Using my own words against me when you are choosing acts of violence is not as clever as you think. I spoke those words because violence between Piltover and Zaun killed many of my people and Piltover's as well. The divide between us is great, but offering something that could help Zaun build and gain the infrastructure to be its own entity and stand on its own outside of Piltover was the first step needed towards healing.
The cycle of violence is not one that will ever get decent results. You will never be rid of the infection if you continue to cause wounds.
It might not always be unavoidable, but there are better ways to use one's powers than to cause more harm. All those people you have killed...what do you think they see mutants as because of it?
well, humans in my world invented a shock collar that saps powers. that was *their* solution to the conflict. you know what i was doing before i showed up here? helping out a 17 year old forced to wear one of those collars 24/7. getting electrocuted every time his mutation acts up. forgive me if i dont give a shit about the lives of people who condone shit like that.
[Sylas also... is a danger to the public, if his powers aren't contained. He cannot control them and they cause paranoid hallucinations for everyone around him. Dodger knows this, but it doesn't serve his point, so he's keeping it to himself.]
i don't need humans to like me. i don't need humans to like mutants. i just need them to understand they're sticking their hand in a bear trap by pissing off super-powered beings. that is what the violence is for.
[He stops himself short from the last thought in his head - that humans belong under his heel, that is the proper world order. But he's thinking it, and only keeping it to himself because Viktor is technically human.]
You may think of humans however you like. But I am telling you that violence will never get you the peace nor the rights that your kind, mutants, so desperately want and deserve.
Violence only perpetuates pain and conflict; it does not help bring about a world where you and that young man you are caring for can live in peace.
will it never work or did it just not work for you? history proves me out. violence gets results. if you do it right, you only need it again when people forget what it feels like, and they get fat and lazy again.
[Dodger you don't read history books you do not get to lecture people about this.]
I have seen and experienced all manners of varying timelines, and in none of them does going down this path ever lead to anything good, Dodger. Your drive and desire to help your people are commendable, inspiring even, but if you truly wanted to help them, this is not the way to go about it.
There is no 'right' way of going about instilling fear in people.
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I spoke those words because violence between Piltover and Zaun killed many of my people and Piltover's as well. The divide between us is great, but offering something that could help Zaun build and gain the infrastructure to be its own entity and stand on its own outside of Piltover was the first step needed towards healing.
The cycle of violence is not one that will ever get decent results. You will never be rid of the infection if you continue to cause wounds.
It might not always be unavoidable, but there are better ways to use one's powers than to cause more harm. All those people you have killed...what do you think they see mutants as because of it?
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that was *their* solution to the conflict.
you know what i was doing before i showed up here?
helping out a 17 year old forced to wear one of those collars 24/7.
getting electrocuted every time his mutation acts up.
forgive me if i dont give a shit about the lives of people who condone shit like that.
[Sylas also... is a danger to the public, if his powers aren't contained. He cannot control them and they cause paranoid hallucinations for everyone around him. Dodger knows this, but it doesn't serve his point, so he's keeping it to himself.]
i don't need humans to like me.
i don't need humans to like mutants.
i just need them to understand they're sticking their hand in a bear trap by pissing off super-powered beings.
that is what the violence is for.
[He stops himself short from the last thought in his head - that humans belong under his heel, that is the proper world order. But he's thinking it, and only keeping it to himself because Viktor is technically human.]
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But I am telling you that violence will never get you the peace nor the rights that your kind, mutants, so desperately want and deserve.
Violence only perpetuates pain and conflict; it does not help bring about a world where you and that young man you are caring for can live in peace.
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history proves me out.
violence gets results.
if you do it right, you only need it again when people forget what it feels like, and they get fat and lazy again.
[Dodger you don't read history books you do not get to lecture people about this.]
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There is no 'right' way of going about instilling fear in people.
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it doesn't matter, right?
i'm not going back there.
and if i DO go back, i won't be able to tell you how it turns out.
whatever. we can agree to disagree.
happy birthday, viktor. hopefully it's everything you're hoping for.
[He stops responding after that.]