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clara oswald ([personal profile] bosswald) wrote in [community profile] thisavrou_ooc 2016-06-19 04:16 am (UTC)

wow this is so long i am sorry

She would give the idea of using the concept of someone's infinite potential - the concept of a single life being cut short. Something along the lines of:

"Someone full of stories, full of history. And full of a future that never got lived. Days that should have been that never were. Passed on to me. This life isn’t just the past, it’s a whole future that never happened. There are billions and millions of unlived days for every day we live. An infinity. All the days that never came. Because there’s quite a difference, isn’t there, between what was, and what should have been? There’s an awful lot of one, but there’s an infinity of the other. And infinity’s too much. The scales can't ever be even with the loss you've experienced."

She'll try to reach their sense of understanding that fact, that revenge won't get back the potential of the lives that they lost and that she understands the pain they're feeling because she's seen her home being destroyed and can empathize with how it must feel. But no matter how much you lose, the universe doesn't work at an eye for an eye level. Loss answered with more loss will create a bigger imbalance, and cause more trouble for them in the long run because it won't help solve their problems and would take away the one group of people that are willing to help them. She wants to get them to come to a peaceful understanding that making things equal isn't actually a possibility, and would point out that threatening to attack is the biggest threat they can make. Never start with your final sanction. You've got nowhere to go but backward, which doesn't leave them with much wiggle room on making negotiations. And that's exactly what they're trying to do - threaten the lives of everyone on the Moira, when they should be making negotiations for them. They can get a lot more to help them in the long run by negotiating rather than pushing their final sanction with such a narrow focus.

They lost resources, a home, and many lives. Clara would recommend offering to help build up their resources, find them a new home that isn't made of glass, and ensure safe passage. A new start is the best source of infinite potential that Clara can think of, and she'll be really big on trying to push that idea in order to get them away from thinking of making things equal. Hope for the future and their own survival is stronger than a thirst for revenge, she hopes.

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