[These are some serious implications to make to someone who's only 17- someone whose deeds had saved a lot of other people who were enslaved to people who hoarded power over them. Never once did they have to resort to killing. Never once did they do something they regretted, because the truth that they sought existed entirely in their abilities to change the minds of shitty adults.
But this? This is history. This is stuff that's already happened as far as Ryuji knows. And as far as Ashitaka knows, this is the future. Stuff that hasn't happened yet.
So here's the moral conundrum that they're both faced with. If they both know what the course and outcome looks like, is it their jobs to make sure that it goes according to plan, simply because they're both COST agents? Or is there an alternate route? What if they do something that makes the future entirely unstable? Funny, that's exactly what they're supposed to be doing, for a future that hasn't come to fruition yet.
Ryuji feels ridiculously heavy when he talks to Ashitaka. It's like a weight on his own heart, because honestly? He doesn't know the answer. He wants to do right by the world- wants to do things like help him purge the curse inside him, set things toward the right course of action and leave a positive impact on the world.]
Let's do our best, then.
We might not know what the hell's gonna happen by trying, but I gotta believe that what we're doing is right.
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But this? This is history. This is stuff that's already happened as far as Ryuji knows. And as far as Ashitaka knows, this is the future. Stuff that hasn't happened yet.
So here's the moral conundrum that they're both faced with. If they both know what the course and outcome looks like, is it their jobs to make sure that it goes according to plan, simply because they're both COST agents? Or is there an alternate route? What if they do something that makes the future entirely unstable? Funny, that's exactly what they're supposed to be doing, for a future that hasn't come to fruition yet.
Ryuji feels ridiculously heavy when he talks to Ashitaka. It's like a weight on his own heart, because honestly? He doesn't know the answer. He wants to do right by the world- wants to do things like help him purge the curse inside him, set things toward the right course of action and leave a positive impact on the world.]
Let's do our best, then.
We might not know what the hell's gonna happen by trying, but I gotta believe that what we're doing is right.
We are, right?