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tushanshu2013-06-06 07:09 am
emasculates) wrote in tushanshu2013-06-06 07:09 am
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- † clark kent,
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- † mark grayson,
- † michaelangelo,
- † peggy carter,
- † peter parker (animated),
- † prussia,
- † qilby,
- † stocking anarchy,
- † tarrlok,
- † temeraire,
- † una persson,
- † victor borkowski
[audio]
[Her tone is blunt, sharp, faintly accented. No preamble.]
We are here to fight a war. How many of you are remotely prepared?
[She's guessing like three. But then again, she has high standards for preparedness.]
We are here to fight a war. How many of you are remotely prepared?
[She's guessing like three. But then again, she has high standards for preparedness.]
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[He wouldn't be asking how many times unless he considered them likely to be limited, now would he?]
[For a fraction of a moment, he contemplates telling her he is sorry, but he doesn't bother with the politeness.]
Good graces or practical considerations? I am unsure of 'planning to use somebody' classifies in the first category.
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[shrug.]
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[Because if they win, the Emperor wouldn't have further use for them - why keep them alive at all?]
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I approve.
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Do you think your approval endears you to me, little one?
[Oops she's speaking in Arabic now, which shifts the syntax of her words just slightly. It's fruitless, with the auto-translate, but she knows he speaks the language.]
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Do you think approval is something I seek? Of you?
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[She was, once. She brought her father a necklace of ears, once.]
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I have been led too far from what I want to do by people whose approval I sought. It is not among my goals anymore.
[Thank you, Talia.]
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But fighting is certainly in the generalities.
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You will get your chance, then.
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[There may be a faint smirk in his voice.]
I haven't found myself lacking for opportunities.
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Not necessarily a novel concept for me. The jiangshi were worse.
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Dead bodies should not be misused so. It is disrespectful. Not that it stops anybody.
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[Shrug.]
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[Note that he is way too aware to tab that 'always.' Just generally.]
And respect to the dead is still a sign of how the people showing - or withholding - it deserve to be treated.
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Don't they?
[Don't we?]
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[She sounds absolutely certain.]
I have done terrible things, and had terrible things done to me in turn. But the world is not a fair place, boy. Who decides what we deserve? Fate? Allah?
[A derisive snort.]
Other men? What gives them the right? No. I do not believe in judgment. There is only what one wants, and what one does.
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[... and then the last part comes and. He considers that for another long moment.]
And if one doesn't want anything?
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[People. Not him. He was made, brought into the world for a purpose. And deviating from that purpose has been for a reason, deliberate. But...]
[It's what other people want. If - when - he really and truly pushes that away, he doesn't have anything left. Nothing that he wants, the way Father lives for Justice or Mother craves power, or Grandfather eternal life and his stupid dream of a clean earth. So Damian generally doesn't do that.]
[He's still aware enough of the fact.]
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