Character: 76 (mylawn) Death: In the stadium, at the hands of a Regency agent. Vision: 6 (cw suicide) Details: It's something he's considered for a long time––that if he'd joined COST willingly, then Ana Amari wouldn't have let him do it alone. Unable to remember the circumstances of his recruitment, 76 entertained the possibility that they'd enlisted together and been separated somewhere along the line. He hasn't exactly worked up the nerve to find out, eventually deciding he'd rather not know. This catches up to him eventually, however, when it's revealed he was wrong to ever have that thought.
They're granted the mercy of one last conversation, but Jack knows what he's going to do before they begin. He won't kill her, and COST must know that––or maybe they think he's too good a soldier to disobey orders, even one like this. Either way, it's been made clear that failure isn't an option, but hasn't he spent a lifetime sacrificing larger and larger parts of himself for the greater good? Isn't he allowed to be selfish, just this once?
He and Ana catch up, a little. They talk about the mission back home, the one that he abandoned for a supposedly greater cause. Jack explains his current task to the best of his ability. When he asserts that he won't go through with it, she understands what he intends to do, and that's where she stops him. If it really is a matter of securing the future, then she's willing to make that sacrifice, but he won't accept that answer. COST could be lying. She has a daughter. He's the one that got tangled up in this war, so he should take the fall. Maybe this will give her the chance to run, before they realize he's failed and come to finish the job themselves.
None of this satisfies her and Jack has a sneaking suspicion that she'll choose to remove herself from the equation anyway, but he appreciates that she's at least pretending to let him have his way. Jack won't make her pull the trigger, but he needs her to hold the gun in place, guiding the muzzle up against his BCE. She promises to find Gabriel for him, though he's fairly certain she's lying, because there isn't going to be anything beyond this for either of them. He wishes he had something more meaningful to say––something that makes it clear how much she means to him, or something that neatly closes the book on their thirty years of shared history, but he's never been very good at putting that kind of thing into words. His hand over hers in the moment before everything goes black will have to be enough.
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Death: In the stadium, at the hands of a Regency agent.
Vision: 6 (cw suicide)
Details: It's something he's considered for a long time––that if he'd joined COST willingly, then Ana Amari wouldn't have let him do it alone. Unable to remember the circumstances of his recruitment, 76 entertained the possibility that they'd enlisted together and been separated somewhere along the line. He hasn't exactly worked up the nerve to find out, eventually deciding he'd rather not know. This catches up to him eventually, however, when it's revealed he was wrong to ever have that thought.
They're granted the mercy of one last conversation, but Jack knows what he's going to do before they begin. He won't kill her, and COST must know that––or maybe they think he's too good a soldier to disobey orders, even one like this. Either way, it's been made clear that failure isn't an option, but hasn't he spent a lifetime sacrificing larger and larger parts of himself for the greater good? Isn't he allowed to be selfish, just this once?
He and Ana catch up, a little. They talk about the mission back home, the one that he abandoned for a supposedly greater cause. Jack explains his current task to the best of his ability. When he asserts that he won't go through with it, she understands what he intends to do, and that's where she stops him. If it really is a matter of securing the future, then she's willing to make that sacrifice, but he won't accept that answer. COST could be lying. She has a daughter. He's the one that got tangled up in this war, so he should take the fall. Maybe this will give her the chance to run, before they realize he's failed and come to finish the job themselves.
None of this satisfies her and Jack has a sneaking suspicion that she'll choose to remove herself from the equation anyway, but he appreciates that she's at least pretending to let him have his way. Jack won't make her pull the trigger, but he needs her to hold the gun in place, guiding the muzzle up against his BCE. She promises to find Gabriel for him, though he's fairly certain she's lying, because there isn't going to be anything beyond this for either of them. He wishes he had something more meaningful to say––something that makes it clear how much she means to him, or something that neatly closes the book on their thirty years of shared history, but he's never been very good at putting that kind of thing into words. His hand over hers in the moment before everything goes black will have to be enough.