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[dissemblance]

Can we all take a moment to admire the fact that 2801 technology still supports emoji functionality? 🤩 👍 🕷 💁 🩰 💫 🍆 🧊 💅 👁‍🗨 🎯 🤡 🔋 🐈 💲 🧙‍♀️ 🐦💋 🐜 👽 🕶 ⚡ 🕵🏻‍♀️ 💦 💦 💦

It seems like they're pretty set on calling us 'Hatchlings', so... hello, fellow Hatchlings, I'd like to play a game.

Two truths and a lie. I'll start.

  ① Starbucks makes the best lattes.
  ② I've never watched All Dogs Go To Heaven all the way through.
  ③ My birthdate is May 21st. What year? Every year. 😉😉😉 But my party in 2018 was 🔥🔥🔥.

Comments

[sunmon]

Fjerda has a king. Shu Han has a queen. Ravka has a king.

If you don't have a royal family, how do you decide who's next in line to rule?

[dissemblance]

How much time do you have? Because if I get into the fundamental concepts behind democracy, we could be here a while.

[sunmon]

How about the simplest version?
Five minutes.

[dissemblance]

（ and so roy doesn't have to mail tifa a giant sugar free gummi dick, natasha does in fact give a diligent five minute info-dump on direct versus representative democracy, the fundamental ethics of democratic responsibility, and all the fucking rest of it.

this handy little (written) speech, when spoken aloud, would clock in at around 4:54 seconds.

ya fuckin' welcome.

don't get her started on communism, alina. don't do it. ）

I FORGOT TO WRITE A REAL TAG TO THIS

[sunmon]

That sounds unstable.
I mean, even the Adamant has Captain Childe.

[dissemblance]

It can be.

I don't think there is a perfect system.

Power goes to people's heads, especially when they have it over other lives. It takes a rare person not to turn that into an abuse.

[sunmon]

[ oh too real ]

There must be some way to prevent it.
People don't always have a choice in the power they have.

[dissemblance]

It's not something you can prevent. It's a choice, and whether or not the person makes that choice is going to come down to how they were raised, what they believe and how power speaks to them.

It's not as easy as just putting out a PSA.

[sunmon]

You make it sound like people can't change. Like it's fate.

[dissemblance]

Oh, I happen to have it on very good authority that people can change.

But change generally comes about from a catalyst. Staying as you are is the easiest path. Power becomes comfortable the longer you have it, and the more comfortable you become with something the more you're likely to turn a blind eye to the ways it can be abused.

I'm not saying it's hopeless. I'm just saying you need to be mindful.

[sunmon]

You as in the rhetorical you. Obviously.

[ she'd never said anything about having power, but she can't help feeling like this person has narrowed their gaze on her anyway. ]

[dissemblance]

Obviously.