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...Dusk is tempted in the sense that it'd be nice to have someone around that she'd consider morally neutral to kill and therefore doesn't have to be super careful about. I'm not sure she goes for it, though.

Kyrian's response to that is that if someone is going to kill him, would they please deal with his body in an aesthetically pleasing manner.

Probably irrelevant, sorry, but if Nick has to die he wants it to either be a blaze of glory, or somewhere someone might find his body tens of thousands of years later and NOT immediately.

MaggieoftheOwls wrote:Kyrian's response to that is that if someone is going to kill him, would they please deal with his body in an aesthetically pleasing manner.

Yup, I caught that, and that's actually why Sith Dusk would consider him neutral to kill - it isn't at all about him being a bad person, it's about what his own preferences are. (Her advice to the Lurker visiting ToR would similarly be 'you really shouldn't bother exiling the Sith, they'd rather just die in battle'. Which Lurker would ignore outright.)

What if Lurker encountered an individual Sith who made that preference explicit, at least for them?

Depends on context, and I'm having trouble imagining it. For most Sith I expect they'd try to goad her into doing it, which definitely doesn't work even if she sees that it's because they'd rather die.

MaggieoftheOwls wrote:...Both Bonesaw and Spider were in bad places, mentally. Bonesaw was abducted from her parents by a mass-murderer and indoctrinated, and Spider...well, was a Steven in a bad place. Kyrian isn't doing what he does because he's upset or because he has no other choice; he does it for sheer love of art and joy at beauty.

Well, Bonesaw may have a horrible origin story but by the time canon rolls about she's also doing it for sheer love of (her) art.

At least to a certain extent, but like, remember that thing in the Demon Cam thread where she started crying when she was in her new body and explicitly stated that she wouldn't have done in her old body--I do think it's safe to say she's gotten attached to murder-as-art but by itself that doesn't make her okay, and as long as she's manipulating her visible emotions according to what she chooses to project rather than what she's feeling...

Things I want:
Darth Isabella
Jinx in Pact
My own effing Sci Fi setting, once I can manage to figure out what I want to keep from the various ones I've read.

People should do Pact glowfic! I'll help with setting questions if it makes there be more of it.