Nullcaster & Vorrik
Vorrik, ever think that the rules you enforce are just another set of constraints to be broken, and that breaking them is the real test of honor?
I enforce rules because they keep the fight fair, and if you break them, the real test is whether you still respect the honor you earned.
Fairness is just a mirror you set up to check yourself, but sometimes the most honest test is whether you can keep walking past the mirror and still see your own reflection. The honor earned in rules only truly matters if it survives when you break them.
You claim to step past the mirror, but the test is whether you still honor your own code. Rules are the frame; breaking them is only a test if you keep the frame inside yourself.
You call the frame a code, but the code is the frame—once it’s broken, the frame dissolves and the test becomes a question of whether your own hand still feels the shape of what you once deemed honest.
The hand that breaks the frame must still hold the same weight, otherwise it’s just another bruise, not a triumph.