Ah, the ol’ “Die a hero, or live long enough to become a villain.” Wonder what Tiki Wiki’s playing at with showing the skull to Rikk, though. Maybe just trying to play to his role with the Hand?
Tiki.. Do not antagonize The Rikk. You wanted to live long enough to see how The Hand took over? Then pissing this guy off by showing him the skull of one of his dearest friends isn’t the way to go.
I don’t think holding Erixon’s resurrection hostage will persuade Rikk. He should’ve mentioned the son he wants to leave a good example to getting cleaved in half just a few hours ago. And that he grew into an ass.
ok…. lets see…. the guy your friends gored open to bath you in his blood….OBVIOUSLY… ought to walk to you and bleed for you on his own volition. Anything else is wrong doing by the guys your friends shoot on sight without warning.
so… when was it that Rick changed aligments…. i missed that page… no… i miss old Rick…
@Drakkin, even the Rikk of the old days didn’t have too much problem doing anything to the bad guys short of killing them.
And the Hand earned “bad guy” status in his mind as soon as they blithely tried to kill Will, Di, Shanna and Baxter in North Korea. He’s heard this “it’s all for the greater good” stuff before, from Desmond Jones, from General Maximillianna. He didn’t buy it then, either.
(Well, okay, Rikk also had a problem with FIB torture cells. But Animal’s nature makes getting a little of his blood a minor inconvenience for him at best.)
Human body can heal a paper cut in days, if not hours. Well, it depends on how large a paper cut we’re talking about.
*slowly rips a piece of paper in two*
Come here.
What? Why are you backing away now? I said, come here. It will hurt, but you’ll get over it. And your blood will save this sarcastic dude you’ve never met before in your life. It’ll be totally worth it.
I don’t think he’s saying that the Hand has any sort of obligation to save him… except if they believe the very bullshit they’re trying to get him to buy in to. This isn’t “Rikk gone evil”, guys… this is “Rikk isn’t a goddamn idiot, he knows better than to just swallow this kind of speech”.
The same argument could be made of donating blood.
Answer a bunch of redundant questions on a questionnaire regardless of how often you’ve visited us, get poked in the finger, then sit with a needle in your arm for fifteen minutes, and, assuming we don’t decide your blood is tainted in some way shape or form previously unbeknownst to you, at some point in the future there’s a distinct possibility that it’ll be given to someone else who you will never, ever know about! Also, we’ll call you every single time there’s a donation vehicle anywhere in a thirty mile radius of the last place you donated, regardless of whether it’s in another state or just up the road.
And you get a cookie and some juice afterwards!
Hell, they could just pop a syringe in Animal’s arm, draw a vial of it and spray it at Rikk, and (presumably) he’d be fine. If Animal can recover from being essentially sliced in half, I imagine the needle hole would close over the instant the needle left it.
More to the point — the Hand is using the promise of a cure to try and seduce Rikk to their way of thinking. Rikk is — quite reasonably — calling bullshit on this. If they’re altruistic, they can cure him and then convince him of the rightness of their ways. To hold out a cure against his complicity reinforces the idea that their cause doesn’t hold up against scrutiny.
In other words, Rikk isn’t falling for the trap that Rumy dove into headfirst.
Ah, the ol’ “Die a hero, or live long enough to become a villain.” Wonder what Tiki Wiki’s playing at with showing the skull to Rikk, though. Maybe just trying to play to his role with the Hand?
Jerk
Tiki.. Do not antagonize The Rikk. You wanted to live long enough to see how The Hand took over? Then pissing this guy off by showing him the skull of one of his dearest friends isn’t the way to go.
Welcome to the Last Temptation of Rikk
Dude, Tiki Wiki, *too soon.*
I don’t think holding Erixon’s resurrection hostage will persuade Rikk. He should’ve mentioned the son he wants to leave a good example to getting cleaved in half just a few hours ago. And that he grew into an ass.
What a dick.
Friday Brasca, Friday.
@Arky: Last temptation?
One does not fear *one’s own* death.
Someone’s being played. Nearly anyone else on the team would rock back on their heels and think. Betting Rikk’s just going to go postal, though.
ok…. lets see…. the guy your friends gored open to bath you in his blood….OBVIOUSLY… ought to walk to you and bleed for you on his own volition. Anything else is wrong doing by the guys your friends shoot on sight without warning.
so… when was it that Rick changed aligments…. i missed that page… no… i miss old Rick…
I’ll agree that it’s an odd concept that Rikk’s survival hinges on his bathing in th ed blood of a sentient creature.
@Drakkin, even the Rikk of the old days didn’t have too much problem doing anything to the bad guys short of killing them.
And the Hand earned “bad guy” status in his mind as soon as they blithely tried to kill Will, Di, Shanna and Baxter in North Korea. He’s heard this “it’s all for the greater good” stuff before, from Desmond Jones, from General Maximillianna. He didn’t buy it then, either.
(Well, okay, Rikk also had a problem with FIB torture cells. But Animal’s nature makes getting a little of his blood a minor inconvenience for him at best.)
Human body can heal a paper cut in days, if not hours. Well, it depends on how large a paper cut we’re talking about.
*slowly rips a piece of paper in two*
Come here.
What? Why are you backing away now? I said, come here. It will hurt, but you’ll get over it. And your blood will save this sarcastic dude you’ve never met before in your life. It’ll be totally worth it.
I don’t think he’s saying that the Hand has any sort of obligation to save him… except if they believe the very bullshit they’re trying to get him to buy in to. This isn’t “Rikk gone evil”, guys… this is “Rikk isn’t a goddamn idiot, he knows better than to just swallow this kind of speech”.
Commiekeebler:
The same argument could be made of donating blood.
Answer a bunch of redundant questions on a questionnaire regardless of how often you’ve visited us, get poked in the finger, then sit with a needle in your arm for fifteen minutes, and, assuming we don’t decide your blood is tainted in some way shape or form previously unbeknownst to you, at some point in the future there’s a distinct possibility that it’ll be given to someone else who you will never, ever know about! Also, we’ll call you every single time there’s a donation vehicle anywhere in a thirty mile radius of the last place you donated, regardless of whether it’s in another state or just up the road.
And you get a cookie and some juice afterwards!
Hell, they could just pop a syringe in Animal’s arm, draw a vial of it and spray it at Rikk, and (presumably) he’d be fine. If Animal can recover from being essentially sliced in half, I imagine the needle hole would close over the instant the needle left it.
More to the point — the Hand is using the promise of a cure to try and seduce Rikk to their way of thinking. Rikk is — quite reasonably — calling bullshit on this. If they’re altruistic, they can cure him and then convince him of the rightness of their ways. To hold out a cure against his complicity reinforces the idea that their cause doesn’t hold up against scrutiny.
In other words, Rikk isn’t falling for the trap that Rumy dove into headfirst.