#she does sometimes ambush or trick ninja 100% to rob them for supplies/money because in her POV they're fair targets

[mixelation]

How often is Jigsaw, sorry Tori, trapping people in barrier death traps that slowly deplete on oxygen or boil the victim alive versus just getting people with the classic ‘Touch to instantly die’ seals. Is Tori a ninja serial killer?

see, from tori's POV, she's doing a bunch of things that feel like completely natural escalations. there's a ninja squatting on your farm and you'd feed her for a week if she got him to go away? it's okay, she can set up a barrier run on trees that will effectively last as long as the tree lives.... oh no, actually, there's now no way to let this guy go without risking him retaliating on her/other civilians and just going back to what he was doing. guess she'll leave him for dead? or maybe it's more merciful to kill this guy outright, except he's trapped in a barrier. well, she can make a vacuum inside by manipulating temperature, right? oh no, that didn't work? okay well here's a death seal you can use, enemy ninja, if you don't want to starve to death. she's going to workshop the vacuum seal now because it's bothering her it didn't work, don't mind her. oh you went for the death seal? cool, the people she's been staying with were starting to hint she should leave, and now she can use your pocket change to buy her own food and can move on assured that her nice hosts are safe :)

but then from the outside it looks like "she trapped him, spent a few days fucking around in front of him while he desperately tried to escape, until he killed himself and she was like 'oh well, free stuff!' and looted his corpse"

#she does sometimes ambush or trick ninja 100% to rob them for supplies/money because in her POV they're fair targets #and usually she'll try nonviolent methods but also sometimes if her plan goes wrong she DOES end up hurting/killing people in defense #but she rarely STARTS OFF thinking she's going to kill someone #sometimes it just turns out to be the only solution she can swing safely??? #like trapping a dangerous bug in a cup and then being like 'wait this thing could KILL me' and killing it instead of releasing it outside #asynchronicity