87th Journey

[reginagloriae]

Unlike my friend Rokuta's possible sentiments, I believe that sometimes you cannot avoid bloodshed. Live your life just running away from conflict won't make them disappear. It's a sad reality to resign at, but as long there's unrest, warfare is necessary to protect the greater good and its interests. For this I'm extremely grateful to those who

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Aa... they do. Not the most basic of ideals--but the more complicated ones that always seem to cause the most trouble, they change.

This unworthy one has seen how such ideals are able to change in just thirty years. The Japan we created after bakumatsu is entirely different from the Japan he knew as a boy. Back then, the concept of a sword that protects over a sword that kills would have been laughed at and seen as an impossibility. But now in Meiji? The idea is beginning to be embraced. Perhaps in another ten years the killing sword will be forgotten entirely.

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We wanted an era where the common people would not be oppressed by those in power. For the most part we succeeded, but it's a difficult thing for those now in power not to abuse it and become just as the system before it. It seems almost inevitable that it will happen--because people don't change, even if ideals do. People are still inherently selfish... we want what we want. And there are those who will abuse everything in order to get it...

He has said has said many times that he fought in the war to bring about a new era--well in truth, he will probably be fighting for that new era until the day he dies, because even though the war itself is over, that fight to keep the weak from being abused by the strong will never actually end...

[ooc; it's been a while since he monologued, hopefully I didn't just put his foot in his mouth ~_~ I must bed.]

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The sword that protects. It has always protected, even if only the life of the wielder during combat. Gotta to say this in my personal experience.

Swords aren't forgotten in Japan, the one I remember, Kenshin. But people just prefer firearms over them across the world. They are more effective I guess, in some cases. Not against people like En-Ou or me.

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Oppression... That's what I want to create I guess I have been trying to skirt around the issue when it's so simplistic. But I don't know what to do to achieve that. Not everyone is like that, only those who have chosen the easy path once they got their positions. People like Shoukou or Gahou... I can't forgive men like them.

Hey, living is fighting. There's no such thing of a perfect utopia, but there are countries where there have longer periods of peace and prosperity more than other ones. Even in Japan of my time with its wealth, there's a socially accepted means of oppression, far more subtle than those that existed in the past. But it's also because we let them have power over us. I was... an idiot. Really an idiot. So that fight and effort did rip some results.