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likebigboats) wrote2014-10-03 03:01 pm
likebigboats) wrote2014-10-03 03:01 pm
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Memory - Anders act three banters
While Hawke drags party members about Kirkwall on fool hero errands, they keep themselves from getting bored by chattering. In this case, it's the mage Anders, seen previously in a sex-with-magic memory -- he's looking older and has developed a severely annoying hardline stance about mage rights. Isabela is not happy about his need to try and get her to agree with it.
Anders: You're not nearly as selfish as you pretend.
Isabela: Hey! You take that back!
Anders: You had your relic. You were gone. There was no reason for you to come back and face the Qunari.
Isabela: I still don't have a ship. I thought I could get one.
Anders: From a bunch of shipwrecked Qunari?
Isabela: From the Viscount. I just got here late.
Anders: I always knew you had a heart of gold.
Isabela: Shh! Don't tell anyone.
--
Anders: I don't know how you live the way you do, blithely ignoring the consequences of your actions.
Isabela: This is about the Qunari thing, isn't it? I'm not ignoring it. I just recognize that it happened years ago. There's this fantastic thing called "moving on." You should try it sometime.
Anders: Has it occurred to you that Kirkwall is only just recovering from the Qunari attack?
Isabela: And you want me to... what? Flog myself daily? Has it occurred to you that maybe there's no justice in the world? Other than that voice you keep in your head.
--
Anders: There is justice in the world.
Isabela: Is there? You want to free the mages. Let's say you do, but to get there, you kill a bunch of innocent people. What about them? Don't they then deserve justice?
Anders: Yes.
Isabela: And then what? Where does it end? It's like a bar brawl. People are continuously pulled into the fray, and nobody remembers why it started. Justice is an idea. It makes sense in a world of ideas, but not in our world.
--
Anders: I can't believe you're still not taking sides.
Isabela: I told you, I only like to be on top.
Anders: I mean against the templars! You like freedom, right? You hate slavery. Why wouldn't you side with the mages?
Isabela: Maybe I just don't like you.
Anders: You're not nearly as selfish as you pretend.
Isabela: Hey! You take that back!
Anders: You had your relic. You were gone. There was no reason for you to come back and face the Qunari.
Isabela: I still don't have a ship. I thought I could get one.
Anders: From a bunch of shipwrecked Qunari?
Isabela: From the Viscount. I just got here late.
Anders: I always knew you had a heart of gold.
Isabela: Shh! Don't tell anyone.
--
Anders: I don't know how you live the way you do, blithely ignoring the consequences of your actions.
Isabela: This is about the Qunari thing, isn't it? I'm not ignoring it. I just recognize that it happened years ago. There's this fantastic thing called "moving on." You should try it sometime.
Anders: Has it occurred to you that Kirkwall is only just recovering from the Qunari attack?
Isabela: And you want me to... what? Flog myself daily? Has it occurred to you that maybe there's no justice in the world? Other than that voice you keep in your head.
--
Anders: There is justice in the world.
Isabela: Is there? You want to free the mages. Let's say you do, but to get there, you kill a bunch of innocent people. What about them? Don't they then deserve justice?
Anders: Yes.
Isabela: And then what? Where does it end? It's like a bar brawl. People are continuously pulled into the fray, and nobody remembers why it started. Justice is an idea. It makes sense in a world of ideas, but not in our world.
--
Anders: I can't believe you're still not taking sides.
Isabela: I told you, I only like to be on top.
Anders: I mean against the templars! You like freedom, right? You hate slavery. Why wouldn't you side with the mages?
Isabela: Maybe I just don't like you.