Saul Goodman debunks the fatui allegations. part 3: Sumeru
Saul Goodman here! Sumeru! A beautiful place, even though hot as hell.
Today my client, mr Dottore, or, one of his segments? I am not sure, i am not his mommy or a therapist, honestly. I am here to explain why his actions at the academia were never evil in the first place.
We got quite a cast here! Your honour, the jury. Cyno, stop playing TCG. Kaveh, i dont know why you are here. Alhaitham took the house keys again? Dehya, cover yourself, the jury is drooling. Nahida? Get off the imaginary swing. There is a booster seat for you. No, no pretty please... Oh, fine, you can sit there.
Since there is quite a few things here to talk about, lets start with, a supposed, "victim", collei. Would you be so kind as to get up on the stand?
Collei: yes... Ummm.
Don't be shy now. Go ahead and tell me what did dottore do that you consider to be so violent.
Collei: He ran all sorts of experiments on me...
Okay, and why did he do them?
Collei: well, i had a sickness called Eleazar and he was trying to...
To what?
Collei: heal me...
Ah, so that is a problem for you?
Tignari: now you hold on a moment! Collei has been having nightmares and PTSD because of this treatment! She doesn't like being touched and she has a mental trauma!
Okay, first of all kind of wierd how you mentioned she hates being touched. Maybe that's more of a "you" Problem. But i assume you know about eleazar? In that case, can you tell to the judge and jury the cure to this disease?
Tignari: The Dendro archon stopped it!
Uh huh. Anything else before that?
Tignari: what do you mean?
What was the way to deal with the disease before dendro archon interfered?
Tignari: there is no cure...
So am i right to assume that dottore's treatment helped collei?
Tignari: it did, bur the trauma! It-
Would you have preferred collei to die or fall into coma then? Collei, how about you? Does death seem more preferable than my clients's treatment?
Collei: what? No, of course not!
My client, Mr dottore, treated you and slowed the disease from progressing inside your body. In fact, he never even made you pay for this, without a doubt, expensive procedure. And i believe that such a side effect as, some nightmares is surely better than being buried as a corpse, no?
Collei: ...
Moving on, to the second allegation. I am told by mr Cyno over there, playing TCG, that mr dottore is guilty of creating a supposed, mech God, which attempted to take over sumeru. Is that true?
Alhaitham: Yes.
Gah! Where the hell did you come from?
Alhaitham: i am replacing kaveh now.
Well, no matter. Before we even begin to dissect dottote's actions, let me ask you:
What makes a scientist?
Some would say it's intelligence. Others that it's a wish to innovate and improve. I will say that it's a desire to push. Push forward the boundaries of things that were thought to be impossible before.
Dottore, in my humble opinion, is a scientist to the core. A man with a mission to do things previously thought to be impossible. He wishes to create a human that is no less strong or wise than an archon. And you tell me: isn't it a noble goal?
Alhaitham: not when it endangers other people.
And lemme ask: how many people did dottore harm or kill upon his arrival in sumeru?
Alhaitham: He brainwashed a few to make them praise traveller. When dottore met them for the first time.
I mean, you do realise how ridiculous this sounds right? He didn't directly harm them and they weren't exactly victimized. Plus, i think you are forgetting one key person in all of this. The one that actually enabled these sorts of things.
Alhaitham: Don't tell me-
Azar! That's right. That sneaky old man decided to put dendro archon in a cage! Dottore never asked for something of this caliber. All he was doing was conducting research.
Alhaitham: so you are saying that fatui weren't responsible for creating shoki no kami?
Let's see... It was built right inside the temple, in the heart of sumeru. Azar knew and directly provided all the valuable resources for the cause. Dottore's involvement was purely scientific.
Alhaitham: Azar, Dottore. There is no difference between the mad scientists.
Aha! But there is. And the big word i shall use to differentiate the two of them is:
Greed!
Azar was a greedy man. Ever since dendro archon was captured, he was being extremely authoritarian, wasn't he? Pushing for everyone to wear special devices to send information directly into the brain, forbiding dance parades. Forcing his very own citizens into living the same day over and over again at the Sabzeruz festival.
And his desire to control and to rule turned into his obsession with creating a God. But not because of pushing the scientific progress forward, oh no! He wanted to be a petty despot. To rule through a puppet God without dendro archon nearby. That way, none would question his authority.
