No-that’s what he fears, though, that someone in England may decide that instead of trying him for treason, it would be more cost-effective and less embarrassing to do to him what was done to Thomas. Ironically, his best chance for avoiding that is now to help them to get the terms of the treaty reworked and then throw himself on the mercy of the people he tried to stamp out. I’m big on redemption through fixing what you broke, and before you ask what the difference is between Rogers and Silver in that respect, I really don’t see Silver ever apologizing for what he did or being able to fix it if he were sorry because it’s just too big. Basically I think the difference is that we see Rogers being haunted by the consequences of his actions and apologizing to Eleanor whereas Silver very specifically says, “I’m not sorry,” and waits for Madi to come around to his way of thinking instead of acknowledging that he’s done anything wrong.
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I’ve read your addictional chapters and I don’t understand… madi with eme? Rogers as a good person? I’m quite perplexed…
Re: Madi/Eme – I’ll be honest, Anon, I’m not quite sure what you’re confused about. Madi being bi? Her not being with Silver? Honestly there’s not that much there to understand – I have no reason not to have Madi be some flavor of not-straight, and therefore I’m setting her up for a nice, fulfilling relationship with someone who will treat her right since her last relationship very obviously did not work out.
As to Rogers – if it helps, I wouldn’t say he’s being a good person even now. He’s being a self-interested one – one that can see that he’s in a Very Bad Situation politically and personally, and all too likely to lose his head to one side or the other unless he does something helpful and now. He’s also just had a wake up call regarding the rule of civilization in the form of listening to Thomas talk about what he’s been through – I think the prospect of being sold to such a place himself would scare the shit out of Rogers, because he’s a disgraced nobleman of sorts himself and that could be him. Basically he’s taking steps to save his own ass, quite independent of any kind of empathy for anyone (which I don’t believe him to possess a great deal of, or if he does, it’s reserved solely for people that he actually cares about).
tl;dr: Madi/Eme is a thing because why not and Rogers is not a good person, he’s still a dick, just at the moment he’s doing something advantageous to Madi and company because he wants to stay alive and not enslaved and because Thomas manipulated the shit out of him.
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