♖ 003.

[summerschild]

Who: Bran Stark and YOU
Broadcast: Fleetwide
Action: The Dusty Moon
When: 9/23

[Just a short broadcast, as this tiny wolf child makes some Serious Contemplations...]

What do you... What makes a person good, do you think? Is it something they can control?

[He can be found out by the stables, getting as close to the horses as he can in his chair, without rolling over their feet. He wishes so hard that he could just climb up and ride one - almost as much as he wishes he could shift into his wolf's skin, and run with the strange fox-dogs out in the desert sand. Today is not a very happy day.]

Comments

[tobeajedi]

It is. [there's a pause as she considers things.] It happens by mistake, all the time--carelessness, or being hotheaded. But if you hurt someone and don't care, or you find a way to tell yourself that it was a good thing... then, that's when you start to be in danger.

[summerschild]

[Oh. Oops.]

... I think I understand. I told someone I enjoyed it, because I wanted to seem strong. But then he got angry with me.

[tobeajedi]

Hm... but you didn't actually? That's not so bad. You just misjudged your friend's feelings.

[summerschild]

I didn't enjoy it, but it was still a bad thing.

[He frowns in thought.]

Is a bad thing still as bad if you didn't like it?

[tobeajedi]

[HM... Vima thinks back to her mother's reluctance to take up Jedi-ing, particularly the bit that involves lightsabers. That's a little tricky because Vima was like, four.]

No, it's not as bad. Not good, but there's a difference between picking up a weapon to protect someone else, and picking it up because you want to use it.

[summerschild]

[That makes perfect sense, and something lights up in his eyes.]

Oh. I understand. If I'd used the guns just because I was excited about using a weapon, and there was no one attacking, that would have been bad?

[tobeajedi]

[Vima laughs a little at the idea of a kid being so bloodthirsty.]

Pretty bad, yeah. I think you'd get your shipmates into a lot of trouble too.