Comic Discussion > ALICE GROVE
Alice Grove MCDT - December 2014
ReindeerFlotilla:
--- Quote from: FunkyTuba on 26 Dec 2014, 17:05 ---Right... With now two unexpected and unwelcome visits from the same source, the stronger move as a caretaker is to find the source of these new threats and see if there's anything to be done at a higher level
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Agreed. Gathering information is always a smarter move than violence. If Spock taught us anything, he taught us that.
But it comes at a risk LEJ is a threat to lives and livelihoods (which is to say "lives" again). Alice doesn't need her to find out about the next levels up the chain. She has Ardent. So, the logical question becomes, "is this woman's knowledge worth risking more lives to obtain?"
I'm not advocating killing her--that would be boring* storytelling, at the least. I'm just having fun with the moral quandry LEJ has become. One could argue, for any position, that any choice Alice makes is right and wrong.
* Unless Alice Grove is the origin story of an ancient blood feud between Ardent and Alice
Neko_Ali:
I disagree. Killing Ms Explosion right now would be straight up murder. It would be an execution without trial or even arrest. Initially she had proven to be a threat, willing to cause mass damage and potentially lethal force to get her way. But after she had the fight literally knocked out of her and is laying there in a dazed state, killing her because maybe when she recovers she could do more damage is not morally justified. Now is the time to disarm her if possible and move her to a more secure area. I'm certainly not justifying anything Her Expodiness did looking for Ardent, and she should face repercussions for blowing up the town and scaring, possibly injuring or killing townsfolk and making an attack on the person trying to defuse (literally) the situation. But murder should not be considered a reasonable option.
FunkyTuba:
We've seen showy explosions, and at one point Alice thought LEJ enough of a threat to tell her wards to get to safety, but we haven't seen much actual damage (yet). I'll be interested to see what aftermath there is and how big a threat she really was.
Kugai:
Back to repairing the Wind Turbine - again
BenRG:
ARDENTSIS: "You hit pretty hard."
ALICE: "Well, I was trying to kill you."
ARDENTSIS: "Ditto."
JACK: "Hey, weren't they ready to kill each other five minutes ago?"
ARDENT: "They're Caretakers. It's sort of a bonding ritual with them."
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