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[braidedwonder]

So all this tension between Wyver and Olympia and stuff has me wondering...

Does this remind anyone else of before a war broke out in their homes? Granted I was like.. a little, little kid when mine first started but I remembered this kinda junk going on.

Earthers vs. spacers even out in the streets, that kinda thing.

People acting like they're better than other people because some politician says so, or, you know, some legacy story that makes one 'better' but, you know, when a place is destroyed because some politician wants money or whatever everyone starts looking a lot alike, right?

Also curious if anyone's planning on joining up with one side or the other and why, if you are..

No ulterior motives and definitely not taking names for a roster for someone or anything, just curious on why a refugee would feel so connected to a place already or something like that.

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[ofobedience]

If you placed yourself in the hands of those higher than yourself, you'd have no need of making decisions at all.

[braidedwonder]

Yeah.

No. I'm good on that.

[ofobedience]

Well.

What place have you chosen to reside in?

[braidedwonder]

Currently in Wyver.

They’re more like the people I’m used to.

[ofobedience]

You're accustomed to wildlife crawling all over the place, where you're from?

[In truth, he's probably better suited to Wyver, but the whole place had looked so different to what he's accustomed to that he'd found it more than a little unnerving.]

[braidedwonder]

Nah I'm actually from a space colony so.. less wildlife and more the general attitude of the people of Wyver.

Rougher people, you know. Less fancy clothes and more 'I'm gonna knock you out.'

[ofobedience]

Well, I take your point about the attitudes, it can all get rather tame over this neck of the woods. But there's never an excuse for bad dress sense.

[braidedwonder]

Yeah. The pomp and circumstance thing is not my look.

Bad dress sense? Shit, they don’t do too bad. It’s not my style but what do I care?

[ofobedience]

Oh, come on now. One should always strive towards elegance.

[braidedwonder]

Elegance is for people that have the time for it.

I'm just trying to stay ahead and stuff my account. Could care less about the extras.

[ofobedience]

And you think money is a loftier pursuit, do you?

[He hasn't a care for it himself, having never needed to handle it back there, his only interest in it now stretching to the suits and flowers he likes to buy, and occasionally (though not always) the rent.]

[braidedwonder]

Helps keep you alive, doesn't it?

I don't intend to go back to sleeping rough.

[ofobedience]

I can't say I've ever given it much consideration.

[braidedwonder]

The charmed life, huh?

[ofobedience]

Something like that.

[Something not like that at all, but he isn't about to expand on it here.]

[braidedwonder]

Vague is boring, you know.

[ofobedience]

What a pity for you. Besides, you wanted to talk about war, not horror stories.

[braidedwonder]

Is there that much of a difference, depending on how you grew up or whatever?

[ He only says it so flippantly because he knows some people would consider his childhood a horror story and well.. didn't really blame them. ]

[ofobedience]

There is, yes.

[It's how he sees it, at least. A story of artificially created monsters in a place not unlike hell-- what passes for his childhood is a particular brand of horror.]

[braidedwonder]

Care to tell me about it? I'm curious now.

[ofobedience]

Some other time, perhaps. Tales of terror require the right atmosphere, do they not?

[braidedwonder]

Right now you're just making me feel like I'm going in to a Halloween haunted house, not actually hearing anything crazy.

[ofobedience]

And that's likely to be the way it'll remain, for now.

[Really, he's not about to go into details of his monstrous existence in a public space like this.]

[braidedwonder]

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Your call man.