thusia | (no subject)

Gods, too?

[ SHEESH??? ]

How are they deciding who to take, anyway?

The world did die eventually and with it, so did they.

It really is a good question. I couldn't even begin to guess.

[ sssubject change ]

- So it's really just the one person for you, huh? Though I guess having people familiar with your world must make some things easier, too...

[Nods.] She recently arrived. It is...surprisingly comforting.

But so is an apartment full of kind people.

Good.

Did you like it? Delphinus?

[She pauses, giving it serious thought for a minute.]

...yes. Sometimes people were too stuffy and really far too serious. But there was a lot of people who had a chance to find a good life. And the people I knew were so very kind.

Life was simple, but I loved those times the most. [When she wasn't going crazy, anyway.]

[ mild jealousy, spikes somewhat at "chance to find a good life" ]

Wish I could have seen it for myself.

Hmm, I'm glad to hear that.

And what about your home? What was it like?

Spent most of my life watching it go to hell and died right as it might have finally started getting better.

[ heaps and layers of bitterness, guilt, (hope), annoyance...?, slight homesickness ]

But I wasn't given much of a grand viewpoint to begin with, anyway.

[Oh, that was a lot of feelings.]

But even in the roughest life, there was always something good though, right?

I can't exactly credit that to Balbadd.

[ longing ]

Somehow, though, I loved my country, even though I hated nearly everything about it.

[ back to bitternessss ]

[So many conflicting feelings.]

Hmm, well, it was your home, regardless of the circumstances you lived in.

[ I suck at straightforward feelings, I always just have all the emotions at once ]

Yeah. Just wish someone had toppled the monarchy a lot sooner.

[ flips through bitterness-pride (for someone else)-guilt-anger-worry-fury-anticipation pretty rapidly one at a time, none of this is showing on his face or in his tone ]

It'll probably be a nice place as a republic.

[ interwoven hope and irritated cynicism all through that sentence. ]

[So many feelings. I really hadn't been feeling the wide range lately.]

A coup then.

Hm, I think you're right. A land fought for by it's people is often treasured.

A long overdue one.

[ satisfactionnnn but ]

... Yeah. Most people felt that way, that it was a good country with everything wrong with it, so of course they'd want to fix it.

[ and the self-loathing is nearly enough to show on his face. ]

...

[There's a pause, looking at his face.] Did you?

Of course.

[ spike of paranoia, selfhateselfhateselfhateselfhate ]

I grew up in the slums. The government didn't even think of us as people. No one should have to live that way, let alone most of a country's population.

[ potentially healthier shift to government hate? vague disappointment, more bitterness ]

...no, they shouldn't. They should be more responsible than that.

The only people who didn't want to change that were the nobility.

[ bitter again, vaguely smug(?), irritated... ]

That is usually the way. Those in power would never want to give it up.

[ calmer, slightly pleased... ]

Mm.

'S why I'm not too keen on the kids trying to set up laws here.

Set up laws?

...oh, I did hear something about that.

[There's a pause.] You're that worried about it?

They're not being unreasonable about it yet, but you can't blame me for being wary of it.

[ negative expectations, but more irritation than worry ]

...I think it will work out.

There's a good part of our population that suffered under tyranny. They would want to avoid it at all costs.

But no, I can't blame you for being wary. And wary is good. As long as it's wariness and not assumption, then it helps keep the system healthy.

[ mooore self-hate ]

If power's spread out enough and those people have a voice, that's one thing, but this looks like it's being organized by two people, and they both seem pretty confident in their ability to uphold their rules.