Dec 16, 2024
To:Hype
Thank you for the very kind words. Yes, sometimes we are our greatest critics. I still wish I could do better with the time I have, but the deadline is the deadline. But yes, I will try to remember to look at the good parts. Thank you.
You're not the only person to express skepticism or confusion about the situation. I didn't want to have a big lore dump, so I kind of left things implied in the first few chapters.
Part of it is indeed that she's scared they *might* be the people who attacked her village. But there are other reasons too.
The biggest is that she understands the stakes. If the nuke falls back into the wrong hands, it could lead to world war. Against that, a few lives are nothing. Lea and Oliver also understand the stakes, but Apollo does not.
There's also the fact that she was working as a guard in the village. She had already come to understand that she might need to kill to defend it.
And as she reasons in these chapters, Lea doesn't seem to have any compulsions about killing these guys. She doesn't want to think of Lea as a "bad" person, so whatever Lea's doing must me morally right.
As for the relationship with humans, that also plays a part in her willingness to kill: national identity. The nekomimi were all genetically engineered by the Federation. That's why Lea says, “No, Sprout, not everything a human makes is human. This gun ain’t human, and neither are we.”
They're a part of this Federation. Their enemies are largely disaffected soldiers from other countries. And as the prologue showed, the world had been at war for centuries, to the point where killing people from other countries just became the cultural norm.
