mercy meme

[magnitudes]

forced truth meme

1. Post your character(s)
2. People respond to your character with a question

3. Your character must reply, and they must reply honestly
4. ????
5. Have fun. Fun is obligatory. Lack of fun will result in severe repercussions.

Comments

[aojona]

Um, what made you decide to be a cop?

[magnitudes]

My old man's an abusive sadist. Did some real messed up stuff when I was a kid, and I kind of had this deep, boiling bloody anger about people who were meant to uphold the law being bloody awful. Lawyer that hurts people to blow of steam and make himself feel better? Overlooks the law for himself? Wasn't right. I became a cop because I wanted to be on the bloody... frontline of helping people. Being involved with a community of humans and helping them, and trying to keep them safe. That's what I figured the law as meant to be, or— what it could be a tool for, done right.

[aojona]

Oh... I'm sorry that happened to you. My dad used to say people with authority know that they'll usually get away with abusing it. And um-- to be aware, so you can make sure you're helping protect other people. Kind of like what you're saying.

You don't do it anymore, though?

[magnitudes]

Protecting people or police work?

'Cause I thought I was in a new line of work that let me do the first thing without the red tape of the second thing, but... I was kind of wrong.

[aojona]

Uh... police work, I know you still care about protecting people. Which is the more important thing anyway.

[magnitudes]

Between being framed for murder, escaping arrest and becoming a bomb tech for a mercenary corp, I'd say my police career is pretty well shot.