The Bugle Call: Song of War - Vol. 12 Ch. 36 - The Longest Day

[Neku]

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Gun Magic!

Wait, if they can reproduce this technology, why not give them to their armies?
Proxy war or not, they want to win, no?

The point of a proxy war is to avoid the devastation caused by a serious fight between world powers. If the Papal states use guns, someone else uses tanks. The closer they get to modern or future weaponry, the more danger of the Towers being destroyed or their rulers getting overthrown. If anyone resorts to nukes, game over. It's possible that the sudden power shift is less due to ideology and more because the Futurists don't care enough about winning to risk their Towers getting squished.

 

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That arrow was definitely on track to kill Lucas. Poppy may very well have her own hidden agenda in all this

If she had a serious agenda she'd lift up the poison arrow and tap Lucas with it. Or just use her power to put a drop of poison on him later. Attacking sloppily in front of someone who would clearly be angry about it and ensure you don't get a second chance seems more like poor impulse control.

 

[Ignore]

I'm not even mad at Poppy. The Pope is a piece of shit rat bastard, she has always been a less than willing conscript, and the entire premise of the war is predicated on lies and exploitation. The whole thing is bullshit from the ground up.

The Futurists are trying to kill the Pope because they consider him a threat to their lifestyle. Most stopped caring if the faction that engages in human sacrifice and eugenics won several centuries ago, the Pope didn't. Is he a nice or scrupulous person? No. But he seems guided by a sort of Utilitarian philosophy. If so, he's the only character we've seen with a sense of morality.

 

[Guyincognitus]

The Futurists are trying to kill the Pope because they consider him a threat to their lifestyle. Most stopped caring if the faction that engages in human sacrifice and eugenics won several centuries ago, the Pope didn't. Is he a nice or scrupulous person? No. But he seems guided by a sort of Utilitarian philosophy. If so, he's the only character we've seen with a sense of morality.

You know who else had his own sense of morality? Hitler! you can't philosophize your way out of being a mass murderer.

 

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You know who else had his own sense of morality? Hitler! you can't philosophize your way out of being a mass murderer.

Uhh... the Pope is the one fighting AGAINST the group that sorts people on the basis of appearance and burns the ones it considers undesirable to death in giant wicker men.

 

[Guyincognitus]

Uhh... the Pope is the one fighting AGAINST the group that sorts people on the basis of appearance and burns the ones it considers undesirable to death in giant wicker men.

He also led a band of mercenaries to rape and murder an innocent village. The lesser of two evils still goes straight to fucking hell.