idle thought #486

[madimpossibledreamer]

 

 After thinking about it further, it’s because I don’t think Edgeworth would see himself as someone in control of most of his life, actually.    This isn’t a thought that he feels exonerates him; he should have questioned his training, his actions, his orders a whole lot earlier.    It’s true he might have punished some evildoers, but he knows, knows that the innocent were also among that number and may have gotten the death penalty.    (He probably spends some time, and money, trying to make amends, and some accept it, and some don’t.    One of the harsher ones might’ve prompted the ‘chooses death’ note.    Also, I did not intend the proximity of the words ‘death’ and ‘note’.    Whoops.)    He sees that as equivalent to striking them down himself.    However, he doesn’t feel he has the power or influence to change the system to save lives, a position that the Evil Magistrate would likely have.    (He would later gain this power as Chief Prosecutor, but early on this isn’t a factor.)    He was ‘only doing his job’, but feels as if he should have questioned his orders and rebelled much sooner.