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littlestsnicket · 2 years

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volunteers don’t murder people (except when they do).

volunteers don’t set out with the intention of doing harm (but sometime you come prepared for the worst and you act).

volunteers aren’t pacifists (except the ones that are) (they’re protecting the vulnerable quiet that exists in the world not trying to making more of it).

#asoue #vfd #i’ve been thinking about this on and off since becca got the ask about the opera night like months ago #but i really don’t think that it fits with any of the canonical evidence for a volunteer to go on a mission to murder someone #but like kit asking the baudelaires to send a signal if the hotel isn’t safe #sometimes murder is more palpable than failure #i think snicket sleuth takes about vfd are generally bad? in a that is way more morally gray than vfd was ever intended to be #the other thing that is interesting to me is whether or not lemony has really reclaimed the title of volunteer or #if vfd has always been that at it’s best #and any poorly organized sprawl of an organization isn’t truly united in purpose ever #but it as a common intention of recruiting people to protect things #it’s about doing what you can to make the world better #but it’s also about the danger of not knowing your useful limits and letting that impulse consume you #and the schism is about how that can make you bitter and selfish #and i have lots of thoughts about this but my brain is still in witcher mode #but ultimately *that* is about similar things as well

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