made it seem like they did, in fact, pick Lightning as a target deliberately. And, almost more importantly, they haven't come up to Canis to own their sins, even though Canis seems to be the only team they attacked. Add that to the fact that they went bezerk when someone ate one of THEIR teammates...no, he doesn't have a good impression at all.
(Mind, he didn't exactly have a great impression of that team in the first place, and this does bias his judgement a lot; if Claude had vored one of his teammates, he'd probably just curl up into a ball and cry on him, rather than go vengeful, or want to. Which is another essay I may have written already but basically, he's experienced losing all his friends in his very first memory and never wants to go through that again. Without pre-existing ties to Hydra, there's nothing to stop him judging them, basically. He also only really judges the players in the game; he's got nothing against anyone else on Hydra.)
But the thread with Claude is calming and centering him a bit, and Squall and I have a thing planned that will solidify his resolve to step back from the brink even further. So it's not that he's going to go crazy and execute someone unless they provoke him (and, admittedly, a threat that could turn lethal is enough at this point.) But the difference is the actions after, and the apparent actions during -- did they even try to fight? Did they target him deliberately? -- which is why he just wants to hug Claude and can sort of see forgiving Shiki eventually, and nnnot so much for Hydra.
SO I HAVE RAMBLED DID IT MAKE SENSE.