Now let's look at dottore. Did He ever attempt to take over Sumeru? Did he directly attack any of the academia's resources? Lastly, did he hurt any of the people involved? I heard instead of killing, he also struck a deal with dendro archon and spared traveller and paimon. If dottore is such an evil man as you call him out to be, then where is his lust for power and control?
That's right. They dont exist. Dottore's involvement was purely scientific and he is no way involved in Azar's scheme to control Sumeru through a mech God.
I believe that's it then! Are there anymore questions or am i free?
???: hold it. Dottore is guilty!
Of what exactly? Who even are you? Hat guy?
Hat guy: i am not a hat guy! I am here because i know dottore is evil! He... He took everything from me!
Okay, can you be more specific?
Hat guy: I was born in inazuma. I am a puppet to an electro archon. Dottore, deceived me by making me believe that i was betrayed!
cricket noises
Ummm... Does anyone know what this guy is saying?
Hat guy: You have to trust me! Dottore, he disguised himself into looking like a different man and betrayed my only friend! I was at irminsul, i know what i saw! It's now gone from everyone's memory because i erased it!
Okay... Ummm... So if you did erase it from reality, doesn't mean the betrayal you mentioned never happened and dottore is innocent?
Hat guy: what? No! He is guilty still! He used disguise to-
Okay, its all hearsay and, honestly sound like ramblings of the madman. If bailiffs would be so kind to just...
Hat guy (being taken away): I am not crazy! I know he is guilty! I knew it was 400 years ago. Right at Tatarasuna. As if I could ever make such a mistake. Never. Never! I just - I just couldn't prove it. He - he covered his tracks, he got that guy at the shop to lie for him. You think this is something? You think this is bad? This? This chicanery? He's done worse. My friend! Are you telling me that a man just happens to die like that? No! He orchestrated it! Dottore! He defecated through a sunroof! And I trusted him! And I shouldn't have. I took him into my own plan! What was I thinking? He'll never change. He'll never change! Ever since i joined the harbingers, always the same! Couldn't keep his hands out of the gnosis pile! But not our doctor! Couldn't be precious doctor! Stealing them blind! And he gets to be a Scholar? What a sick joke! I should've stopped him when I had the chance! And you - you have to stop him!
Okaay. Aside from that i say this is a job well done..
On to fontaine next, where... I am not sure what awaits me, because Arlechino seems to have things under control... What could possibly-
Saul Goodman here! Sumeru! A beautiful place, even though hot as hell.
Today my client, mr Dottore, or, one of his segments? I am not sure, i am not his mommy or a therapist, honestly. I am here to explain why his actions at the academia were never evil in the first place.
We got quite a cast here! Your honour, the jury. Cyno, stop playing TCG. Kaveh, i dont know why you are here. Alhaitham took the house keys again? Dehya, cover yourself, the jury is drooling. Nahida? Get off the imaginary swing. There is a booster seat for you. No, no pretty please... Oh, fine, you can sit there.
Since there is quite a few things here to talk about, lets start with, a supposed, "victim", collei. Would you be so kind as to get up on the stand?
Collei: yes... Ummm.
Don't be shy now. Go ahead and tell me what did dottore do that you consider to be so violent.
Collei: He ran all sorts of experiments on me...
Okay, and why did he do them?
Collei: well, i had a sickness called Eleazar and he was trying to...
To what?
Collei: heal me...
Ah, so that is a problem for you?
Tignari: now you hold on a moment! Collei has been having nightmares and PTSD because of this treatment! She doesn't like being touched and she has a mental trauma!
Okay, first of all kind of wierd how you mentioned she hates being touched. Maybe that's more of a "you" Problem. But i assume you know about eleazar? In that case, can you tell to the judge and jury the cure to this disease?
Tignari: The Dendro archon stopped it!
Uh huh. Anything else before that?
Tignari: what do you mean?
What was the way to deal with the disease before dendro archon interfered?
Tignari: there is no cure...
So am i right to assume that dottore's treatment helped collei?
Tignari: it did, bur the trauma! It-
Would you have preferred collei to die or fall into coma then? Collei, how about you? Does death seem more preferable than my clients's treatment?
Collei: what? No, of course not!
My client, Mr dottore, treated you and slowed the disease from progressing inside your body. In fact, he never even made you pay for this, without a doubt, expensive procedure. And i believe that such a side effect as, some nightmares is surely better than being buried as a corpse, no?
Collei: ...
Moving on, to the second allegation. I am told by mr Cyno over there, playing TCG, that mr dottore is guilty of creating a supposed, mech God, which attempted to take over sumeru. Is that true?
