asgardeventide | 005

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There's something I've been thinking about for a while now. I want to build an airship. I've been here a few months now, and it feels strange being stuck on one island for so long, especially an island as big as this one.

So, I was wondering if anyone had experience with building ships? Or just mechanics in general, and would know how to make some of the parts? I'm sure there are schematics in the library, though Vyse and Enrique would know that better than me. The main thing I'm worried about is what sort of fuel it would run on, since there don't seem to be any moonstones in Asgard.

Oh, right! Aoto said that the airships in his world were probably very different to the ones I'm thinking of, so I drew a picture of one!

If you help out, we might make you part of our crew! Vyse is the captain, before anyone tries to claim that one.

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[Man, he is not in the mood to be lectured right now.]

Just lock it.

I can't stop you from airing out my personal affairs, nor do I doubt that you have no inclination to listen to me, so do what you will. I am not concerned with what you or your allies think of me.

But I don't want to see it.

Ramirez, everyone deserves happiness and chances at being forgiven for their wrongs. I'm extending out my hands to give these because I want to believe in Fina's words about you and in you as a person. Others in Valua might not want anything to you, but... I do. I want to listen to you and help you face your hardships, just as I have with Vyse, Aika, and Fina.

I no longer want to be the prince sheltered within his palace and who feels powerless to help those who cry out for it. That's another reason I escaped Valua, not simply to stop the Armada for what they were doing. Every wrong the Armada has done is on my hands as well, it is part of the reason I seek redemption. Ramirez, I believe we can both be forgiven for the wrongs of the Valuan Empire together and make the country a better place if only we can turn the Empire towards a path of peace instead of war.

You assume quite a lot of things about me.

I have no desire to seek forgiveness for my actions. I hold no remorse for them.

How could you feel that way? All those innocent people dying for no reason other than Valua's greed for more lands and not just the the Armada, but my mother and those in the royal court, having no ounce of remorse for what they have done? Ramirez, this is not the way Valua should be thinking and neither should you.

My mother and Admiral Galcian are wrong, taking the world by force is not what should be done. We must think of the other nations' people and our people before our own selfishness. If not, not only will our people rebel but so will the other nations' people. The downfall of my country due to a rebellion is the last thing I wish to see and that is why I am trying my hardest to help those around me. So that they may see Valua is not a country to be afraid of and we want peace as much as the other nations.

Edited 2012-10-06 20:02 (UTC)

[Jesus Christ his eyes glazed over trying to read that. Though he's not surprised. A Valuan completely convinced of his own self-righteousness, what else is new.]

I will do whatever it takes to save that world from itself. I don't expect someone like you to understand.

Your definition of saving the world is slaughtering innocent people? Of course I don't understand, how could you think that is a way to save the world? There does not need to be bloodshed when it comes to saving the world.

All great changes are preceded by chaos.

The revolutions of your world that paved the way for progress did not begin with a strongly-worded letter.

My father, the previous Emperor, did not want what my mother is doing right now with Valua. He wanted to seek peaceful negotiations with all of Arcadia, not see to it that Valua slaughters others in the name of progress. I'm not only thinking of what is best for all the nations, but following my father's example for a more peaceful world.

It takes more than a generation for Valua to be put in the state it is.

I've seen your Valua's segregation and poverty firsthand. I've seen how your lower classes live in filth and squalor. Do not raise your father up as a martyr. He may have had delusions of change, but the current state of your homeland proves he lacked any of the spine to actually initiate it. I feel no sympathy.

Do not paint me as the villain simply because I am willing to do what it takes.

You know nothing about my father or what he thought of doing. Valua was very different when he reigned as Emperor, it was only when my mother became Empress did things change drastically. So don't ever talk about my father in that regard again or as if you knew him. He worked hard to be a good and kind ruler to the people of Valua, he wanted everyone to have happiness in their lives. I want the same as my father and I will follow in his footsteps to change Valua back to the way it was before he died.

And I would not paint you in that manner if you did not believe slaughtering innocent lives is the only way for peace, but as it stands that is your beliefs.

Edited 2012-10-07 00:00 (UTC)

If you honestly believe that it only takes a single empress's reign that has barely lasted 20 years to instill the culture of your Upper and Lower City, then you're more blinded by your own prejudice than I thought.

[Ramirez, you don't even know the ideas Enrique has about his father. Especially since his father died when he was a tiny Enrique.]

Of course I don't believe such a thing, but my father did try and make Valua a more peaceful nation while extending a hand of peace to the other nations. He was a kind man and I won't allow anyone to speak ill of him or his memory. Especially not one of my own country's Admirals.

[Oh honey you gon' learn today]

Your father was ineffective. Though far be it from me to agree with your mother's principles.

[Yeah, that does it. He's had enough.]

That's enough. Stop insulting my family so lightly, Admiral. First you spit on my father's memory then you mock my mother, I won't allow it anymore.

[Shame. He was just getting started.]

Your family does a fair job of insulting themselves.

Stop me, then. Prove me wrong. I won't lie to your face like your simpering housemaids.

Meet me in front of the Sigyn House, we'll settle this once and for all. If you have an extra sword, bring it with you.

[A duel? A duel? He wants a duel?

Oh, this he has to see.]

Fine.

Until then.

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