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bravenewworld2014-02-06 07:46 pm
ladyofluminosity) wrote in bravenewworld2014-02-06 07:46 pm
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[The feed starts with a simple black and white picture, moving slowly and occasionally skipping to catch up with the action. It appears that whoever is recording is in the industrial district and is panning the camera around to see everything. The clean-up efforts are still going on, but things are, for the most part, back in order. There are voices of people haggling over scrap parts, people and Pokemon having conversations; a cacophony of sights and sounds.
After a few moments, the camera moves to a young woman's face, and even with the limited video capability, you can tell she is positively beaming right now.]
Can everyone see this? Isn't it amazing? The engineers are geniuses, I never would have thought that I could actually record what was happening right in front of me! We should try to chronicle our lives for the generations after us, so they can see how we live. The people before us had ways of leaving a mark, even if we can't fully understand it right now, and now that we can take video of the things that we see, we should take advantage of it!
I'd love to see what other people might record. What kinds of things would you like to leave for the future citizens of Union and, well, beyond?
[There's a voice behind her, gruff and imposing, and Lux turns her head.]
Sorry, I'll be right there!
Anyway, my break is over. Think about it!
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[The same young woman from the feed earlier is seen leaving an inn, head lowered a bit. She looks exhausted, a bit dirty and now extremely discouraged.]
[The feed starts with a simple black and white picture, moving slowly and occasionally skipping to catch up with the action. It appears that whoever is recording is in the industrial district and is panning the camera around to see everything. The clean-up efforts are still going on, but things are, for the most part, back in order. There are voices of people haggling over scrap parts, people and Pokemon having conversations; a cacophony of sights and sounds.
After a few moments, the camera moves to a young woman's face, and even with the limited video capability, you can tell she is positively beaming right now.]
Can everyone see this? Isn't it amazing? The engineers are geniuses, I never would have thought that I could actually record what was happening right in front of me! We should try to chronicle our lives for the generations after us, so they can see how we live. The people before us had ways of leaving a mark, even if we can't fully understand it right now, and now that we can take video of the things that we see, we should take advantage of it!
I'd love to see what other people might record. What kinds of things would you like to leave for the future citizens of Union and, well, beyond?
[There's a voice behind her, gruff and imposing, and Lux turns her head.]
Sorry, I'll be right there!
Anyway, my break is over. Think about it!
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[The same young woman from the feed earlier is seen leaving an inn, head lowered a bit. She looks exhausted, a bit dirty and now extremely discouraged.]
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[What she would like to say is that they are an old family that are stuck in their ways and would like nothing more than to stay relevant, but she's not allowed to.
Although... she was in good company, right?]
Basically, certain families act the way that they do because it's the only way they know how to. It's how they keep in the positions of power that they do, by convincing others they are right because they are right. They are the ones that make the rules, and that is what makes their actions correct. They further strengthen these ties through favors, lobbying for certain groups, arranged marriages between families; it's all very complicated, and not all sides are created equal.
Take, for example, my cousin. While he is lower in hierarchy in our line, he was placed within the Sword of the Savior under the sponsorship of the Crownguard family along with my older brother. Their roles in the Sword, first and foremost, are to protect the people, however, there are political reasons for it as well. That is their duty. They're both lucky in that it's something that both of them wanted to do, and are generally happy with it.
[She pauses for a beat, her tone becoming a bit more detached.]
As the Crownguard daughter, it is my duty to further ties with other noble families. However, because our influence has been waning over the last few generations, I am betrothed to a son of the Flourite family, Fai, because of my typing. My role is to strengthen ties between the two families and give the Flourite family a male heir.
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...I've... never heard someone be so frank about it.
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I... don't know, actually.
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At least one of us isn't.
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[But her tone said that, if given the choice, she'd have absolutely nothing to do with the lot of it.]
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[Yes, it is a hollow argument, and it's more than obvious that she knows that, but there's something else too that she's not saying.]
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But it's how I was raised, and is the only way I know.
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Except for the Council members themselves, of course, who get to force their children into unwanted marriages for political gain.
That's pretty fucking messed up.
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...You wouldn't understand.
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No, I can't! I wouldn't know what else to do!
[...Whoa, wait, that wasn't what she meant to say, and that much was clear from the look on her face, that of utter surprise. She meant to speak of her fiance, what it would do to his reputation, and that of her family. She wasn't a factor in this.]
I... that wasn't what I meant...
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Did she?
She sat there quiet for a moment, head lowered again, feeling mortified but at the same time... lighter? It was odd. She couldn't quite piece it together.]
...I'm sorry, I didn't mean to shout at you like that. I don't... I don't know what came over me.
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Well, wasn't all me.
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