(Untitled)

[supercilious]

Who: EVERYONE.
When: May 11 - 14.
Where: All purpose district 1 & 2, the carnival.
Format: WHICHEVER.
What: THE TOURNEY.
Warnings: Will be individually marked if necessary

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[lumenrelegandus]

[gather, ye goddessy ghosts, for story-time with the professor]

The king and queen of Thebes had been married for some time without children. The king consulted the Oracle of Apollo, god of prophecy, who told the king that if he had a son, that son would kill him.

When the queen finally had a son, in fear of the prophecy, the king bound the baby's ankles together, and they gave him to a shepherd, who was ordered to abandon him on the mountain, where the baby would die of exposure.

The shepherd couldn't bring himself to fulfill these orders. Instead he gave the baby to another shepherd, who passed him along to another, to bring him far, far away from Thebes and the threat of the prophecy.

The baby at last was brought to the neighboring kingdom of Corinth. The king and queen of Corinth were childless, and so adopted the baby as their own. They named him Oedipus after the swelling to his feet and ankles, from being bound.

Oedipus grew up believing the king and queen of Corinth were his parents, and loving them as such. Until he was told by a drunk that he'd been adopted. When confronted, the king and queen denied this. Oedipus decided to consult the Oracle of Apollo. The Oracle told him only that he was destined to kill his father and marry his mother.

Wishing to avoid that fate, thinking it applied to the king and queen of Corinth, the only parents he knew, Oedipus decided not to return home.

Over the course of his subsequent travels, he met with the king of Thebes, but they did not know each other. They fought, and Oedipus killed the king in self-defense, not knowing he was his birth-father.

Oedipus continued to Thebes, which was under siege by a monster. Oedipus defeated it. The grateful people of Thebes appointed Oedipus as their king, giving him the recently widowed queen's hand in marriage. Oedipus married her, not knowing she was his birth-mother.

So the prophecy was fulfilled because of the attempts by everyone who was told it-father, mother, and son-to avoid it.

[thenobledie]

[and that sound is the sound of shirley laughing! it's slow before it gets a little deep, and she sighs. conclusion: someone here was really dumb.]

Either the Oracle of this story was very good or very ill-suited for the role of guidance.

[lumenrelegandus]

[the fact of Shirley laughing is so stunning, it makes him laugh too.

The air in the med tent feels much cleaner and brighter.]

An equally fair conclusion.

[thenobledie]

[can't help it. permanent superiority complexes mean totally judging people who do things close to her heart wrong. but:]

Fate is a complicated thing. One can never truly know if a rebellion of it has been accomplished.

[lumenrelegandus]

Which may be my argument for not believing in it?

s-sob, I TRIED TO SIMPLIFY but prob won't make much sense, anyway.

[thenobledie]

[a long silence. shirley can't afford that idea. not when the reasons she lived, died, and bound herself to a shrine because there is nothing else for the defiant are because fate is real, and of all the things she chose to do, she chose to face it head on with a sword in hand. continues to fight it. but sometimes, she wonders if she is running right toward it - that it'll be the third iteration the dragoons come to destroy the world. maybe they have always been part of soa's plan.

that thought makes her sick, and when she speaks, she doesn't bother hiding the emotion.]

I believe the inner workings of each world is different.

[as she emerges, changed and slipping an earring on, eyes closed to avoid looking at him.]

OMG I broke Shirley!! ...not that anyone could tell

[lumenrelegandus]

[it's the first time he's heard that tone to her voice, and he's silent in recognition of it.

He doesn't apologise, but decides not to continue. As she reemerges from behind the fabric wall, he rises to meet her, and nods at the change.]

Done for the day?

YOU WILL ALWAYS KNOW, THOUGH.

[thenobledie]

Unfortunately.

[and opening her eyes.]

Eh, were I keeping score, she'd still be ahead

[lumenrelegandus]

[smiling slightly, he picks up her armour and hands it to her] Always more tomorrow.

i think she is ahead of everyone...

[thenobledie]

I suppose so.

[a smile, even if she has no plans for it. really, she should make some with the rate her aggression is going.]