Enobaria: So you want me to pretend make friends with the alliance, and then kill them.
Boudicca: I want you to actually make friends with the alliance, and then kill them.
Boudicca: I want you to actually make friends with the alliance, and then kill them.
Did you know they wanted to kill me? I did. I knew it even before they did.
—Harry Roat, Jr., Wait Until Dark
"The Legitimacy Kingdom and Information Alliance had been enemies from the beginning. Trust and betrayal were never on the table. So it was only natural for Dorothea’s group to slaughter Qwenthur’s group in order to wipe clean this inconvenient situation."
— Heavy Object, when an Enemy Mine situation breaks down
Lord Refa: Why? Why would you do this?
Ambassador Londo Mollari: To ensure your cooperation. And because sooner or later you would do it to me. Poison was always the instrument of choice in the old republic and, being something of a sentimentalist, I got here first.
Ambassador Londo Mollari: To ensure your cooperation. And because sooner or later you would do it to me. Poison was always the instrument of choice in the old republic and, being something of a sentimentalist, I got here first.
Colonel Carter: In forging this alliance, you must know that one day we will be on opposite sides again.
"Todd" the Wraith: Yes... but not today.
"Todd" the Wraith: Yes... but not today.
Campanella: The governor general made a deal with Heiyue to keep the SSS and bracers busy so he could finish his business here in peace. We know they'll betray us eventually, of course. But you can't play in the gutter if you're afraid to get dirty. And what harm's a betrayal if you know it's inevitable?
Campanella: Besides, someone might have seen to it that their group can wipe out Heiyue and the SSS all at once. *takes a suggestive side glance at Lechter, the governor general's subordinate*
Major Lechter: ...No comment.
Charnel: It is just you and I now, Stratos. Perhaps it is time we put our lies away.
Stratos: Agreed. We both knew this alliance would end, and we've both been preparing for it. Now let's see which of us has miscalculated.
You naturally will doublecross your accomplice, just as you assume [Vriska Serket] has plans to doublecross you. You assume she is assuming the same of you. Business as usual for blue bloods.
— Equius Zahhak's internal narration, Homestuck
