[ this stranger is a compelling, well-spoken, and strictly composed young woman that seems to demand respect. she looks like she can't be far past teenaged, but she carries herself like a foreign dignitary, so very different from Claire or Alex. castiel watches her speak as much as he's consuming what she says, nodding quietly as he internalizes it. This isn't the first celebration around the victory of a war in human history, surely to be far from the last. No, that part makes sense, especially as she explains it, a fight for survival. Yet, it's what's missing more than what's here that's become a nagging blank in his mind. ]
Humanity did, yes. [ cas begins, perhaps carefully, and takes a second to form this in his head before voicing it, trying to be particular about what it is that makes this hard for him to swallow. ] But at the cost of another species' extinction. That isn't how wars typically end.
[ castiel will never condemn the survival of humanity, he adores them all much too fiercely and has gone into battle (and death) to see them spared divine or demonic wrath too often, but he won't overlook their wrongs either. the fact remains, this war didn't leave a winning and losing side to come back together in peace after - one eradicated the other. as for the deeper infection, castiel's shaking his head, lips pressed as he seems to struggle with finding an answer for that. ]
I can't say. There isn't enough information - there isn't any information. [ not here, at least, which is the glaring issue that's really bothering him, and castiel's frankly glad he has someone to talk it through with, even if it's this woman he's never met. it's a fresh and foreign perspective, and that never hurts. ] If we believe what we're presented with now, we know there was once another race of intelligent life on this planet that now no longer exists, because the other deemed it inherently evil.
[ and that feels extremely suspect to him, regardless of what was done to deserve it or not. it wasn't just a war, it was a cleansing. the enemy is no long represented in this world, at all. castiel's eyes are lost for a lull of silence, off somewhere in the distance, brow deeply furrow as he seems to roll the idea through his head again before returning his attention to lexa. ]
For millions of years, I haven't known any form of life that's inherently evil. Not by nature.
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Humanity did, yes. [ cas begins, perhaps carefully, and takes a second to form this in his head before voicing it, trying to be particular about what it is that makes this hard for him to swallow. ] But at the cost of another species' extinction. That isn't how wars typically end.
[ castiel will never condemn the survival of humanity, he adores them all much too fiercely and has gone into battle (and death) to see them spared divine or demonic wrath too often, but he won't overlook their wrongs either. the fact remains, this war didn't leave a winning and losing side to come back together in peace after - one eradicated the other. as for the deeper infection, castiel's shaking his head, lips pressed as he seems to struggle with finding an answer for that. ]
I can't say. There isn't enough information - there isn't any information. [ not here, at least, which is the glaring issue that's really bothering him, and castiel's frankly glad he has someone to talk it through with, even if it's this woman he's never met. it's a fresh and foreign perspective, and that never hurts. ] If we believe what we're presented with now, we know there was once another race of intelligent life on this planet that now no longer exists, because the other deemed it inherently evil.
[ and that feels extremely suspect to him, regardless of what was done to deserve it or not. it wasn't just a war, it was a cleansing. the enemy is no long represented in this world, at all. castiel's eyes are lost for a lull of silence, off somewhere in the distance, brow deeply furrow as he seems to roll the idea through his head again before returning his attention to lexa. ]
For millions of years, I haven't known any form of life that's inherently evil. Not by nature.