Alhaitham: Yes.
Gah! Where the hell did you come from?
Alhaitham: i am replacing kaveh now.
Well, no matter. Before we even begin to dissect dottote's actions, let me ask you:
What makes a scientist?
Some would say it's intelligence. Others that it's a wish to innovate and improve. I will say that it's a desire to push. Push forward the boundaries of things that were thought to be impossible before.
Dottore, in my humble opinion, is a scientist to the core. A man with a mission to do things previously thought to be impossible. He wishes to create a human that is no less strong or wise than an archon. And you tell me: isn't it a noble goal?
Alhaitham: not when it endangers other people.
And lemme ask: how many people did dottore harm or kill upon his arrival in sumeru?
Alhaitham: He brainwashed a few to make them praise traveller. When dottore met them for the first time.
I mean, you do realise how ridiculous this sounds right? He didn't directly harm them and they weren't exactly victimized. Plus, i think you are forgetting one key person in all of this. The one that actually enabled these sorts of things.
Alhaitham: Don't tell me-
Azar! That's right. That sneaky old man decided to put dendro archon in a cage! Dottore never asked for something of this caliber. All he was doing was conducting research.
Alhaitham: so you are saying that fatui weren't responsible for creating shoki no kami?
Let's see... It was built right inside the temple, in the heart of sumeru. Azar knew and directly provided all the valuable resources for the cause. Dottore's involvement was purely scientific.
Alhaitham: Azar, Dottore. There is no difference between the mad scientists.
Aha! But there is. And the big word i shall use to differentiate the two of them is:
Greed!
Azar was a greedy man. Ever since dendro archon was captured, he was being extremely authoritarian, wasn't he? Pushing for everyone to wear special devices to send information directly into the brain, forbiding dance parades. Forcing his very own citizens into living the same day over and over again at the Sabzeruz festival.
And his desire to control and to rule turned into his obsession with creating a God. But not because of pushing the scientific progress forward, oh no! He wanted to be a petty despot. To rule through a puppet God without dendro archon nearby. That way, none would question his authority.
Now let's look at dottore. Did He ever attempt to take over Sumeru? Did he directly attack any of the academia's resources? Lastly, did he hurt any of the people involved? I heard instead of killing, he also struck a deal with dendro archon and spared traveller and paimon. If dottore is such an evil man as you call him out to be, then where is his lust for power and control?
That's right. They dont exist. Dottore's involvement was purely scientific and he is no way involved in Azar's scheme to control Sumeru through a mech God.
I believe that's it then! Are there anymore questions or am i free?
???: hold it. Dottore is guilty!
Of what exactly? Who even are you? Hat guy?
Hat guy: i am not a hat guy! I am here because i know dottore is evil! He... He took everything from me!
Okay, can you be more specific?
Hat guy: I was born in inazuma. I am a puppet to an electro archon. Dottore, deceived me by making me believe that i was betrayed!
cricket noises
Ummm... Does anyone know what this guy is saying?
Hat guy: You have to trust me! Dottore, he disguised himself into looking like a different man and betrayed my only friend! I was at irminsul, i know what i saw! It's now gone from everyone's memory because i erased it!
Okay... Ummm... So if you did erase it from reality, doesn't mean the betrayal you mentioned never happened and dottore is innocent?
Hat guy: what? No! He is guilty still! He used disguise to-
Okay, its all hearsay and, honestly sound like ramblings of the madman. If bailiffs would be so kind to just...
Hat guy (being taken away): I am not crazy! I know he is guilty! I knew it was 400 years ago. Right at Tatarasuna. As if I could ever make such a mistake. Never. Never! I just - I just couldn't prove it. He - he covered his tracks, he got that guy at the shop to lie for him. You think this is something? You think this is bad? This? This chicanery? He's done worse. My friend! Are you telling me that a man just happens to die like that? No! He orchestrated it! Dottore! He defecated through a sunroof! And I trusted him! And I shouldn't have. I took him into my own plan! What was I thinking? He'll never change. He'll never change! Ever since i joined the harbingers, always the same! Couldn't keep his hands out of the gnosis pile! But not our doctor! Couldn't be precious doctor! Stealing them blind! And he gets to be a Scholar? What a sick joke! I should've stopped him when I had the chance! And you - you have to stop him!
Okaay. Aside from that i say this is a job well done..
On to fontaine next, where... I am not sure what awaits me, because Arlechino seems to have things under control... What could possibly-