☣ ninth story ( video → tl;dr ii )
( Greetings, fellow Gardeners. Ellie hasn't been around all that much, lately. When she hasn't been around Em, clinging and watching and hovering until either Em had to ask for space, or she had the need to break away and go back down into Hell. Any time that wasn't around Em was spent down there, far away from everyone
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Hey, you're from Earth, right? Is it one with magic or just... science and religion as the two big contenders?
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( After all, to her, their country getting invaded was wrong. But it hadn't been their land, they'd just taken it from someone else. And the invaders, they thought they were doing what they needed to, as well. So who was to say who was right, and who was wrong? )
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[Rico pauses, pulling out a cigarette and tapping it on the back of her hand.] No such thing as right and wrong, not really. You just do the best you can.
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People can do bad things and see they're bad, but if they're doing them and they see they're bad and not-- the right thing, then maybe they don't really want to be doing them. Or they'd prefer another option.
( God. It's a little much for her to get her head around, sometimes. She presses her lips together and scratches her jaw.
That last comment, though, wins a slight - very slight, barely there - smile. ) I had a friend who said that sometimes, you don't know if you're doing the right thing, but if you just keep trying your best to be perfect, maybe at the end of the day it'll add up. You'll have more right than you have wrong. I think she was talking about your actions in the eyes of God, but... it could kind of apply to anything.
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[Murmured quietly. She thinks about trying to explain what she believes in, but it's really too vast and difficult to define. She's rather more concerned by Ellie's manner, anyway.]
Are you alright?
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( She shrugs. ) I'm here. I've seen a whole lotta things back home, and some things here that'd be crazy to consider if I were still home.
( Finally, she shrugs loosely. ) I'm don't know.
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[She can't really remember where or how she picked the quote up. Maybe one of her uncles, visiting.]
I understand. It's easier, to accept each thing as it comes.
[Difficult to explain her belief system, when she believed most everything that appeared before her. It was only some of the darker elements of the Gardens that had truly managed to shock her, so far.]
Our worlds are different. That doesn't meant that any one is right or wrong.
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( Most of what happened in the Garden had just made her angry, adding to the destructive mess that boils in her gut. Magic seemed so stupid, the entire purpose of this place, it didn't make sense.
And then Em got shot, and Fang swooped in to the rescue and that happy, bouncy little thing danced around and fixed her. That was magic, too. Magic fixed things where science - a gun was science, even if the thing with the gun was magic - had inflicted injury, and where science hadn't managed to save someone with a similar wound back home.
She just nods slowly. ) They're all real to whoever's from them. If we say someone else's world isn't real or right, then the same thing just applies to us, too.
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I am of the opinion that phenomena we can measure, understand, and even manipulate are generally known as science. "Magic" is often a name given to natural phemonena that are not yet understood. [He hated the word magic. All was science to him.]
In the end, I don't believe it matters what terminology we use. It is a matter of semantics. Each fact, each occurrence, can be taken into account and studied regardless of what name we give it.
This place is familiar to me in some ways, though quite alien to me in others. In my world, we have the technology to create false, holographic environments that mimic reality.
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( Hmm. ) I guess you're right. I really is just semantics, everything kind of bleeds into each other and we just rely on our own perspective. ( Ellie shakes her head, tapping her fingers against the rock she's sitting on, and then pushing her hair out of her eyes. ) God, it's just-- there's so many things we put labels on. If you try to straighten every single one out to work out what overlaps, you'd go crazy. My head feels like it's just full of galahs that just found a fruit tree, or something.
( Oh. She pauses. ) Do you mean like those ( ... )
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In my world, we have a substance that allows people to manipulate the natural world. Using it, I can summon fire or ice with the power of my will. Some of the people in my world call this magic, and others call it science--and these are people who live in the same world and time, walk along the same city streets. As you say, considering these labels too much can distract one from the real issues at hand.
[Sephiroth considers the comparison.] In a way. I've reproduced a basic version of the technology here, which I use for training. It creates convincing environments, as well as opponents for me to fight.
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Is that, uh-- um. Is that the materia stuff you told me about? You tried to make some a little while ago?
Huh. ( That actually sounds really cool. Or it would, if the phantoms hadn't been so lifelike and scary. ) Can they hurt you?
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... t-though even I have a hard time thinking of it as science, when I see some of the stuff they do.
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... as far as I know, anyway.
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Yeah. 'As far as I know.' That's about the best we have to work with, really. Relying on whatever information people give us. ( Maybe someone is a little bitter. )
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