trainingwings | I know everyone's busy with the event, but I thought I'd toss this out here anyway.

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I know everyone's busy with the event, but I thought I'd toss this out here anyway.

Player Name: Lauren
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Character Name: Yahiro Samukawa
Character Fandom: Guilty Crown

[After learning all he can from the resources given to him upon his arrival, what's the first thing Yahiro leaves his recently acquired apartment to do?

Grocery shopping, of course.

Living with his brother, and later by himself, had him on a shoestring budget. Add that to working with limited food supplies while holed up in the school and you have someone who's rather eager to see what's being offered for free. By the time he's gone through most of the store his cart is full of far more than any one person would need for a week or more, but how can he not take advantage of this?

He stops to look over a selection of wines, thoughtful.]

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[Later, he can be found just outside his apartment complex, a basket set beside him with a strange medley of food inside. He has a sandwich in one hand, a can of soda in the other, and seems to be just as content as can be.

His journal is sitting out in front of him as he casually listens in on the current going-ons around the village.

Eventually he speaks up himself.]

Are there ever any uprisings here? Because it sure seems peaceful for a place where everyone's at the whims of unseen hands.

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I thought the same thing. But someone I know pointed out that with the barrier impenetrable and the Third Party outside of it, no one really has any incentive to try. Where would we go if we did manage to overthrow the Malnosso?

Sometimes it isn't a matter of going anywhere, it's a matter of being under the banner of someone you actually trust.

If you're going to be stuck here, wouldn't you rather it be under your own government without someone whisking your friends away regularly for experimentation?

"Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them."

How would you suggest we go about choosing someone everyone trusts? Even the most just people can change when faced with harder challenges or victories too good to let pass by...

I know that.

I'm not saying we need a king. [He's had enough of that lately, he thinks.]

Plenty of democracies or rules by councils have worked in the past. And in any case I wasn't so much suggesting a rebellion myself as merely asking if they had happened before.

Edited 2013-08-07 07:24 (UTC)

I don't think someone needs a title like 'king' to be a tyrant. They only need to be charismatic enough to be looked up to or trusted.

...Anyway. No, from what I've heard there hasn't been one. Maybe because most people can shrug off the experimentation when everything is returned to normal. And maybe because for the most part, life could be worse here?

Everyone's content to trade freedom for a part-time utopia?

I guess that's not too hard to believe.

No, not hard to believe at all. It was business as usual where I'm from.

[People didn't leave Columbia the safe way. And who would leave 'The New Eden' voluntarily anyway?]

And freedom is often traded for less.

[Order. Safety. Not everyone can be rebellious.]

I suppose an uprising would require a certain amount of participants to be successful, or even attempt to be. Still strange to think it hasn't yet been attempted.

Maybe enough people aren't angry enough at the same time. Maybe it's because there aren't many people here who have taken abuse for long enough. I've heard some people spend only a few weeks here before leaving again. In my experience, it takes quite a bit of pressure before a large group organizes.

Or maybe it's simply because there are fewer pawns.

There are more people with their own agenda and not enough that are just willing to rally behind a bright banner.

[...well, she can't say she's very fond of that terminology.]

There are, ah, quite a few of us here who are 'exceptional'. Particularly determined or have a strange ability or something that makes us special. It would make a formidable force, but given we're all so individual it's hard to put just one person at the head of it all.

Exactly.

Finding a single figure, or even a group of people, that everyone would be willing to follow would be incredibly difficult.

Maybe that's why certain residents were picked to begin with. We're powerful enough to fight their wars for them, but not organized enough to break out of their rule.

It seems too risky to chance, though. If we did manage to organize, it could be an unmitigated disaster.

Could be. But that hasn't stopped the history makers, has it?

I suppose making history by goading a large group of powerful people into a destructive rebellion could be considered an achievement... But I'm not certain it's something that said history makers want remembered.

You're missing my point.

How many successful rebellions have taken place in your world's history simply because someone decided to take the risk?

Successful ones?

...three. The American Revolution, the French Revolution, and the Texas Rebellion.

But for those two I can easily name a dozen that failed. In 1848 dozens of European countries rebelled against their governments and were put down in under a year. The American Civil War, the New York draft riots, the Sioux Uprising, Wounded Knee, the Boxer Rebellion.

...Sometimes someone standing up and saying something is wrong isn't enough. Sometimes it just gets people killed.

And sometimes people would rather die knowing they tried to make a difference than live a long life having done nothing.

This just isn't one of those situations, I see.

No, it's not. Most people here just want to go back to the lives they had before they were here, not get involved in something and die before they can get home. Some people had horrible, violence-ridden lives and just want to be somewhere quiet for a while. Or want to experience things they can't experience when they're in their own world.

Not all 'differences' are made through rebellion. And I wouldn't consider everything I've done here to be 'nothing'.

Settle down, settle down.

I'm not trying to incite anything. Just getting a feel for the place and how people are responding to their captivity here. I've only just arrived, so I wasn't sure what the general outlook was.

