Group Intro

[oi_theoi]

Who: new kids
When: Day 51, evening
Where: shrine area
What: intros

[YES THESE AGAIN! at least the monkeys are gone]

[Tsuyukusa | Kayneth | Diarmuid (AU) | Sola-Ui]

Comments

[beautymark]

[ That hits hard. Visibly so, as he seems to crumple all at once. ]

...I can't will away these memories.

[retracing]

[yeeeep

sigh]

You think every noble idiot in the world is that way just because nothing's never challenged their beliefs?

[beautymark]

You don't know anything.

[retracing]

[haha]

I don't have to know your story to know the path of people. It's easy to believe or not believe in something naturally, like a child. It's believing despite opposition that forges the heart of a heroic spirit.

[beautymark]

...

[ He doesn't know what to say to that. He'd like to argue, but he can't work up the will to. ]

Perhaps my heart has changed too much.

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[gosh

i wonder what it must be like to not choose the shape of your own will

weird]

They can break like anything else. They can also be put back together, given new shape, so on.

[beautymark]

[ He has no response. A broken heart is accurate, and putting it back together... well. Maybe. ]

...

[retracing]

[sometimes i'm glad i'm not a real person]

Your ideals are idiotic, but not for the reasons you think. Your excuse is the world. "The wrong time, the wrong master", but the ideals themselves are still right and good in your mind. I don't know how many times I've killed fools seeking to follow their honor to the destruction of anything that stands against them. People with pride like that are the ones most likely to never understand that they aren't supporting what is 'right' just what they know and love best.

But one more fool in the world isn't going to end it any more than the last several thousand did. If your choices are between miserable half-belief and stubborn happy naivete, why are you even hesitating?

[beautymark]

[ listens to all of that quietly, without protest

afterwards though, he gives a bitter smile ]

You've still got me wrong. It wouldn't matter if the master was different. It's my own weakness that I've learned of, and I can't--

[ nope, totally not tearing up ]

I can't blink and go back to the way I was before.

[retracing]

[oh god i'm making a saber cry

not sure if proud or disappoint

my life]

You're a heroic spirit. There's no one in the world better suited to bullheadedly ignore the facts that make your ideals impossible.

[beautymark]

[ four years ago, he'd have agreed and laughed about it

now, he just shakes his head and tries not to crack too much ]

...I think we've said more than enough, for strangers.

[retracing]

[ugh

maybe i will just send my saber at you

why isn't my old self around to fix people's heart things. asshole]

Giving up again? That becomes a habit, you know.

[sparkling the fuck out, though]