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 Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2011 12:27 pm
...Speak to her ? Uh, okay then.... Hesperis had no idea for what reason, but she nodded all the same. For now, through, she was more focused on the story Virgo was telling.
It was downright fascinating, and she found herself listening intently where her interest would otherwise have wandered away. It sounded gruesome on the surface, but... it was just a different culture.
She found it fascinating.
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Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2011 4:10 pm
Kestrel was listening intently, catching up on what she missed out though she did miss the beginning and well all this talk of sacrifices and blood and stuff was in all honesty freaking her out.
"Sorry have I missed something, people were willing to sacrifice themselves? They killed themselves?" She blinked a few times trying to make sense of it all. Also magic, it really wasn't making any sense, sacrifices, blood magic it all sounded like some sort of horror story.
Zue? She had an issue remembering the cat, a lot had happened but then maybe she did see him? Yes around the time of the whale. Awakening? Oh this all didn't make sense. To be honest if all senshi liked to sacrifice others and do this blood magic thing she was honestly starting to wonder just how safe they all were, granted they were being made to feel safe and being helped and healed but she couldn't help but wonder if this so called magic was as dead as she said.
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Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2011 1:36 am
"It is," she said to Steven, smiling maternally. "It was a matter of pride. But you couldn't force someone to do it! Unwilling sacrifice was very, very low on the Orders." She wouldn't explain those, though. Just a little too creepy, there, she was fairly sure, and besides that none of them would understand the reasoning behind her people's Orders. Even then, the boy looked more than a little uncomfortable at the idea. She supposed it made sense. Virgo had been very unnerved learning about it for the first time, and it was part of her own memories! Poor boy. She nodded in the affirmative to Fritz, smiling a little bit. "Yes! If the scale tips, a very terrible thing will happen. Once, we didn't give, and the crops failed terribly. Many died of starvation; it was terrible." She didn't think she needed to affirm what she'd just said twice. Of course all senshi were awoken by cats. Duh! Oh, but he was just a civilian… She sighed a little, and rubbed at the side of her face. "I suppose we all are. I've never known a senshi in this life who hadn't. In the past, we'd just go through a Ceremony of the Claim and the planet would claim their senshi." Hesperis received a cheerful smile at the nod, and she returned to her story, only to be interrupted by Kestrel. "They didn't kill themselves," she snapped. "Suicide--that's disgusting!" And such a waste! "Those who killed themselves were burned," she informed the girl, "because then their spirit would never be able to return to Virgo. Suicide is anathema! Why have a community if you won't ask for help? You make it sound like we forced all the witches to give up their lifeblood! But it was rare, so rare it never happened during my lifetime or my predecessor's lifetime." She sighed. "It wasn't monstrous. It freed those who wanted freedom, to move on through the reincarnation cycles." It made perfect sense to her!
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Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2011 2:17 am
Sounded like glamorous suicide to her. At least it sounded rare and that shut her up, for a while at least. Still no matter how the senshi put it, they killed people to keep good crops and that sounded a little too medieval for her.
"So did you all do that? Or was it just your people?" She wanted to know if all senshi liked killing people. Maybe the news wasn't wrong about these terrorists after all!
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Posted: Fri Sep 16, 2011 7:24 pm
Steven just had to nod quietly. He didn't really have the vocabulary or sense of maturity to respond or phrase things the way he wanted, but he did get the sense of how deeply important and spiritual the ritual was. To give up your life for the good of your people was the ultimate sacrifice, and a phrasing he'd found to give him a baseline, a connect, across a huge cultural gap.
Maybe he was overly sympathetic, but he cringed at Virgo's response to the suicidal. He couldn't agree, but now wasn't the time for debate and it probably never would be. He wasn't exactly the type to stand up and try to convert people.
Kestral was making him uncomfortable with her obvious disgust for the topic, though. He could understand, the concept of death was a heavy one, and even heavier when trying to understand it through someone else's eyes. Steven kind of found it beautifully tragic, a story about sacrifice and duty and great character heart, even if against a new and foreign backdrop, and he kind of wished the girl near him would be a little more open minded.
