Board Thread:Role Plays/@comment-25924729-20150722084207/@comment-5999656-20160125060944

(Hey GL, I didn't mind before but Platinum would never say "You're hopeless" right off the bat.)

Platinum stepped forward until she was inches from Vert's face, meeting his green eyes with her searing yellow ones burning hate.

"Jacobs, I did not ask for your fucking life story. No one gives a shit about your angsty whining. I asked you how long you plan on delivering your self-appointed justice on hapless citizens."

Vert's self-centered rant had utterly pissed off the young detective-to-be. She did, however, really appreciate Oliver's presence beside her, or else she would have gotten much more personal in her upcoming confrontation.

"Let's look at things by your way of thinking. You were seconds away from filling these citizens of the kingdom with lead. Fortunately, everyone else here was able to stop you before things got that bad. Say we hadn't done that."

Platinum stepped back and unhooked her sabre from her pouch.

"Say you killed somebody. That you committed disproportionate retribution upon an adversary you could have easily overpowered without resorting to deadly force. By your reasoning," Platinum suddenly slid her weapon into sniper mode and pressed it to the side of Vert's head, "I would be completely justified in killing you now in response. Give me a reason why I shouldn't."

"I..."

Platinum cut off his sentence before he could even begin.

"No matter what you say, I will think my reason is superior to yours. Even if your argument has merit, I'll ignore it and send a couple of bullets neatly through your temple. Because I'm right and you're not, and there's nothing you can do about it. Oh, and you'll die! Because the world would be better off without you anyway!"

Platinum collapsed her weapon and returned it to her leg. "Is that not enough? I'll continue. Let's look at it from my perspective."

"You're a vigilante hopping around in the shadows offing orphaned children who steal some food in order to survive. You're good enough to evade capture for a while, and I am tasked with discerning your M.O. Lone wolf, troubled childhood, this is a textbook case. You're good, but not good enough to keep yourself hidden completely as long as you continue to operate. We find you. You get sent to jail for life with the label 'serial killer'. Sound good yet?"

She took a deep breath.

"If you continue on this path, this is the future that eagerly awaits you. You fall to the law that everyone else in law enforcement works to uphold. If your thinking is the opposite of everyone else's, then just maybe there's something wrong with your perspective."

"But!" Platinum tossed her long silver hair and gazed into the distance.

"I don't think that's you. You talk big, but you've done nothing even remotely to the level of sort of 'justice' that you boast of conducting. And that tells me something." The girl strode up and crouched before Vert's frozen form. She pretended to think while scratching some formless designs in the dirt.

"Vert," Platinum began softly. "You're a naive, idealistic child who thinks he can transform the world. If you keep this up, the truth is going to catch up to you, and the longer it takes the harder it'll hit. Like Kreutznauer said, there's no end to evil. But there's an end to you. You're not so special, Vert," Platinum said as she rose slowly. "Do you really think you're the first one who decided that he would become the self-appointed messiah this world deserves? Where do you think the rest of them are? And how much of a difference did their actions make in the end?"

"You talk big, but you're incapable of turning your words into action. You've yet to meet someone who is more cruel and self-aggrandizing than you, lucky, huh? Once you encounter true brutality, maybe you'll reevaluate your worldview. So far the good-hearted and honest people you know have been unsuccessful at changing you."

"What I'm saying, basically, is that you need to see what it feels like to not have privilege. You're spoiled and sheltered, and there are people who have suffered infinitely more than you and remain good people dedicated to following real justice." She punctuated this with another glare.

Platinum sighed, and silence followed as she tried to sum up her thoughts. Finally, she continued.

"You're not a bad guy, Vert. Law enforcement needs someone like you, who is talented and committed to the future of Remnant that doesn't involve Grimm. You just gotta grow up first. But there's no rush". Platinum gave a smirk. "I'm sure after your little display everyone here will be monitoring you closely, most of all me and Oliver here, and the professor too. You're on a path towards self-destruction, and we'll try to make sure it happens when no one is around. Either that, or you get a fucking grip on reality. It's up to you in the end. You'll have the whole night out here alone to think about it. I bet you're getting cold."

Platinum was finished. She leaned over to Oliver.

"I hope I didn't miss anything. Your turn."