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Reputation Chapter 9 - Some Reassembly Required
We finally meet the good doctor again for some good news.
I posted this so soon after the last one since it's a short chapter, and it clears up some questions that may be lingering after the last one. The next chapter is another decently long one so it'll be a few days off.
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A big thanks to the immensely talented
Rabid_Aardvark for his help editing.
This story is set in the same universe as
Hetzer's amazing integration series, if you haven't already, go check out his amazing stories here https://www.furaffinity.net/view/12573381/
I posted this so soon after the last one since it's a short chapter, and it clears up some questions that may be lingering after the last one. The next chapter is another decently long one so it'll be a few days off.
<<< PREV | FIRST | NEXT >>>
A big thanks to the immensely talented
Rabid_Aardvark for his help editing.This story is set in the same universe as
Hetzer's amazing integration series, if you haven't already, go check out his amazing stories here https://www.furaffinity.net/view/12573381/
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It's understandable that he'd want to discuss it more, but Debra doesn't want Jamie to linger on it too much, plus Jamie had already been briefed on what happened to them by Captain Haynes after he eventually calmed down. He has every right to be angry, but he wasn't born an angry person. Anger can certainly be useful in the right circumstance, for example when imprisoned in his own room, that anger lead him to break free using his engineering skills. But now that they have both been punished and he can move on with his life free from their abuse, she wants to see him return to the easy going and good natured person he was before.
from Cambridge dictionary, forgive: to stop being angry with someone who has done something wrong
absolve: to officially remove guilt or responsibility for something wrong that someone has done or might have done
Forgiveness is, at least by dictionary definition (which is what Debra Wu always goes by) the act of letting go of anger and condemnation of someone, without pardoning or condoning their crime. Acceptance may be softer, but it also implies a certain degree of "acceptability", and such things aren't acceptable. Debra doesn't want Jamie to stay an angry, bitter person, she wants him to move on with his life, she fully acknowledges that Sashana and Haynes were terrible people who treated him horrendously, but her job is to help Jamie live a happy life free from lingering trauma or feelings of victimhood. We already saw that he wasn't an angry person before Sashana, he was easy to fluster perhaps, but he was always supportive and easy going with his friends. In the hospital we saw that anger make him lash out at not only those who just wanted to help, but also at Sean too.
absolve: to officially remove guilt or responsibility for something wrong that someone has done or might have done
Forgiveness is, at least by dictionary definition (which is what Debra Wu always goes by) the act of letting go of anger and condemnation of someone, without pardoning or condoning their crime. Acceptance may be softer, but it also implies a certain degree of "acceptability", and such things aren't acceptable. Debra doesn't want Jamie to stay an angry, bitter person, she wants him to move on with his life, she fully acknowledges that Sashana and Haynes were terrible people who treated him horrendously, but her job is to help Jamie live a happy life free from lingering trauma or feelings of victimhood. We already saw that he wasn't an angry person before Sashana, he was easy to fluster perhaps, but he was always supportive and easy going with his friends. In the hospital we saw that anger make him lash out at not only those who just wanted to help, but also at Sean too.
I acknowledge that that may be the technical, dictionary definition of the word, and I'm all for him moving on with his life, I'm just not personally comfortable with the use of that word itself in the context of what happened.
Sorry, didn't mean to come across as though you're wrong to write it that way, or something. I'm just saying, if it were me in that situation, I doubt I would be able to use that word to describe merely the act of "moving on". It's probably just me, it's probably just semantics and the way I was brought up thinking that word meant something stronger than the official definition.
Sorry, didn't mean to come across as though you're wrong to write it that way, or something. I'm just saying, if it were me in that situation, I doubt I would be able to use that word to describe merely the act of "moving on". It's probably just me, it's probably just semantics and the way I was brought up thinking that word meant something stronger than the official definition.
I actually talked to a friend about this after seeing comments on the subject here, and I sincerely believe this is a cultural difference. I'm Scottish (Jamie and Sean are based on myself and various people I've known/grew up with), and here forgiveness doesn't have quite the same implication as it does in say The States or Canada. And Doctor Wu is an English citizen of Korean descent, so it has a different context to her too.
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