dscrank said:
You know, Valkys, threatening someone because they look down on you just isn't that much of a justification. I'm going to have to side with Tomas on this. Besides, Sirsei's beginning to contradict herself. She says she didn't break any of the Oaths, but she also says she didn't mean the threat. Now if she didn't mean the threat, it was a lie. That, or more truth-twisting than I'd buy. If she did mean the threat, then she was willing to break the Oath about using the One Power as a weapon. Either way, it doesn't look good.
First, making a threat is *not* lying. Consider Moiraine. While she isn't as heavy-handed as Sirsei(after all, she has more experience under her belt), she was willing to threaten people at the Baerlon Gate, or at least allow them to believe she was capable of harming them with the One Power. And I assure you, Sirsei was angry enough to mean it at the time. She's still mad. However, you're allowed to have regrets after you consider your actions, right?
And as far as lying to Lila, I think her comment was *very* Aes Sedai. "If you truly feel that i would have carried out such a threat". She isn't denying that she would have carried it out, necessarily. She's laying the decision at Lila's feet. What does she believe.
And it isn't meant to look good. Sirsei is in the middle of a moral dilemma. They're hardly easy. This is her character flaw, one of several. But it's the one being emphasized most right now.
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might have been other ways to go. She attempted the witty remark. Tomas was uncouth. Now, if you're in a position like this, real life, where some one is stronger than you, physically and has refused to acknowledge an attempt at a medium of 'social combat, yet you know you have another advantage, I say you use it. If someone doesn't choose to take the hint politely, you teach them the lesson any way they choose to take it.
Tomas could have let it go with Sirsei's suggestion that he be more noble and diplomatic. He didn't. She didn't. She can channel. He can't. She used her advantage, knowing she might get in trouble for it. It's like pulling a gun on someone, I guess, when you know they're unarmed. It isn't noble, but it does teach the lesson. Of course, then the cops come after you. But as long as you didn't shoot them, and you have a permit... well...call it social self defense. In this case, the gun wasn't loaded, she just pointed out that she owned one and would be willing to use it.
And I didn't mean to rant, but I feel like you're criticizing me for the way I am playing my character. She's finding her place, and I'm still finding my stride. But I know this was in character for her.