[Elizabeth takes his advice and huffs quietly. No, no one's trying to start something, fine. She'll stop.]

...It's complicated. How people feel about being in captivity. Here.

I imagine it would be, given that the situation itself is complicated.

[He leans back against the wall of the building some more to make himself comfortable.]

And you - do you like it here?

That's a hard question to answer.

[She's wanted to be free her entire life. But now... Now she has something that only exists in this place at this exact time. Things have happened that she would forget, people have touched her who she would never see again.]

I've always wanted freedom. But now I may have too much to lose to it.

You're talking about how you forget everything if you leave here, right? I've been doing my required reading.

[And then some. Who wouldn't immediately read up on the rules of this place?]

I guess I am. But even if I didn't forget, I don't know if I could leave then either.

Because then you would remember, right?

I can see how the issue would be troubling if you've made a life here.

I try not to think too much about it. What could I do if I was sent home without my consent anyway? I would forget, and I would have worried for no reason.

Are these things on your mind constantly while you're here?

...They didn't used to be.

I guess you think about things you could lose when you actually have things to lose.

I can understand that.

[Somewhat, a least. Perhaps his perspective wasn't exactly the same as hers.]

[The answer he gives doesn't sound terribly enthusiastic. Sort of dismissive, even.]

Do... most people not think about things like that? [Elizabeth really wouldn't know. Maybe she'd just had too much to care about thrown at her all at once.]

I doubt you're alone in thinking that way, especially here.

Why especially here?

Because of the way this place operates, and how people can come and go at a moment's notice. Because of the sorts of people it brings.

I guess this place does put us in situations where we're sort of... forced to make stronger relationships than is typical.

[Not that she would really know what developing a 'typical' relationship was like.]

And it's true, everyone is so unique. I doubt I'll ever meet anyone like some of the people I've met here. Some of them it's absolutely impossible. [She laughs a little.]

I've only just gotten here.

[He takes a thoughtful sip of soda, glancing up down the path further into town.]

So who knows how I'll be a few months from now if I'm still around.

Well have you met people? Given we're all so unique, from strange places and times, the opportunity to learn alone is incredible.

I'll have to agree with you on that. Just reading the journal we were given has been enlightening.

Later on, I'll have to take a proper tour of the place.

You haven't even seen all of the village yet? How long have you been here? [Teasing, just teasing.]

I'm not a member of the Welcome Center, but if you'd like I could point out a few things.

A day, actually.

[He chuckles a little.]

Thank you, but I think I'll be fine for now.

[Gai senses Yahiro's Void before he even spots the other boy-- the life-severing shears, the same Void he'd sensed in Roppongi that day. But what makes it unusual this time is the fact that it's been more than a year since he's encountered any Voids at all... unusual indeed. So this place has finally seen fit to bring someone else from his world, has it?

His guard is up, because he knows quite well what a Void like that says about the person who possesses it. But that doesn't mean he won't address Yahiro even so.]

Yahiro Samukawa. A third-year student at Tennozu High and a classmate of Shu Ouma. Or should I call you "Sugar"?

[Yes, he knows who you are, Yahiro.]

[There's a voice that causes the hairs on the back of Yahiro's neck to stand on end. His head immediately jerks up in it's direction, lunch momentarily forgotten.]

Gai Tsutsugami.

[He says the name before he can think about whether it's a smart move or not. The way the blond said his "nickname" made him want to let the other know he knew who he was as well. Their knowledge of each other shouldn't be surprising, but given what he's read of this place...

The man's hair isn't the bleached color from before. His eyes are uncovered. Questions such as So which one are you? thus remain unspoken.]

[Gai may look like his old self, yet at the same time he doesn't: though he's still got his Luger holstered at his side, he's clad in a t-shirt and jeans rather than his usual uniform, his hair pulled back into a ponytail.

And unlike Yahiro, he looks completely relaxed. Yahiro may be clever, but he's alone and unarmed and without anyone to influence just yet. Gai may not be letting his guard down, but he's not all that concerned either.]

I don't suppose you brought Shu with you.

[Yahiro doesn't expect anything different, to be honest. Gai has always seemed calm and in control during public appearances.

He relaxes a little himself, at least outwardly, smiling amiably.]

No such luck, I'm afraid.

Too bad. And here I was hoping you might actually be useful.

[He says this without missing a beat, his smile never faltering. He might as well be discussing the weather for how casually he makes this statement.

Gai has his reputation for a reason.]

Edited 2013-08-17 04:07 (UTC)

[Yahiro glares, but has to stop himself from snapping something back. Gai is purposefully trying to piss him off, and he shouldn't let himself fall for it.

He turns his attention to his food basket, as if it holds more importance, picking through it with one hand.]

You got here before me. I would think you'd know the workings of this place better than that.

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I know everyone's busy with the event, but I thought I'd toss this out here anyway.

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