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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.]
no subject
[ It doesn’t come out condescending, for whatever that may be worth. ]
You are new here, yes? Do you think it just to impose your agenda onto a people you barely know? Have you heard the voices of the people calling for change? Do you know how it is they live or how their rulers lead them after mere days?
Furthermore, we are outsiders in this world, and while our role may yet be bigger, no one will look upon us with kindness now should we decide to rise up and overturn the current rulers. Some of our number have already been used by those who would take advantage of our ignorance to do the people of Olympia and Wyver harm.
no subject
But then he reveals-] Used? By who?
no subject
[ He frowns. Someone very close to him nearly lost their life to that illness, and it isn’t pleasant to recall. ]
If their aim was to get Olympia and Wyver to work together, then they went about it poorly, involving innocent civilians as well as us, but all we were able to discern was that we have barely scratched the surface of this group.