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sidherioghnach

♕ but in her web she still delights...

Oct 19, 2010 22:44

I am half-sick of shadows...

... But wasn't that interesting?

[She chuckles, the laugh a pleasant ripple which peters of into a soft sigh of amusement.]

Guardian, dear Guardian... I will hold my end of our bargain. They are free to go.

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[voice] forhyrule October 21 2010, 01:01:18 UTC

Your Majesty's games grow malevolent with the passing seasons.

[ And don't think she missed that little hint about the Guardian. ]

[voice] sidherioghnach October 21 2010, 01:12:53 UTC

Malevolent, your Majesty?

[voice] forhyrule October 21 2010, 01:14:16 UTC

Indeed. Dare I ask why?

[voice] sidherioghnach October 21 2010, 01:33:25 UTC

It is malevolent to hold up a mirror to a person and allow them to see what is truly there?

Why did your folk endorse Sheik's for so long?

[voice] forhyrule October 21 2010, 02:03:42 UTC

The latent potential for one to act contrary to their nature is not 'truth.'

[ A pause. ]

The Sheikah have been noble retainers of the Royal Family for countless generations.

[voice] sidherioghnach October 21 2010, 02:11:49 UTC

And I see that you, who were never one of them, have the luxury of closing your eyes to the truth.

[She chuckles.]

It is no small wonder their race died out, is it? You all saw the truth for a handful of days, and already you are convincing yourselves that it was a trap set by me! A simple illusion of contrary behaviour!

I wonder how those who told you the same feel about being branded liars by simple denial?

[voice] forhyrule October 21 2010, 02:27:56 UTC

[ Have the Shadow Folk truly faded from existence, or simply from sight? Either way, a moot point, and Zelda decided not to voice it. The Queen's words were curious and Zelda wondered if something deeper lay beneath them. ]

Perhaps Your Highness might explain to me this 'truth' that I have been blind to.

[voice] sidherioghnach October 21 2010, 02:33:30 UTC

[A sigh.]

Princess...

[And her voice changes, mirroring Zelda's own:]

The latent potential for one to act contrary to their nature is not 'truth.'

Unless you can see this as delusion, there is naught that can be done to inform you.

[voice] forhyrule October 21 2010, 02:45:58 UTC

[ It's a little disconcerting to hear the Queen mimic Zelda's voice so perfectly, but the Princess takes care to keep her tone even. ]

Why is it that my understanding is delusional?

[voice] sidherioghnach October 21 2010, 02:49:14 UTC

Because repressed thoughts and feelings are truth. Denial of them is a lie. Ergo, believing that by drawing them out I was not showing the truth, you are shielding your eyes from it.

[voice] forhyrule October 21 2010, 02:57:37 UTC

Where, then, does perception feature? If we kill, are we hero or murderer?

[voice] sidherioghnach October 21 2010, 02:59:44 UTC

Either way, have you not taken a life?

[voice] forhyrule October 21 2010, 03:06:18 UTC

By my own hands, I have not, but the armies under my command surely have.

[voice] sidherioghnach October 21 2010, 03:10:15 UTC

And, surely, the eternal truth that lives have been taken away in such a situation is drowned out in the perception that is was done for good or for ill?

[voice] forhyrule October 21 2010, 03:24:04 UTC

Indeed. But we do not kill simply because we can; we act with reasons to motivate us. To do otherwise suggests we are mindless and act on instinct alone.

[voice] sidherioghnach October 26 2010, 22:00:32 UTC

Therefore, you deny your instinct.

Does that make your instinct false? A little lie spun by a woman in her webs?

No. Your instinct is a hard, irrefutable fact. It is truth.

I cannot claim that I will never lie, dear princess, but when I am told that I am lying when I merely tell and show the truth, I find myself rather irked.

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