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synopsychic2017-05-02 05:53 pm
all_onis_are_true) wrote in synopsychic2017-05-02 05:53 pm
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The irony of this is astounding
Excuse me... ah, I believe I am using this properly?
My name is Hiroshi Yamane. I thought it prudent to inform the rest of the Travellers that a young man - a Prince, I believe - has been attempting to recruit young men and women to serve as priests and priestesses under the idea that the Goddess Hebe will be able to help resolve this incident. I myself have my doubts, but at the same time I feel that if I allow myself to be recruited, I may be able to better understand what else may be going on beyond what we know of the Titans and the Gods themselves. That said, I admit I am still very new to this, ah, "investigating" process, and if anybody should desire that I look into anything in particular as I work towards this endeavor, I am more than willing to listen to suggestions.
Thank you for your time.
My name is Hiroshi Yamane. I thought it prudent to inform the rest of the Travellers that a young man - a Prince, I believe - has been attempting to recruit young men and women to serve as priests and priestesses under the idea that the Goddess Hebe will be able to help resolve this incident. I myself have my doubts, but at the same time I feel that if I allow myself to be recruited, I may be able to better understand what else may be going on beyond what we know of the Titans and the Gods themselves. That said, I admit I am still very new to this, ah, "investigating" process, and if anybody should desire that I look into anything in particular as I work towards this endeavor, I am more than willing to listen to suggestions.
Thank you for your time.
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At any rate, I have... a feeling. A feeling that this is where I should be going.
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Really? A feeling? Because a moment ago you were talking about doubts...
[Gah, humans are confusing.]
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Mostly, they are doubts as to how much one goddess can achieve. But as for my feelings, it is less about the Goddess herself and more about the man recruiting. I... cannot explain it, I am afraid.
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Fear tells us there is danger about even when our eyes tell us there aren't any dangers.
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[There's an angry terseness in his voice. You get the feeling you've touched a nerve.]
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[Well, Billions, but he won't go into that.]
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As to having your world view violently ripped away... it's happened to me twelve times so far. And that's before I mention that my home world was put into suspended animation while it burned for all eternity.
[He might be taking a little bit of creative license with that last description, but it's easier than trying to explain the Time War and Time Locks and other such things.]
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I assure you that my decision is as informed as it can be. And if it should turn out that the situation is potentially fatal, well... that is what this network is for, is it not?
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Is it? Then why the doubt? Why the fear? Because if it were as informed as you claim, then neither of those would exist, would they?
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You are twisting my words.
My doubts are exclusively as to the efficacy of Hebe herself, nothing more. My "fears" in this case are merely a declaration of lament at my own inability to explain my hunch. That is all.
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Clearly you don't care if you die or not because you 'come back.' And you've requested that I shouldn't care. So, this whole thing is a mute point.
[The Doctor only has hundreds of billions of deaths to back up the fact that it is awful. Every single time. And sometimes, it's the coming back that's the worst part of all.]
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[The Doctor is wrong, of course. He doesn't care if he dies or not because he comes back in theory.
He doesn't care if he dies or not because he still thinks he should have died in that mansion with the rest of them.]
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[Because the Doctor can't not try to save everyone, no matter how much a part of him might want to give up on everyone.]
If there's nothing to discuss, why say anything at all?
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[Said with that tone of 'you are a fool.']
Question two: Why do you want to die?
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[Private - and protected]
Why are you acting like someone caring whether you live or die is a personal affront?
Fine. Who is this person - this prince who is doing this recruiting? I'd like to have a word with him.
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Listen here... sir. You have been taking my words out of context and twisting them into this... this strange semblance of CARING about my well-being, when in reality all it tells me is that you have literally no trust in my capacity to act on my own accord. If you care so much about my life, then let me make my own damned decisions, and stop trying to weasel your way into making some strange, grander point about how I should be valuing my own life or... or whatever the HELL this whole conversation has been about! Do you honestly think you are so much smarter about something when you have NO insight into my actual meeting with this man than I do having actually met him face to face? Please... just STOP. STOP. YOU say you care, but it mostly just feels like you're trying to force me to back down and just... do what? Nothing? I am a HUMAN BEING, not some sort of super being. LET. ME. CONTRIBUTE.
[He barely manages to calm himself down again.]
As I SAID, if worst comes to worst, I can call for aid. And I have no intention of letting you meet with this man, because so far our entire interaction has led me to believe you will only make things WORSE for me. My APOLOGIES.
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Do not apologise unless you mean it. I have been nothing but honest with you. And rather than seeing that maybe perhaps I care about human beings, you have twisted my intentions into somehow holding you back.
This has nothing to do with my trust in your capabilities and has everything to do with the fact that I don't want to see any more people die in this place. There are plenty of ways to contribute that are less likely to end in death.
But you are clearly set in sacrificing your life. That is fine. What is not fine is that in doing so, you are willing to sacrifice another 23 young lives. If you want to die, fine. Go. Die all you like. But if you take others with you, then you are no better than the supposed gods and titans of this place.
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