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un: French revolution ❦ video
[It's a day or so since he's arrived in Wyver and you'd think Enjolras might have something to say about the advanced technology, the breath-taking scenery, the ravenous creatures all determined to eat everyone-]
The honor of nations consists in being free and virtuous, in striking down tyrants and avenging reviled humanity.
[-or not.
You might mistake the age of the fiery-eyed young blond, he looks so young, except there's a gravity in his voice as he speaks and a serious set to his brow.]
I do not know you, fellow citizens, nor you me. I will introduce myself. My family name is Enjolras. I have five and twenty years and before the Storm I was a student of law in Paris.
We are from different lands, have lived different lives, pursued different goals- but now we are all here. If this is to be our home now, so be it. The Natha in their Space Ship have saved us and brought us to live here. So we shall live; we must. There are some forces against which men cannot fight and this must be one of them.
But there are other matters against which we must stand. There are, in this land, two names that are an affront to anyone who would be free. Two names that, by their very existence, threaten the life we are to lead here. They are the very antithesis of everything towards which free people strive, as they stand in the way of free people ruling themselves.
These names are 'king' and 'empress'.
[He doesn't have time to go into why these things are terrible. It's disconcerting to speak to no-one, to have no response. But he expects others will respond and it is to them directly that he plans to make his arguments. He has seen other conversations on the network, approved of this free and open means of communication. He'll use it for himself.]
There are some of you who have been awake longer than I. It may be that I am wrong in my assumptions. The names king and empress may be different from the titles I was familiar with in my former life. I can only hope it is so. I welcome all details you have. If you fear speaking of such things publicly I am willing to meet in person to exchange information.
[He gives a formal nod and cuts the feed.]
[It's been less than a week someone tell him to chill out.]
The honor of nations consists in being free and virtuous, in striking down tyrants and avenging reviled humanity.
[-or not.
You might mistake the age of the fiery-eyed young blond, he looks so young, except there's a gravity in his voice as he speaks and a serious set to his brow.]
I do not know you, fellow citizens, nor you me. I will introduce myself. My family name is Enjolras. I have five and twenty years and before the Storm I was a student of law in Paris.
We are from different lands, have lived different lives, pursued different goals- but now we are all here. If this is to be our home now, so be it. The Natha in their Space Ship have saved us and brought us to live here. So we shall live; we must. There are some forces against which men cannot fight and this must be one of them.
But there are other matters against which we must stand. There are, in this land, two names that are an affront to anyone who would be free. Two names that, by their very existence, threaten the life we are to lead here. They are the very antithesis of everything towards which free people strive, as they stand in the way of free people ruling themselves.
These names are 'king' and 'empress'.
[He doesn't have time to go into why these things are terrible. It's disconcerting to speak to no-one, to have no response. But he expects others will respond and it is to them directly that he plans to make his arguments. He has seen other conversations on the network, approved of this free and open means of communication. He'll use it for himself.]
There are some of you who have been awake longer than I. It may be that I am wrong in my assumptions. The names king and empress may be different from the titles I was familiar with in my former life. I can only hope it is so. I welcome all details you have. If you fear speaking of such things publicly I am willing to meet in person to exchange information.
[He gives a formal nod and cuts the feed.]
[It's been less than a week someone tell him to chill out.]
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Are you a true knight, or is the name you give yourself only a vanity? The king holds no power but what people give him. If people do not consent to give him that power, he takes it by force- that is what the army is for. The power does not vanish with the king.
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I was one of the finest knights in Westeros, and I, like my king, earned the trust of the people. We did not take it like others before him.
[ Or others after. ]
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And yet if there were a village who refused to pay taxes to the king, you and his army would ride there to demand their obedience. You'd use the sword or the stocks or jail to force them to do what your king wanted.
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You cannot say 'the people loved him' as though it is truth. Your king may have been a kinder tyrant than others, but to be a king is to take freedom from the people. There would have been unrest, dissent. And what then?
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