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MY LAST ONE WAS ALMOST A MONTH AGO.

I play Aeris on Sterling, Break on Amethyst, Mukuro on Ruby and then I sometimes play the Personae Beauty, Dream, Cheshire Cat and Three of Three.

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UM. I will try to make this short. Yuri is actually sort of ambivalent about 'justice'. He has a conversation with Flynn where Flynn yelling at him for killing Ragou because Flynn is all about changing the system from WITHIN, and if he could have prosecuted Ragou, it would have done so much more actually work. And Yuri recognizes the validity of this.

At no point does Yuri SAY he's doing the right or just thing. He knows what he's doing is a crime, he knows it's highly subjective. From his perspective, by killing those men, he did the thing he HAD to do, because what the hell else was he supposed to do, let people die? But he doesn't use that reason to justify why he's RIGHT, just why he did it. He's highly bitter towards the nobility, and the laws because the nobility only uses them to their advantage, but his sense of justice is not so basic that hatred is what makes him act, either.

It's probably closer to say that Yuri believes in paying for what you do (sort of a more karmic principal I guess). Don Whitehorse 'payed for' the crimes of his grandson by committing seppuku. Yuri himself is ready to pay for his crimes at any time. He wouldn't necessarily call this 'justice' either, but it's the closest he comes to understanding it.

I WOULD PROBABLY GO AS FAR AS TO SAY YURI DOESN'T BELIEVE THERE IS AN ULTIMATE PLATONIC "JUSTICE"... but that's another essay I think.

Same question for Mukuro.