No Moon For You [Active, Open]

[ineedthumbs]

Characters: Red XIII, Open
Setting: Entryway, Grand Room
Time: Day 001, early afternoon
Summary: Red XIII arrives at Dollsy, is unhappy about it. More people to come?
Warnings: None

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[ineedthumbs]

Red XIII couldn't help but set his ears back, uncomfortable with Zetsu's words. They reminded him of fatalistic musings of someone else, someone who--while by no means a bad person--was far too dire in terms of his personal assessments of feeling. "I think perhaps it is better to think of love in the objective if we're going to talk about it," he murmured, knowing full well they could both hear him.

As for religion... he cleared his throat and addressed Ms. Blake. "It varies," the leonine creature admitted. "Speaking generally, it tends not be very... focused, shall we say." He gave a rueful smile. "I think perhaps having the source of life existing inside the Planet makes such priorities a little different." So, indeed, did having miracles exist in a slightly different manner. "There are cults and the like, but I do not believe I have the authority to speak of them, at least not in an unbiased manner." As he had never been part of a cult, let alone experienced them in any form except as written accounts. "The Ancients had a greater religion, but as of now humanity has... lost a bit of its focus." He shook his head. "Religion is, to me, a personal thing, and so I do not discuss it often." He flicked his ears amicably, doing his best to answer when the answer was so vague. This wasn't to say that the people of the Planet had no concept of sin... here his mind came back to Vincent... but Red XIII wasn't sure they were necessarily the exact same thing and he didn't want to sow confusion.

"I can't say my world's view on it is much like either of yours, to be honest... science has taken a very strong hold on the way people perceive things, especially since our fact is very close to what seems to be your fiction." He didn't want to entangle them in the complexities of Holy or the Cetra or the Lifestream, straightforward as some of it was, especially not when he didn't know more about them. He felt a little guilty for omitting it, however.

[weeatbodies]

Why would she hate when people asked about it? Did it make her feel guilty that the love which was apparently so boundless and faultless had strict limits on who would be included? "A pity you can't just ask him what's right like Hidan does...." He murmured; that was one reason why it seemed so absurd to believe in someone which might not even be real. You couldn't see or touch or feel the effects of this Jesus; all of it had to be taken based on faith--and faith, in his world, was very hard to come by. Faith in higher powers, faith in your fellow man, faith in yourself.... How could it be maintained when disillusionment was so easy and quick? Religion was a sugar-coating that very few bothered with or even remembered. After all, they had the shinobi code to guide them; what more did they need? And the civilians had.... whatever they had. As far as he knew, they relied on morals and philosophy, though certainly not as strictly as the monks.

"It is the objective." Zetsu muttered to himself, tone faintly sour and hardly caring whether either of the others heard. After all, he wasn't talking about some great, overarching principle of Love itself. He was talking real, solid, tangible actions and their results, regardless of the feelings that went with them. How was that not objective? "It must." He agreed, a little more settled by considering the Lifestream; that was something he could respect. It sounded like it was something real and knowable, a part of nature that all could abide by. He could only shrug at the comments about science and fiction; he wasn't sure what there would be that would count as fiction to him. "Science and technology tends to be very difficult to get a hold of for a great deal of people, and much simpler for some, if it even exists." Damn the cultural barriers--it made some aspects of life absurd when you compared countries to one another.

[dead_mans_queen]

Anita had no idea what Zetsu was talking about (who the hell was Hidan, after all?), nor why he thought one should be able to just talk to Jesus. "We don't just ask him questions," she explained. "We pray, it's like a mental conversation between us and God. And God answers our prayers with miracles."

She supposed that Zetsu wouldn't understand the concept of a miracle; he didn't seem like the type. So far, it was Nanaki that Anita connected with the most, which was quite unusual for her. She still equated him to some sort of shapeshifter (even though she knew he was not), and she'd never run across any as particularly intelligent as he. Surprisingly, she found herself respecting the animal and not the human in him. Usually, it was the other way around.