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[Action/Voice] 007

Aug 10, 2011 22:23

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[It's late at night, late enough when most people are asleep. Alexei is one of those people...or well, was. His journal had been placed aside, but it can still pick up sounds. Roughly it picks up someone violently waking up. Alexei found himself wandering into memories he didn't like to recall. They were quick flashes, but his moments ( Read more... )

~sanji, ~r. giles, casey? what casey?, pondering, ~eggman, ~duke pantarei, am i dead yet?, ~moses sander, ~tomoya okazaki, mikan orchards has a healing factor, ~marco, !action, ~tsubaki yayoi, haha wasn't affected, !voice, ~monkey d. luffy, ~nefertari vivi, come at me namipie 8|, i feel better from finding your flaws, ~yuuka kazami, reminiscing about the past, ~iroh, is so late, ~nami

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[voice] fallenambitions August 20 2011, 18:38:31 UTC

[Hm where to even start...] We were a monarchy, ruled by a king or queen. While they are responsible for watching over the Empire as a whole, they still needed people to be their eyes, watch the Empire from within. You probably have people like them as well. In our world, that is the Council, a group of selected individuals who offered their ruler advice and also be the voice of the people. Regular citizens couldn't simply request an audience with their king or queen all the time. Beneath them are the Imperial Knights. Obviously they were responsible with keeping order and protection. They answered only to the Council and the royal family.

It should have been the perfect system, but it was flawed, corrupt. The voice of the people, only meant the voice of nobility. If they didn't have the money, the Council would have never bothered with them. The Council's only concern were for themselves and much of the problems people were facing never reached the royal family. This also meant the Knights were corrupt as well. In fact, the Imperial Knights were made up of only nobility. No commoner could ever become a Knight.

Because of this system, your future was basically determined forever by the class you were born in. This was the old way of thinking, a way that had become corrupt and outdated. Do you follow me?

[voice] alabastajewel August 30 2011, 03:18:36 UTC

[Vivi's expression grows more serious as she listens; slightly troubled, even.] I follow, yes.

[She's not unfamiliar with the sort of thing he's speaking about, sadly, but she'll let him finish before adding her own experiences in.]

[voice] ....god what were we talking about? rofl fallenambitions August 30 2011, 05:06:37 UTC

My plan was to try and change the old ways from within the system itself. It's simple enough to at least join the knights, if you were of nobility, but I was not. It was sheer luck I was able to join the knights at the time and it was the closest I could get within the Empire itself.

This was the one part of the system I was able to change, the Imperial Knights. I worked my way to the top and when I became Commandant, I was able to take away the Council's hold over the Knights. No longer did we need to follow their orders and are now independent from them. We are even at equal standing with the Council now and we've generally taken it upon ourselves to be there for the people where the council had failed. I even changed the qualifications for someone to become a Knight. From now on anyone from any class had equal opportunity to join. It was the one place where people had a voice.

[...Or so it used to be, until he finally gave up on the Empire and decided that restarting under a new rule was the only answer.]

[voice] alabastajewel August 31 2011, 03:42:15 UTC

[It's more than Vivi was expecting to hear, and she's surprised at how much he downplayed the accomplishment. She wonders if there's a catch.]

It sounds to me that you've made great strides already, Alexei-san. The kind of changes you've begun will likely grow into something even greater, given time.

[voice] fallenambitions August 31 2011, 04:46:18 UTC

...Time. Something I am slowly running out of.

[More like none at all, considering he's dead. She doesn't need to know that detail though.]

[voice] alabastajewel August 31 2011, 06:37:43 UTC

[She's not quite sure what to make of that. Is there some deadline he has to meet? Or is he simply referring to his own mortality? She wouldn't call him old or anything like that.]

Time is one of the building blocks of lasting change. The more solid the foundation, the sturdier the end result. [She means it to be comforting.]

[voice] fallenambitions September 1 2011, 01:13:35 UTC

[He smiles faintly on his end.]

I suppose. One can only hope. I've done plenty already, but that itself took much of my time. Who knows if I'll reach my final goal before it's all over.

[voice] alabastajewel September 1 2011, 01:50:17 UTC

[There's that strange way of phrasing again, implying some sort of finality. This time, she has to ask.]

Before what's over, Alexei-san?

[voice] fallenambitions September 1 2011, 01:55:44 UTC

No one lives forever, Miss Vivi. Even I know I cannot continue this forever. I will have to retire one day.

[voice] alabastajewel September 1 2011, 02:36:06 UTC

But surely you have allies and friends who will carry on in your stead. You can't have done it all on your own.

[voice] fallenambitions September 1 2011, 04:31:32 UTC

...I do have a successor. [Not by his decision obviously.] I'm positive he will continue where I left off.

[voice] alabastajewel September 2 2011, 02:32:31 UTC

That's good. Then you shouldn't have to worry. [She thinks she understands where he's coming from, though. Or, at least, she assumes he wants to be able to see it through to the end, even if that may not be a realistic goal, given the scale of the changes he's talking about. But she's sure she'd feel the same in a similar position.]

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