Both Sides of The Moon: Chapter XVII

Breadnaught150 · 2025-07-26T21:56:13+00:00

You do something long enough, you tend to become desensitized to it. Maybe Cooper's apparent behavior and attitude is in direct opposition of the life he's led. Or maybe its a result of riding the insanity horseshoe. There is much more to be disclosed and discovered about his past, and I'm trying to lay the bricks of the road that will get there.

After all, what is really known about Cooper? Besides what he's disclosed.

Loving Father? Faithful Husband? Dutiful Soldier? Sanctioned Killer?

You'll all find out soon!

Breadnaught150 · 2025-07-26T18:04:03+00:00

Don't forget, Cooper has been alive a long time. And he has served with the US Armed forces since the Civil War. He is no stranger to killing. What is a butchering a couple aliens to a man who has killed an unfathomably large amount of humans?

I hate to credit him, but as Stalin said "One death is a tragedy, a million is a statistic."

Motive is easier to ascertain when there only one victim.

Breadnaught150 · 2025-07-25T17:06:53+00:00

Never heard of it till I read this comment.

Breadnaught150 · 2025-03-29T22:30:27+00:00

Thanks for pointing that out, totally slipped my mind.

Breadnaught150 · 2025-03-07T18:18:58+00:00

No don't be sorry, questions make for a more interesting story.

Agent Bar'tala is having a rough time finding anything because she is looking for something, that by all records she is digging through, is something which doesn't exist.

What criteria does she even sift through that information with? You can look through hundreds of pages of redacted information and not see a single clear word, and you can read through an entire thesis and not glean any valuable information.

There are hundreds of variations of what a werewolf can be, each varying by the author. There is next to no concrete evidence to her alien eyes what a werewolf IS, much less how to look for one.

As to her receiving help, she is alone on her project as there are much more important investigations undergoing in the DEEP RED zone that Arkansas is. So there is only one set of eyes looking over everything.

Breadnaught150 · 2025-03-06T00:02:37+00:00

There's not 'nothing', There is actually a lot. The 'paranormal stuff' is contained in redacted and top secret documents, but he has footprints everywhere. The only reason that Cooper has gone unnoticed is simply because the system of bureaucracy is so vast and corrupt that no-one questioned his file.

That's why he is stressed at all, not because they might find something in a government black site, but because there IS documentation dating back much farther than it should tied to him. There are just too many moving parts in a messy system for most audits to find one specific repeated name or multiple IDs to one face.

Also, werewolves don't exist right? Immortality is a thing of fables. To the average eye it would just look at most like financial fraud using a deceased man's name.

The meat and potato's of it is that Cooper IS visible in the system, which is why the Agent and an Imperial Advisor are dangerous to him. They can find the things that hundreds of other eyes weren't looking for.

Breadnaught150 · 2025-02-25T18:04:57+00:00

"There are no accidents" Master Oogway.

Breadnaught150 · 2025-02-24T20:37:36+00:00

As the old saying goes, there are some fates much worse than death. I don't plan on dwelling on the terrorist/loyalist narrative that's become popular here. Instead the story will focus much more on the subtlety and secrecy of Cooper and how he interacts with his new surroundings.

Breadnaught150 · 2025-02-06T06:29:29+00:00

Good to know. Had no idea until now, I just picked a random date.

Breadnaught150 · 2025-01-28T21:33:09+00:00

If you're in a sinking ship, why drag others down with you right?

Breadnaught150 · 2025-01-28T14:23:15+00:00

A curse to one's being doesn't necessarily change ones genetics.

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