Fandom no. 5 The Lone Ranger
Jun. 22nd, 2005 08:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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There are times when I almost awaken from this madness, when my brother's blood cries in the darkest part of night for vengeance instead of the fragile gimcrackery which passes for justice in this half-broken land.
But the pledge I made my blood-brother is enough to lull me back into sleep. A hundred promises to his people might be broken, but never mine to him. "Law over lynching," he said to me, "Justice for all," as he forged six silver bullets. I shall never take a life with one, lest his dream shatter.
Our dreams are better than we are.
* Not many people realize it, but according to the books by Fran Striker and the earliest radio programs, the mask and the silver bullets were both Tonto's idea. The mask to hide him from the Cavendish gang until he could round them up, and the silver bullets as a promise to never shoot to kill another human being. But the Lone Ranger did catch the horse...
There are times when I almost awaken from this madness, when my brother's blood cries in the darkest part of night for vengeance instead of the fragile gimcrackery which passes for justice in this half-broken land.
But the pledge I made my blood-brother is enough to lull me back into sleep. A hundred promises to his people might be broken, but never mine to him. "Law over lynching," he said to me, "Justice for all," as he forged six silver bullets. I shall never take a life with one, lest his dream shatter.
Our dreams are better than we are.
* Not many people realize it, but according to the books by Fran Striker and the earliest radio programs, the mask and the silver bullets were both Tonto's idea. The mask to hide him from the Cavendish gang until he could round them up, and the silver bullets as a promise to never shoot to kill another human being. But the Lone Ranger did catch the horse...
