[Whether or not they are 'good' is really in the eye of the beholder. The villains detained in Tartarus - the maximum security prison that holds the deadliest villains in Japan - most definitely isn't seen as good or favorable by those who would call themselves villains. Hell, even the smaller prisons and jails throughout the country aren't exactly a haven for the criminal underbelly. Ochako isn't so dense, and brainwashed by her society, to not understand this basic fact of life. What is 'good and bad' isn't as simple as one may think.]
I don't know what it means to be shinobi, just what it means to be a hero...and I think those two are very different, yeah. If heroes killed so easily...I don't think people would consider them heroes. It's like I said - murder is still a crime where I'm from, and it doesn't matter how you try to justify it. I was taught it shouldn't even be considered as an option, and to always try to do nonlethal damage to a villain, but...villains don't think like that. They strike to kill. And the worst of the worst will never change how they think or act. They don't want a hero to save them, after all. To them...we are the villains.
[Ochako sighs. Rubs her face. The more Homura talked about how she killed, the more Ochako's head throbbed. She's right, it sounded like the more she did it, the easier it became, and that's...scary. It's scary, and it's very uncomfortable for Ochako, especially talking about killing her comrades. Ochako's stomach lurches, and she had to swallow hard, squeezing her eyes shut. Killing so easily like that, even for friends and allies...what value did a human life have, at that point?]
...I'm glad you did. This sort of thing I don't really like to talk about. I couldn't do what you do, ever, I...I-I know I wouldn't be strong enough. Maybe it's naïve of me, but that's just the sort of person I am.
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[Whether or not they are 'good' is really in the eye of the beholder. The villains detained in Tartarus - the maximum security prison that holds the deadliest villains in Japan - most definitely isn't seen as good or favorable by those who would call themselves villains. Hell, even the smaller prisons and jails throughout the country aren't exactly a haven for the criminal underbelly. Ochako isn't so dense, and brainwashed by her society, to not understand this basic fact of life. What is 'good and bad' isn't as simple as one may think.]
I don't know what it means to be shinobi, just what it means to be a hero...and I think those two are very different, yeah. If heroes killed so easily...I don't think people would consider them heroes. It's like I said - murder is still a crime where I'm from, and it doesn't matter how you try to justify it. I was taught it shouldn't even be considered as an option, and to always try to do nonlethal damage to a villain, but...villains don't think like that. They strike to kill. And the worst of the worst will never change how they think or act. They don't want a hero to save them, after all. To them...we are the villains.
[Ochako sighs. Rubs her face. The more Homura talked about how she killed, the more Ochako's head throbbed. She's right, it sounded like the more she did it, the easier it became, and that's...scary. It's scary, and it's very uncomfortable for Ochako, especially talking about killing her comrades. Ochako's stomach lurches, and she had to swallow hard, squeezing her eyes shut. Killing so easily like that, even for friends and allies...what value did a human life have, at that point?]
...I'm glad you did. This sort of thing I don't really like to talk about. I couldn't do what you do, ever, I...I-I know I wouldn't be strong enough. Maybe it's naïve of me, but that's just the sort of person I am.