hadriel | 014 [Video] /dated to a few hours after Yusuke's anon post

[Lance looks a little over life at the moment, which most of his friends probably recognize as his standard look when not being purposefully professional. He's not bothering with the latter right now, both because he's a bit annoyed and because he thinks it would be pointless, so instead everyone gets normal, slightly bitchy Lance.]

Okay, I wish I could say that I can't believe I have to remind people of this, but vigilante justice is not exactly the best idea here. Not only is it morally wrong to just declare yourself to have the authority to decide who is and isn't deserving of 'justice', but it's logically wrong too; you're just going to cause problems, not solve them.

I'm not saying not to intervene when something's actively happening, but going after someone days or weeks later is just starting the whole process of retaliation all over again. So can everyone just take their egos down a notch and, if they're concerned about someone being an active threat or something, work on coming up with some sort of solution that isn't going to make things worse as soon as it's done?

[This is not the first time he's had to go into this discussion while here--or at home--and so that's why he's being extra short about it. He's also not just talking about the recent incident, it's simply what prompted him to say something this time.]

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[He's definitely appreciating being able to have a reasonable conversation here, and isn't pleased to hear about this incident. One one hand, at least it's something more recent than the last thing Lance knew about, so makes the vigilante's actions somewhat less ridiculous, but that isn't even slightly worth someone being hurt.]

I'm sorry that happened. Does anyone else know about this?

My roommates, since it was kind of impossible to hide it from them, and a couple friends. I didn't want to make a big public thing out of it, partially because I wanted to avoid a situation like this. I don't know if that was the wrong move or not, but I wouldn't have wanted anyone to go after her and get hurt because of what happened to me, you know?

I understand, and ultimately it's your choice whether you tell anyone or not; there isn't a wrong or a right decision here.

[There would've been good and bad things about making it public knowledge, after all, and Lance isn't big on telling victims that they shouldn't handle a situation in the way that makes them most comfortable as long as it isn't hurting them.]

Do you think anyone you know might've been the person who went after her?

[Because that could be an explanation, or someone could just be acting on a completely unrelated incident.]

[Peter's used to getting hurt and just trucking along like nothing happened, so he'd kind of just put the whole thing behind him. He was starting to think he should have handled it differently, but there wasn't much he could do about it now.]

That was my thought at first just because of the timing and stuff, but nobody I know is strong enough to beat her like that. At least not as far as I'm aware? I know a lot of people around here have crazy powers and abilities, but I don't know anyone who can encase a person in ice or anything.

It's possible someone you know is just hiding their powers; some people do that here, for a lot of reasons. It's also possible this has nothing to do with your encounter with her at all.

It would be good to know if this person acted due to a recent threat or not, but unless we find out who they are I don't think we're going to know for sure.

It's not too weird that someone would hide something like that, I guess. I don't really feel like this thing had anything to do with what happened with me, but I'll see if anyone I know has any more information. It seems like whoever it was that did this thought they were doing some kind of good deed, I guess, and I'd hate for them to get hurt because of it.

Thanks; please let me know if you find anything out. If you don't want to identify anyone or anything like that it's okay, I just want to figure out if this is retaliation for a recent event or what happened when she first arrived.

I don't want anyone to get hurt either; I'm sure whoever it was did think they were doing the right thing, but I hope they'll reconsider their actions in the future.

Sure, I'll keep you posted.

I'm hoping that the most this will result in is a learning experience? Probably best to prepare for the worst case scenario, though.

'Hope for the best and prepare for the worst is the saying', I think.

Yeah, that one. Can't say I have any idea how to prepare for the fallout from something like this, though.

Weird as it is for me to say, there are people here who deal with this sort of thing at home, so fortunately they know how to handle it if things do go badly. Hopefully, though, we'll be able to avoid that.

Yeah, I'm not gonna try not to worry too much. I mean even if she does blow us all up, I guess we won't stay blown up.

I can't tell if that's too optimistic a way of looking at it or not, but you're not wrong.

Be careful, okay? I'll let you know if I find out anything particularly important or if plans change.

Don't get me wrong, I definitely don't want her blowing anyone up. It's just not the end of the world here.

I'll be careful, for sure. Thanks man, I'll keep in touch too.

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