007 // blink and you'll miss a revolution

[serpentis]

Who: Dorian!
Broadcast: Fleet-wide!
Action: On the Three Twins
When: 5/26, night

Well, now that we've all gotten our fill of rampant debauchery, I thought I might pose a little question to you, Fleet. A more...somber question.

[Dorian looks considering for a moment, and when he speaks, he talks with his hands as much as his mouth. It seems like a subject he's certainly into, that's for sure.]

What would you do if, for example, you disagreed with the politics of your home? What measures would you go to? At what cost would you ensure that things were righted, were changed for the better?

[He raises a brow.]

Would you kill for it? Would you bring about chaos and disarray because the end would justify those means, as it were? How many deaths can be justified by a revolutionary change? 10? 100? Thousands? If it were for the greater good, how many lives could you sacrifice?

[He brings the hand back to his chin, thinking.]

Color me curious. What are your politics there?

Comments

[serpentis]

Would it be preferred? I was, for the record, thinking of Tevinter and how best to reform it.

[It just happened that he could phrase it to sound startlingly like what he understood happened in Kirkwall. Not that Dorian was ever a man to double-speak or talk out of both side of his mouth, as it were.]

[forcemageure]

What are you, bored?

[serpentis]

If I said yes, would you come and entertain me for a few hours? I wouldn't object to such charming company.

[forcemageure]

Tell you what. You spend every drop of waking energy you have and then some trying to change things without hurting anyone, for as long as you can before you get so bloody desperate all you can see is corners, and see what that does for you. Should occupy you for about seven years, give or take.

[ Hawke does not think Dorian 'understands' anything about what happened in Kirkwall. It's not a point of hostility, he just ...wasn't there. ]