Monarchies with active ability to be highest decision making office. Not that things get to them all that often, but they can and do pass biggest judgements, as they choose.
Mm, it's felt that way to me, too. Like it's a struggle for people to hold power without falling into thinking you know best, or should be allowed to do as you wish without consequence. Just because you're stronger.
[It's obvious that Ciri's intelligent and perceptive despite her young age. But there's something about the way she speaks about this that feels almost... personal.
Capable as she is? Yujin does worry for her.]
It sounds as though it's something you're familiar with. Are you facing a war, in your home world?
Endless wars, it feels like. There's more than one happening, but the bigger one... has been on pause for a little. Since the last big push that left so many dead. It'll start again. Other ones have been happening, so I hear, but not as big as that one. Yet.
A civil war occurred in my country when I was a bit younger than you are now. But Japan is merely a small nation in a much larger world. There are, it seems, countless small wars occurring in every corner of the globe... Every country wants to stake its claim on as big a piece of the world as it can get.
[Including Japan, he thinks uneasily.]
In light of what we just experienced, it all feels even more futile.
Isn't life what we make of the time ahead of death? Unknowing when that ending comes, only that it will.
( she sounds more philosophical than she feels. the loss of a world, of all the lives, sapient and not, on it... it's still too exhausting, the process of saving who they could, for her to sum up the energy to really let herself feel. not when it's slammed down over her like a tidal wave of inescapable death. )
We're not problem solvers here. I wonder how many of us can be back home.
[He, too, is still caught in his own maelstrom of feelings to say much more. The death is overwhelming. The inevitability of it-- even the peace in it-- is overwhelming, too.]
But I think that's a consideration for later, my dear. We've [a beat; he's trying to work out how to word it politely.] endured quite a lot. And the mind must rest as well as the body.
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Mm, it's felt that way to me, too. Like it's a struggle for people to hold power without falling into thinking you know best, or should be allowed to do as you wish without consequence. Just because you're stronger.
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[It's obvious that Ciri's intelligent and perceptive despite her young age. But there's something about the way she speaks about this that feels almost... personal.
Capable as she is? Yujin does worry for her.]
It sounds as though it's something you're familiar with. Are you facing a war, in your home world?
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What about in your world?
cw even more obvious war/imperialism mentions
[Including Japan, he thinks uneasily.]
In light of what we just experienced, it all feels even more futile.
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( she sounds more philosophical than she feels. the loss of a world, of all the lives, sapient and not, on it... it's still too exhausting, the process of saving who they could, for her to sum up the energy to really let herself feel. not when it's slammed down over her like a tidal wave of inescapable death. )
We're not problem solvers here. I wonder how many of us can be back home.
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[He, too, is still caught in his own maelstrom of feelings to say much more. The death is overwhelming. The inevitability of it-- even the peace in it-- is overwhelming, too.]
But I think that's a consideration for later, my dear. We've [a beat; he's trying to work out how to word it politely.] endured quite a lot. And the mind must rest as well as the body.