MoogleEmpMog
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IMC, she would fall, but still be able to atone.
Her logical leaps are large but not, in fact, illogical. If Shojo and the OotS were the NPCs and Miko the PC, I would totally expect her guess to prove true, although I'd still have her fall temporarily.
I'm not sure why Hinjo would be considered a legitimate authority over her. Is he the heir to Shojo's throne? I don't recall offhand. Anyway, until Shojo is formally stripped of power or dead, Hinjo is only the heir and won't necessarily be the regent, depending on the system. As a member of the paladinic order, Miko outranks him and therefore the decision on the ground would seem to fall to her.
I don't believe in binding characters in a fantasy or sci-fi setting to the peculiarities of modern jurisprudence, so the "OMG due process!!11" reaction would never occur to me.
Nor would I have her fall because she killed Shojo, who, as it turns out, wasn't guilty. At the level of wealth and power she, Shojo and the OotS all operate on, death is an inconvenience and probably the safest way to incarcerate a dangerous criminal. Shojo dead is actually *easier* to try with some hope of getting an accurate result; corrupt officials under his thumb would be more likely to give their honest opinion without a (in Miko's eyes) dread spider of a manipulator spinning a web of deceit and destruction around them. If found innocent, Shojo would be raised raised and reparations of some type are paid, and if found guilty, death would have been the obvious penalty anyway.
No, the reason I would have Miko fall is because she struck IN ANGER. She behaved in a completely chaotic manner, acting on a sudden surge of emotion rather than reasoned, even if inaccurate, conclusions. Miko could have reasonably come to the conclusion that killing Shojo was the right thing to do - but she didn't. She whacked him because she hated the OotS, because she was personally offended by what Shojo had done, and, ultimately, because she was overly emotional to begin with.
What's worse, this is the second time she almost killed in anger. The first time, it was Belkar and, let's face it, she would have been 100% in the right to strike him down (albeit not with all of her hatred) if Shojo hadn't ordered her not to. In several other instances, she's behaved in a highly emotional manner. She appears to have been, up to this moment, constraining herself for the sake of her code (lawful behavior), but what she's been struggling with is her innate (chaotic) nature.
Now she's lost the struggle.
At best, she's NG after this. She could easily slip to TN or CG - or go all out in disillusionment and end up CN, NE or CE - because that seems to be more in keeping with her character. She could regain her control, albeit with continual struggle, earn back a LG alignment and atone for her fall. But for the moment, her mindset is completely chaotic and she should neither have access to her paladin powers nor be able to advance as a monk.
Her logical leaps are large but not, in fact, illogical. If Shojo and the OotS were the NPCs and Miko the PC, I would totally expect her guess to prove true, although I'd still have her fall temporarily.
I'm not sure why Hinjo would be considered a legitimate authority over her. Is he the heir to Shojo's throne? I don't recall offhand. Anyway, until Shojo is formally stripped of power or dead, Hinjo is only the heir and won't necessarily be the regent, depending on the system. As a member of the paladinic order, Miko outranks him and therefore the decision on the ground would seem to fall to her.
I don't believe in binding characters in a fantasy or sci-fi setting to the peculiarities of modern jurisprudence, so the "OMG due process!!11" reaction would never occur to me.
Nor would I have her fall because she killed Shojo, who, as it turns out, wasn't guilty. At the level of wealth and power she, Shojo and the OotS all operate on, death is an inconvenience and probably the safest way to incarcerate a dangerous criminal. Shojo dead is actually *easier* to try with some hope of getting an accurate result; corrupt officials under his thumb would be more likely to give their honest opinion without a (in Miko's eyes) dread spider of a manipulator spinning a web of deceit and destruction around them. If found innocent, Shojo would be raised raised and reparations of some type are paid, and if found guilty, death would have been the obvious penalty anyway.
No, the reason I would have Miko fall is because she struck IN ANGER. She behaved in a completely chaotic manner, acting on a sudden surge of emotion rather than reasoned, even if inaccurate, conclusions. Miko could have reasonably come to the conclusion that killing Shojo was the right thing to do - but she didn't. She whacked him because she hated the OotS, because she was personally offended by what Shojo had done, and, ultimately, because she was overly emotional to begin with.
What's worse, this is the second time she almost killed in anger. The first time, it was Belkar and, let's face it, she would have been 100% in the right to strike him down (albeit not with all of her hatred) if Shojo hadn't ordered her not to. In several other instances, she's behaved in a highly emotional manner. She appears to have been, up to this moment, constraining herself for the sake of her code (lawful behavior), but what she's been struggling with is her innate (chaotic) nature.
Now she's lost the struggle.
At best, she's NG after this. She could easily slip to TN or CG - or go all out in disillusionment and end up CN, NE or CE - because that seems to be more in keeping with her character. She could regain her control, albeit with continual struggle, earn back a LG alignment and atone for her fall. But for the moment, her mindset is completely chaotic and she should neither have access to her paladin powers nor be able to advance as a monk.
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