Date: November 12 2021 1:06 PM Title: Nightmare
You are right Kurogane335 in your assertions. I think the second thing you said was fine, Bridget believed with all her heart in the system her parents founded. That was her mistake, but it is normal after all it is not a perfect system but it is quite fair (given the situation of the universe in which it is framed) Even so, Bridget believed in that system more than she believed in her adoptive sister and although these contradictions are manifested in her being in the Inheritance story yet she should have at least given her sister some credit. Ask for the investigation, see if at least what Lexi said was possible. It's just that for some Omegas it's hard to see the flaws in the work when you just admire its magnificence. How quickly Evelyn realized that something was wrong just by remembering that Nathaniel's last name. But she was two weeks to realize in which her daughter had to make her sister suffer. But still I think Bridget is taking things very seriously. It is normal for her to suffer that way. It's not every day that you realize that you made the person you care about most suffer senseless. It's okay at first, but to separate completely from her sister? Not looking into her face again? I think that would cause more damage to both of them. Between good sisters everything is solved sooner or later.
As for the instantaneous size change, it remains to be seen if it is from Bridget or Lexi or someone else. It may be that Lexi, given her contacts with Kayla, will do any of the alternatives you mentioned. There is also the possibility that he asks her to be an Omega to share her sister's point of view and also become a champion of world justice (or worse, a cataclysmic force that consumes it hahaha. Although I doubt that Kayla will allow it). Although I think that with the fame that Lexi has (the apple never falls far from the tree) it is difficult for Kayla to grant it to her.
Author's Response: There are definitely meant to be some difficult shades of gray to deal with in Inheritance, and that will carry over into this story too
[Report This]Date: November 12 2021 9:26 AM Title: Nightmare
I'm less harsh on Bridget that some of you for a few reasons :
- Kayla's the one who created the Omegas to be biased toward Betas and unrelenting
- Bridget is a young Omega who believed wholeheartedly on the system in place - which was crafted by her parent's generation
- She probably shared Evelyn's idea that something had never been dealed with and healed about Lexi's past and that it had simply accumulated until she broke
- Lexi didn't live with them for quite some time and while they were close it's entirely possible she fell in with a bad crowd who had ignited something bad in her
- Finally, the sad idea that the apple doesn't fall far from the tree can have played a part
All that isn't to say that what she did was okay. It wasn't. But when you're inside a system and that you benefit from it (and let's not beat around the bush, Omegas benefit tremendously from it, what with being immortal half-gods and all that) it's extremely hard to see the flaws and even more to correct them or oppose the system.
Now, unrelated to it, I'm extremely intruiged by the fact that Lexi's the one seeking out and the Instant Size Change tag. I've got two ideas around it : either Lexi will ask Kayla to make her a Beta because she wants to entirely sever her ties with Alma, or Bridget will ask to be made an Alpha, even temporarily, to try and better understand her sister.
Also, I still maintain that Bridget's not loving Lexi only like a sister.
Author's Response: You bring up good points. Lexi suffered much more than Bridget in the last story, but Bridget also was never meant to feel like a villainous force. The instant size change tag will definitely have an important part, or even part(s), in this story
Date: November 11 2021 7:39 PM Title: Nightmare
IMHO Bridget deserves it. It is that we will no longer go into the subject of Kayla and her mind reading because she would have saved Lexi thousands of problems but hey... Why didn't Omega believe in her best friend? Even though she told him over and over that it wasn't her. Despite how overwhelming the evidence could have been, there are 3 things that I do not accept:
1- Suppose she had really been Lexi. Did Bridget seriously believe that she would not tell the truth of what she had done to her friend to save her time from torture? If Bridget really knew Lexi for so many years, as she said, she should know that if her friend didn't say so it was for something.
2- Why was the chewing gum evidence not relevant? If Lexi was in that alley and had traces of the chewing gum on her shoe, it implies that she did not clean them which means that traces of the skin, bones or blood of the Betas that she had allegedly beaten would have remained in the alley. And if these traces were not found then the story of those 5 was not entirely true. To top it off, there was one left to wake up and they didn't even bother to postpone the "Lexi sessions" until she woke up. It was easier, for the Omegas, to follow the evidence of a stranger (who by the way, no one bothered to investigate from the beginning) rather than the claim of innocence of an Alpha they had known for years. I don't blame Bridget for that, she's just an Enforcer after all, but I do blame Evelyn. I guess Lexi was just followed by her heritage. Ha ha ha
3- If it really had been Lexi, did the Omegas seriously believe that she would be so stupid? When you commit such a crime, in Ackbar's universe haha, everyone knows the consequences if the truth is found out. So it would have been easier for Lexi to erase all the evidence of the crime. It would be easy for Alma's daughter since she knew how Omegas worked and no one had to know.
So in short, why didn't Bridget believe her friend? Why does she treat her like she's just another crap Alpha who mistreats Betas? Why didn't the Omegas even bother to corroborate Lexi's version, as incredible as it was? Well Bridget there you have the consequences. You will have to live with it.
Author's Response: I'm sure Lexi has wrestled with some of these same questions. Thanks for reviewing
Date: November 10 2021 4:27 PM Title: Nightmare
Poor Bridget , she needs some therapy or something
Author's Response: For sure
[Report This]Date: November 10 2021 3:25 AM Title: Nightmare
I feel like Kayla despite doing overall good caused this. It's kinda her fault too. Like I would put less blame on her if she wasn't some goddess with mind reading powers and was just big. But she can READ MINDS! How is she not sitting at every single alpha interrogation making sure that they actually did wrong?
If she's gonna be tormenting and even executing people as punishment for crimes and she has the means to be 100% sure that they ARE crimes, why isn't she there? If she doesn't want to be stuck reading every mind of every potential criminal Alpha then I argue she shouldn't be torturing or killing, only locking them up.
This could have been avoided. Again, if she didn't have that mind read ability I'd be more on her side. I'm sure she has alot on her plate too but cmon! Don't be torturing and killing ppl if you can't even bother to make 100% sure!
Author's Response: Fair considerations. Thanks for reading
[Report This]Date: November 09 2021 5:47 PM Title: Nightmare
Nice, I knew from the beginning it was Bridget's dream.
She deserves the pain. When character loses to the Fire, you are weak. These fearful people who need governmental approval to feel good about hurting others. Those are the worst and are capable of betrayal while telling you how you need this and what good people they are. I hate these types and you see these stouges too, supporting the richest and most evil people in the world.
Love your universe, learned a lot from you and Ackbar in writing.
Author's Response: I can tell a lot of readers were hoping to see Bridget face some punishment for the last story. Thanks for reviewing
[Report This]Date: November 09 2021 2:48 PM Title: Nightmare
Good chapter and only the beginning of what she deserves. Love it ^^
Author's Response: Thanks for reading