He was making assumptions based on vibes. She hadn't said anything he could think of that would allow him to jump to the defense, and so opted for the ever so direct and mature method of making grimacing faces at her, prepared to look away innocently should she notice.
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Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2011 3:00 am
"It was just Virgo, as far as I know," she said, narrowing her eyes at the bratty girl. Mores were different in Virgo-that-was. It had been more than a thousand years ago, after all. Back then, Earth was still burning witches and shutting people in iron maidens. Or cutting them up into little pieces while they were still alive. She'd learned from her history teacher about the actions of Unit 731 in Manchuria, and it stunned her a little that her culture was considered so monstrous compared to that. "But at least it was voluntary, don't you know Jeanne d'Arc was burned at the stake for witchcraft in 1431? Unwillingly? In the modern day people are raped or burned or tortured for loving another of their gender! Virgo never did that." She tossed her hair over her shoulder and fluffed out the edges, giving the girl an irate look. "So if you want to make the senshi out to be the bad guys, you'd best give a hard look at the people of Earth and what they do, then consider us in that light." A pause, and then she added ominously, "There are worse things than death, anyway. You can always be reincarnated in the Space Cauldron if you die." She doubted her impassioned defense of Virgo's sacrificial ways would change the girl's mind, but she didn't really care, either. She'd said her piece now. If the girl wanted to continue to be willfully blind, that was up to her. "Does anyone have any more questions," she asked, taking a deep breath and setting her hands on her knees.
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Posted: Thu Sep 22, 2011 6:54 am
Kestrel was more then likely close to ruining this whole question/answer session especially as she was close to ranting about the fact that actually no matter how bad some humans were, she wasn't any better as after all they were the terrorists! The were on the news all the time because they killed people! Kes wouldn't know any different and nor did she really care. Senshi were bad that much was blatantly obvious.
"I don't think burning or killing someone is right whether it's by choice or not." That was all she said though, she looked around to see if anyone was even likely to answer another question. Killing was wrong full stop and well using their own history as an example as to why they weren't bad was really quite low and pathetic in her mind.
"So what happened to the place. There are no people now, not at any of the outposts. I am assuming you didn't kill them all?" Her voice was a little calmer now and wasn't attacking as much as she had been, though there was still an edge to it.
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Posted: Wed Sep 28, 2011 8:49 am
Natalia had taken a high school sociology class last year. It helped her to, somewhat, understand. Or so she thought. Her half-asleep mind might have been just a little more accepting than her otherwise sharp and arumenative ways when awake and alert. If any of this had come from anyone else, she probably still would have thrown up some dispute, but coming from Virgo.... Natalia could accept it.
"Space Cauldron?"
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Posted: Sun Oct 02, 2011 7:27 pm
Lina Knight was, even in the best of times these days, a volatile young woman. She had been the first contacted by the Zodiacs to spread word amongst the knights as wel las any senshi she might have contact with that their help was desperately needed. As such, she was one of the very last people to make their way up into space at the Surrounding.
Her initial trip had been to the main Chronos Castle figuring that she would be best put to work there. It was recommended, after awhile, that she try the Virgo outpost. Her scanner could be put to work there finding what was wrong with those who were hurt. In fact several civilians had fallen into strange short-lasting comas from being covered in blue gel. One had vanished.
It was arriving at this outpost through the groves that she had realized something. Something both wonderful and terrible all at the same time. Growing there in the dead-center of the Virgo Groves was a Lina tree. One of her sacred palms that, the last she knew, grew in only two places in the entire universe. Striding straight up to the Outposts' senshi she couldn't resist snagging her by the wrist and dragging her away from the group.
"You have so much explaining to do. Where did you get this?!" A black-covered arm gestured wildly before she looked expectantly at Virgo. Bewildered eyes looked back at her so that the Knight of Mercury had only one real solution. "Never mind, I know how to solve this." Or at least she hoped it would solve it. Closing her eyes, the words of her pledge were said with a true reverence befitting a noble knight.
The group wouldn't have seen anything interesting. One minute they were there the next? Gone. Gone away to the Lina groves of Mercury so that the bluenette could release the wrist of Soldier Virgo and cross her arms expectantly.
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