[hr][center][h1][color=B8860B]Theo Callahan[/color][/h1][/center][center][hr] Solo Post[/center][hr]
[indent] Indeed Theo had his regrets, that has been admitted. Yet, if time could be reversed in an alternate dimension, the only thing that would change about Thrax's death would be the setting and the audience. If things were different, no one would speak of Thrax's death, but of his execution. With the proper ceremony, murder would be justice. How does one bring justice to the murderer? Publicize him as an executioner with a ceremony. Though, still there is no glory to the title of executioner. But give the high-skilled executioner a gun and throw him into a duel with his lesser-skilled opponent. And though this opponent equally bears a gun like the executioner, he not at all an equal. Who decided there to be a gun fight? Perhaps the opponent is a skilled swordsman or pugilist, and prefers a match according to his craft. Though does the executioner give a fair match to his opponent by dueling according to the opponent's skill set? No, because after all who made the rules of the duel? The executioner. Duels should not automatically be branded as a fair fight, since weapons are only tools, without the proper skill the tool is useless. Skill is the only think that equalizes the battlefield. How does one bring glory to the executioner? How does the executioner become the hero? Turn him into the seasoned gladiator against the ill-prepared slave. That, in Theo's eyes, was Reno Wylde, a gladiator disguised in an American western costume. 

He lectures Theo about fighting, that they cannot fight forever, yet right after that little speech, the Sheriff [i]warns[/i] Theo with a duel if another prisoner in the cells go missing. But what Reno called a warning, Theo saw as a threat. Yes, the Spartan King tolerated him at the moment, because he didn't feel intimated by the Sheriff. No, in all truth, Theo was inspired by him. Not only does Reno use heroic rhetoric to further develop this righteous persona, but Reno had strategy with his executions.

Theo was aware that he needed to be more refined with his strategy as Spartan King. His image was his reputation, and a bad reputation could result in being overthrown. So, he could not possibly let Thrax's death go without notice. Theo is not sorry that Thrax is now dead, but he is sorry that he could not publicize an execution or be like his First Sentinel and glorify himself in a duel. Thus after an hour so of war games, Theo returned his hounds to their kennels before making his way towards his room. Once inside his living quarters, Theo opened the dresser trunk positioned horizontally from his bed. Within this trunk were the armor pieces he wore during combat. He did not intend to suit up into the juggernaut he was, but simply grabbed for the black leather jacket he wore during the coldest winters. 

After slipping into the jacket Theo opened the right top drawer of his desk to take a special item- Thrax's hawk pin with the title "Captain" decorated below the metallic bird. There still laid the sticky stain of blood against the metal from when Theo busted his nose and let all contains droop down. Of course Theo would be sure to rip the pin off of Thrax before throwing him out into the center Colony Square, it was like a trophy piece to Theo. With that now pinned against his leather jacket, the Overseer emblem against Theodore Callahan's chest would be confirmation to all rumors that circulated around the topic of a dead Overseer Captain. Sure, he was not the ceremonial executioner or the glorified gladiator. But with the bloodied pin, Theo at least let it be known that the deed was done by his hands alone. [/indent]