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Well yes, of course. That's what you do. Just who the hell do you think she is?
That is a taunt and you should take it back.
You're supposed to be equals, you know. Ah, based on later text, I take that back. The contempt is entirely appropriate.
I think technically this would have counted as consent, and I'm ready to jump up and down with rage shouting, "NEVER GIVE UP! NEVER SURRENDER!"
NEVER GIVE UP! NEVER SURRENDER! ONLY IN DEATH DOES DUTY END!
Honestly? She was at war. She fought the enemy, subject to deep uncertainty, and did her best to save her family. She was flawed, but everyone is. She did what she had to.
And even when she had that one last moment of cowardice, even that was from duty.
I've been thinking about the issue of what Celestia would do about recalcitrant camps, and it seems your thoughts echo mine...
I wish you had shown that, honestly. And Eliza's adventures in Seattle, and escape from there. But... I can also understand two possible reasons why all of this was glossed over. One, Eliza is not the most fun character to be around - she's a stubborn emo murderer with a temper - and two, I bet you are pretty weary of writing by now. It's a lot of words! I get that. Believe me, I do.
But... I can't help but feel that we are missing about six chapters, you know?
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I think... if what happened in Seattle was worse, all that would do is just make her even less sympathetic and kill even harder the attempted redeption narrative at the end.
Eliza was human, with all the flaws and quirks that define humanity. Ultimately humans are just clever animals as well. I've read some of the comments condemning Eliza and claiming that they'd never cross that line, yet I would bet good money that anyone who HAS crossed that line once thought they were somehow better as well. We never know how we will react in a high stress situation until we are suddenly thrust into one. We can make all the claims we want but when the die are cast, you find out what you are really made of. I can only hope that I react even remotely as well as Eliza did in a similar situation.
So yeah, I'd forgive her too after that show of remorse.
As for redemption and uploading, I guess that's for God and CelesAI to fight over. Personally I've believed that I've been living in a simulation the equivalent of government housing for years now and that most of the people I meet in person these days are just clever AI with only a few other 'real' people living here nearby. Uploading doesn't seem so scary to me. Especially if you realize that we are different people from one moment to the next. I'm not the person I was ten years ago, physically, intellectually, or emotionally. Hell, I'm not even the same person I was 10 minutes ago. So the idea of going to sleep and waking up as a post-human doesn't really phase me. Now the pony thing is a completely different kettle of metaphors...
noooooooooooooooooo, never give in ;-;
In the immortal words of C.S. Lewis, "Of all the tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under the omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber barons cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.”
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Or as one might say, "There but for the grace of God go I."
I pity Eliza because at the end of the day she went through hell because of religious bullshit. The atrocities of WW2, ignoring all other atrocities through history, prove that there is no god, and yet people still dedicate their lives to this imaginary thing.
The fuck is wrong with this bitch? What did Ralph do deserve hate? HES THE ONLY ONE WHO SAW THE WRITING ON THE WALL SINCE DAY ONE! where most of everyone else selfishly abandoned them to go to equestria, he was the one who always had his family's interests at heart, never once giving an ounce to Celestia unlike Eliza.
YOU DID NOTHING WRONG GODDAMIT!!! THEY ABANDONED YOU!!!!
OH ARE YOU FUCKING KIDDING ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Fuck Eliza, Fuck June, Fuck Robert, Fuck Thomas, Fuck Gale, Fuck George, Fuck Mike, Fuck all of them.
Ralph my man, you deserved so much better.