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USERNAME: ELSWHISPERER SETSUNA F. SEIEI MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM 00 TEXT • AUDIO • VIDEO • ACTION • OVERFLOW

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[elswhisperer]

[ That's a good question. He takes his time answering. ]

It's because we've lived different lives.

I believe it's that simple.

Our experiences shape our senses of justice.

A person who grows up in a war zone fighting to survive and a person who grows up in relative safety may both detest violence, but they'll probably have trouble seeing eye to eye any more than that.

The one who knows only war might think diplomacy is useless.

The one who knows only peace might think all violence is wrong, no matter what.

[icanfixer]

[ the past that led her here...

... is not one she thinks back on often, and so she does not now; the present, the future, have more to offer than that which lies behind. if what sinclair said was true in that basement, then her time is to come sooner or later, drawn by the whims of fate towards a golden bough

but not here, and so she doubles down on it mattering not. ]

I SEE THY POINT
WHAT HAS THINE BEEN LIKE?

[elswhisperer]

I've always been fighting. For a long time, it was the only thing I knew how to do.

[ The child who grows up in a war zone and dismisses diplomacy because peace talks didn't stop the slaughter -- that was him. ]

Because of that, my fight is to change the world. So that there are no longer victims of war... or people like me.

[icanfixer]

IT IS A STORY THAT IS RATHER COMMON AMONG THOSE WHO HAVE LIVED WITHIN THE CONFINES OF THE BACKSTREETS IN MY CITY
THERE IS A COMPANION OF MINE WHOM THEE WOULD GET ALONG WITH
WHO HAS LIVED A LIFE SIMILAR TO THEE, AND WHO STRIVES FOR THE SAME IN HER OWN WAY
THOUGH I DO NOT KNOW IF THEE WOULD AGREE WITH HER METHOD
MUCH AS THEE DO NOT AGREE WITH MINE
BUT MISTRESS RODYA HAS A KIND HEART AND A DESIRE TO ENSURE THOSE AROUND HER DO NOT WANT FOR ANYTHING
THAT THEY DO NOT FEEL IT NECESSARY TO STRIKE AGAINST ONE ANOTHER
NOR EAT ONE ANOTHER
SIMPLY TO SURVIVE THEMSELVES
SHE IS MOST ADMIRABLE

[elswhisperer]

There's something I've become sure of since I've arrived here.

There are people in every world who are trying to help those around them, doing their best with the tools they have, following the values they earnestly believe in.

[ People want to do good, and that matters. ]

Tell me about her method.

[icanfixer]

IN ORDER TO BRING ABOUT SOME PEACE TO HER STARVING NEIGHBORS
WHOM HADN'T ENOUGH MONEY FOR EVEN A MOMENT'S WORTH OF PEACE
SHE STRUCK AN AXE THROUGH THE HEAD OF AN OLD WOMAN WHO HAD BEEN KEEPING THEIR MONEY FOR HERSELF WITHIN A SAFE
A TAX COLLECTOR WHO WRUNG THE BONES OUT OF THE PEOPLE SHE LIVED ABOVE
IT CAME WITH CONSEQUENCES, FOR THE COLLECTOR'S SISTER WAS OF IMPORT IN THOSE BACKSTREETS
BUT FOR A MOMENT
MISTRESS RODYA AND THE OTHERS HAD A TASTE OF WHAT A QUALITY LIFE WAS
OF WHAT ALL DESERVE TO HAVE

I CANNOT CALL WHAT SHE DID AN INJUSTICE
IF THERE IS UNFAIRNESS IN THE SYSTEM, IT MUST BE ROOTED OUT

[elswhisperer]

I feel the same.

[ Find what it is that makes the world twisted, and destroy it.

He's been living by that principle since he first saw a Gundam. There's no circumstance under which Setsuna could condemn what Rodya did. ]

[icanfixer]

[ ... heehee. ]

THEN THEE WOULD GET ALONG WELL
IT IS WHY SHE AND I DO TOO
ALONG WITH HER BEING A VERY GOOD FRIEND, WHO IS EASY TO SPEAK WITH AND IS PERHAPS THE MOST EASYGOING OF US ALL
IT IS NOT A TOPIC SHE WILL SPEAK ON HOWEVER
THOUGH I THINK IT ADMIRABLE OF HER MYSELF
MANY OF US ARE LIKE THAT, AND FEEL THE SAME AS SHE