Do guns cause violence or do people.

[baron_badass]

The young man sitting on a park bench would be unremarkable if not for a few things. The most noticeable is his pure white hair. The next thing is the steampunk style rife that is sitting in his lap. He is tinkering with it using a few odd looking tools, but that doesn't not mean he is unaware of everything going on around him.

After a moment he puts his tools aside and looks up at the world around him. "Do you believe the sins of one should be passed to others?" His voice is soft with a upper crust accent. There is a tone of sadness as he asks and hesitance as well. Almost like he both wants to hear the answer and doesn't at the same time.

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[coldsong]

"As in 'the sins of the fathers'?" Loki eyes the man briefly but has more attention for the weapon in his lap. The AV field prevents most violence here, and would probably prevent injury from accidental discharge, but it's still odd to him to see people just walking around freely with firearms and disruptors. He always has a dozen daggers on him, but you never see them until he wants to use them.

Anyway!

"As a matter of justice, no. A person's sins belong to them alone, though the influences that prompted them to transgress are important to consider as well. However, as a matter of practicality, any situation that isn't resolved by a parent or ancestor will inevitably be passed along to the descendants to handle in one form or another. If the people my father wronged come for my blood, I cannot deny that he wronged them in order to save myself. I can either fight and slay them to silence them, or attempt to make a truce and amends."

[baron_badass]

"Yes," the young man replies quietly as he stands and slides the rifle into a holster strapped to his back. Percy had learned quickly he wouldn't be able to use his guns here, but having them at hand was more a comfort than anything. He doesn't like having empty hands. Empty hands means he needs to think and thinking never leads to anything good. "So you believe in revenge then," he asks as he walks closer. "wrong them because they wronged me and all that." He chuckles dryly. "We would get along well then."

[coldsong]

He moves like trouble. Loki cannot help but find that interesting, as the god of mischief, himself--but there's a sadness to the way the stranger speaks, as well.

"I do," he agrees with a grim nod. "But I acknowledge that vengeance is a double-edged sword. Those I have wronged are numerous, and far more likely, at this point, to come for me than I am likely to attack anyone who has harmed me in the past."

"It's a more than academic question at this point," he adds with a little frown. "Since I am raising children now. My past actions are hardly their fault, but they bear my name, and they will have to find their own peace with that somehow."

Hopefully they won't end up hating him for it. He doesn't think they will.

"Are you looking for a target for your vengeance, then, or waiting to be targeted?"

[baron_badass]

Percy studies the man with an expression that speaks volumes while he says nothing at all. He may look young but he has suffered a lot. Even his clothes, while well made, have seen rough use with the colors faded and the edges torn and tattered. When his coat moves, it reveals another holster at his hip with a smaller gun settled in it. "I am the younger son of a family of six," he says, "I have gone from a future where I would have been able to choose my own path to having the burden of leadership dropped on my shoulders without warning."

A look of deep sadness crosses his face "Now only two of us survive and I am...struggling with the choices I have made to bring myself here." He rests his hand on his hip holster and after a long moment draws out the smaller gun that is styled like a steampunk revvolver and has six names written on the barrel. "I have my targets...and yet....I have been asked to become something in exchange that....could cause me to lose my humanity in exchange." He studies the gun for a long moment. "I....am unsure now what I actually want to do."

[coldsong]

"My advice may not be worth much to you, then," he says quietly, but not without a hint of compassion. "I've never been human at all, nor do I ever expect to be. I'm either a god or a monster, or both, depending who you ask."

"Of what value is your humanity to you? How much of who you are is bound up in it? I don't think the self should ever be traded, not for any power or vengeance or blessing that exists...but there is a lot more to self than species or heredity."

[baron_badass]

"I myself am not a man of belief despite the things I've seen," he admits, "it is hard to be when you've experienced what I have." He reholsters the gun and sighs softly. "but I have friends that I did not before and if I give in to...what is hunting me I fear they might end up having to hunt me."