forgivetheinsubordination: (Archangel keeps watch.)
Garrus Vakarian ([personal profile] forgivetheinsubordination) wrote 2015-05-06 09:16 pm (UTC)

[Morals are different in different places for a reason. It sounds too easy. Too slippery. One could use that to say that becoming a predator on Omega is justified. That becoming a murderer here is justified, when it isn't. He has no justification for the neraki they'll slaughter. But Garrus will do it, because he can't let his homeworld be destroyed.]

It's not about making new ones. I don't think.

[His voice is quiet, words slow as he's thinking while talking.]

I'm still holding on to mine. What I will do for the CDC is wrong.

[He's becoming what he hates, and there is no turning back from it.]

But for my world and my people, I'll do it, knowing full well the line I'm crossing. [A beat.] Knowing that each and every one of us could be hit with this again for a whim. Or worse.

[He tilts his head, looking off to the side, studying the purple walls for a moment. What's even more, he knows now for sure that every last one of them is expendable if it proves a point.]

There's no choice, we're stuck, and life won't be great. There can still be moments of good.

[He has people he cares about, he's had moments here he'll treasure for as long as he lives. It's bad... but it's not all bad.]

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