[Sephiroth and socializing don't.. really go together. At all. Ever. They never had. But in the absence of his only friends, this is as close to human contact he gets!]
Very well. In my experience, even murderous criminals are not usually stupid. The stupid ones don't last long.
We must first extract this individual from what they know. After all, this isn't Midgar.
Let us hypothesize your standard petty gang leader has just arrived. Interested in only his own power, willing to beat or kill people to get more power and wealth, extortion and drugs are acceptable and so on, no low is too low if it means gain. He has his small following of equally vile underlings to form his base. He's used to being a bigger fish in a tiny pond.
Now remove him from it entirely and drop him on another planet, where he is surrounded by strangers with powers and abilities he can't hope to guess at never mind match, and his own resources are completely absent. There is certainly an opportunity for him to attempt to seize power! But his name means nothing, his reputation means nothing, and there are no underlings to do his bidding. No-one kneels before a tyrant no-one knows. There are no bribes to levy, no families to threaten.
He must start over, and he must learn more about what he is and what he's becoming in order to gain the power he wants. He can leave the convoy, but then he'll be on his own in a hostile and unfamiliar place, unarmed, unprotected. The monsters of the wilds will not tame so easily to be his new power base.
It serves him (and us) to work with the convoy and not openly against it, learn what he can, share what he is willing to part with, not for any altruistic helpful nature but that it directly helps him build his own power back up. It has nothing to do with the greater good and everything to do with helping himself, or he gets nothing in return.
The more intelligent the criminal, the more likely it is he will understand if he wants to gain power here, he will have to cooperate and "play nice" for at least a while. It is very difficult for anyone to just trample their way through all adversity in this convoy. Even I would be hard pressed to subdue everyone here.
He may be scheming the entire time he's with us, he is not "a good person" and he will never act out of true altruism. But if he wants to eat, if he wants medical care, protection of the convoy, armanents and safety, then as he cannot take them by force anymore he will bend to the rules of civilization.
it's safe enough so long as there's no little mountain hamlets to set on fire..
Very well. In my experience, even murderous criminals are not usually stupid. The stupid ones don't last long.
We must first extract this individual from what they know. After all, this isn't Midgar.
Let us hypothesize your standard petty gang leader has just arrived. Interested in only his own power, willing to beat or kill people to get more power and wealth, extortion and drugs are acceptable and so on, no low is too low if it means gain. He has his small following of equally vile underlings to form his base. He's used to being a bigger fish in a tiny pond.
Now remove him from it entirely and drop him on another planet, where he is surrounded by strangers with powers and abilities he can't hope to guess at never mind match, and his own resources are completely absent. There is certainly an opportunity for him to attempt to seize power! But his name means nothing, his reputation means nothing, and there are no underlings to do his bidding. No-one kneels before a tyrant no-one knows. There are no bribes to levy, no families to threaten.
He must start over, and he must learn more about what he is and what he's becoming in order to gain the power he wants. He can leave the convoy, but then he'll be on his own in a hostile and unfamiliar place, unarmed, unprotected. The monsters of the wilds will not tame so easily to be his new power base.
It serves him (and us) to work with the convoy and not openly against it, learn what he can, share what he is willing to part with, not for any altruistic helpful nature but that it directly helps him build his own power back up. It has nothing to do with the greater good and everything to do with helping himself, or he gets nothing in return.
The more intelligent the criminal, the more likely it is he will understand if he wants to gain power here, he will have to cooperate and "play nice" for at least a while. It is very difficult for anyone to just trample their way through all adversity in this convoy. Even I would be hard pressed to subdue everyone here.
He may be scheming the entire time he's with us, he is not "a good person" and he will never act out of true altruism. But if he wants to eat, if he wants medical care, protection of the convoy, armanents and safety, then as he cannot take them by force anymore he will bend to the rules of civilization.
Aside from how long that got, counterthoughts?