[10.45] Restless
on July 25, 2022
at 12:52 am
10.45 Transcript
Daisy: Go back to sleep.
Kiro: I cant sleep and I’m cold. I’ve been thinking… what if he knew something we don’t? … What if it really is that easy? Get rid of me, and break the curse?
Daisy: That’s a bunch of nonsense and you know it. There is no curse, and I already told you.
Kiro: You know, if I had to give my life… I would never do it. Even if I knew everyone would suffer for it. There’s no way.
Daisy: You can sleep here if you want. Just get some rest. You’re tired and your mind is screwing with you.
Poor Kiro and Daisy
Omg it’s been a year almost
During the height of COVID this is actually how I felt. Like, I’d want to die if it would somehow fix everything. But I think the only way forward is through. You gotta live.
I’ve been wondering about the mirrored background ever since the comic started. Is it a map of the North American westcoast?
Looks like it’s the east side of Admiralty Island, in the Alexander Archipelago, Alaska.
It works really well as a background, I like it.
Daisy and Kiro are certainly having a bad night, and that’s putting it mildly.
@Samantha – but *you* aren’t a monster like Kiro, who is saying the exact oppposite. *She* wouldn’t lay down her life for others, no matter what the cost. I sympathise – self-sacrifice is never going to be an easy choice, especially in cold blood, and on a guess (in Kiro’s case) – but I’m not sure how ready I would be to just /tell/ everyone that.
But people CALLED me a monster because I largely refused to play the game during COVID, and said that we shouldn’t be doing this stuff.
We did alot of farming and hiking, avoiding cities where they policed social distance. I got through the whole pandemic without ever being made to mask. But not without huge amounts of isolation and despair.
In any case, alot of people in heroic stories hold up self-sacrifice as altruism. Two notable exceptions: Ayn Rand books, and Japanese shows. In such shows, they typically try heavily to talk people out of that sort of thing, because Japanese culture basically reached a crisis point where they had to do away with the hara-kiri thing to move ahead as a culture.
Also, Kiro is just a girl. Not a monster. And her initial line was, “What if it really is that easy? Get rid of me, and break the curse?” before deciding she wouldn’t do it.
There may be a very big difference between telling everyone and telling someone.
@O8h7w That is very true and a point well made. I should probably have said *anyone* rather than *everyone* Of course sometimes the optics don’t matter as much as the trust and Kiro and Daisy are both very lacking in trust yet Daisy has just gone a long way out on a limb for Kiro. Is Kiro being honest in turn or is she manipulating someone who might actually be a friend?
It’s not good when your mind does that.