Talk:Narinki/@comment-2A00:23C5:11A1:3900:1825:33FB:9427:480-20190818141705

'Recruits his own army'- surely a mercenary squad of barely twenty hardly qualifies. With his status as a key sponsor of the Hero Association, surely he must have had some idea of the capability of the monsters and how long a group of 'ordinary' humans in stolen power armour would last. If anything it looks more like a token gesture, to be seen to be doing something and his tears are insincere.

Like that scene in Transmetropolitan when president Callahan's wife and kid is killed in a car crash and he cries in front of the cameras. But it is later revealed that he had them killed and staged the entire thing in a cynical ploy to get sympathy votes in the impending election.

After all, that amount of money would be very little compared to the reflected PR, sympathy and resulting political gains that he could get irrespective of the outcome. Who is to say that he did not deliberately and knowingly put his son in danger for this very reason?

If he was truly serious about protecting his genetic legacy, he would have been more pragmatic and done the following:

1) Made concessions to the Monser Association- in either the monsters would release him or more likely they would know how desparate he is and request more favours.

Such favours could be: witholding funding to the Hero Association altogether thus drastiically limiting their capabilities; launching a negative PR campaign against the Hero Association that would have the effect of alienating them from the general public and putting off potential investors; forming a rival organisation and lobbying for legislation that would restrict the kinds of actions that the Hero Association could perform.

However, this would ultimately alienate him from the public and the HA.

2) Made a prisoner exchange or some other diplomatic gesture and form a non-agression pact: again this would be risky but for altogether different reasons. That and there would be discontent from the heroes at the implied legitimacy of the MA. However, there are various ways he could spin this in a positive light for example if he portrays himself as a non-violent pacifist or some kind of peacemaker, using political language like "unity", "forgiveness" and "progress".

Such an act could earn him favour and whoever breaks this treaty/pact (more than likely the MA though I can imagine there would be some heroes that are pretty bellicose) would be seen as the agressor.

3) Make multiple children that way even if one or 2 are captured or killed, someone will inherit the family fortune.