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[supercatty]

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[supercatty]

Oh.

[okay, well that concept she gets]

I don't know who birthed me. And the person who raised me is-- [. . .]

[she bristles, hair standing on end, ears flattening again]

Whatever. I don't care about her.

[chevaliered]

... Yeah, sometimes people just suck, no matter how they're related to you.

[ he'd press but uh... that topic dismissal was so fast he has whiplash. ]

But that's pretty much the run down. Gramps was my grandpa. He was a good man.

[supercatty]

[lmao yeah, she's not talking about the can of worms that is Shadow Weaver]

Sounds like it. You're-- lucky, to have a guy like that in your life.

[chevaliered]

Yeah. I was really lucky. There are far worse parental figures out there in the world. Met of few of them in the past couple of years too.

[supercatty]

[lol. if Shadow Weaver really is a parent figure. . .]

[. . . ANYWAY]

Yeah? I hope they got what was coming to them.

[chevaliered]

A couple of them did. Jury's out on the last one.

'Course things turned out to be complicated and an aidios-damned half there too.

[supercatty]

[. . . aidios???]

You keep using words that mean absolutely nothing to me.

[BUT. ANYWAY]

Sounds like the lives of the people you know are super complicated. Sucks to be them, right?

[chevaliered]

I mean. Probably not? Aidios is like… worshipped by the church? Sometimes your local deity invades your dialect. It happens.

Literally give me any example where things didn’t go south, complicated themselves and then wrap themselves up in several knots. Class VII are just… really good at being right there in the centre of everything when the mess up starts, y’know?

[supercatty]

[they don't have "gods" in Etheria, though the concept somewhat exists?? so she makes an understanding noise and doesn't inquire further]

Oh, yeah. I'm familiar with that type.

[lol lookin' at you Adora]

So what's this "Class VII" you're talking about?

[chevaliered]

[ lmao adora. ]

Literally my class. Like, my school class. Class VII.

[supercatty]

Like. . .

Cats 2019?

[a class like that. a class about cats singing and dancing]

[chevaliered]

Cat 2019 is a individual, singular experience meant to mess with our minds and sanity. Class VII is more like a group, and we did most classes and independent work together.

I guess more like the dorms? But if the dorms had to go to homeroom together. It’s the people, not the topic of study, that makes Class VII.

[supercatty]

Oh.

[she has learned something today!!]

. . . kind of like my group of cadets back home. The one I was trained with.

[chevaliered]

... Yeah, it kinda is like cadets. The plan is usually that you phase into the military after, but not everyone does.

[ ... ]

Military life, huh? Apparently it doesn't change much between worlds.

[supercatty]

[ah. . . right. hadn't he also mentioned something about being military?]

Yeah. Wouldn't think that it would.

War is war no matter where you go. And soldiers are soldiers.

[chevaliered]

Well, the motivations and opposition tend to change. Sometimes your home country likes to funnel all their tech investments into war and then things just get stupid.

[ erebonia is stupid. why don’t they have tv for everyone. ]

[supercatty]

Motivations and opposition don't change the other aspects of it.

[violence and victims and power-hungry generals and. . . people like herself, raised in a war-heavy environment with no practical knowledge of what actually existed outside of base. . .]

[BUT ANYWAY]

Funneling all resources into fighting is what good armies do. At least-- [well]

[she shrugs here. IT'S WHAT THE HORDE DID]

[chevaliered]

Sure, but not everyone is so into their expansionism. I mean most people don’t care, it’s just how life is and Erebonia is powerful, y’know? But then you get organisations who oppose them and everything becomes a whole mess.

[ he shrugs. ]

I can’t really say much. I went to a military academy, after all. But y’know… not so interested in joining the army at the end of it all.

… Your home do the same sort of thing?

[supercatty]

[lol]

I didn't really have a choice. The Horde is an army. Everyone in it wants the same thing.

[the COMPLETE SUBJUGATION OF THE PRINCESS REBEL ALLIANCE AND FULL CONTROL OVER ALL OF ETHERIA!!]

I guess that's why it was called the "Horde."

[chevaliered]

... But if you're part of it, then... you made the choice to join it? Or was it kind of a --

[ he waves a hand. how does one phrase this? ]

"Your destiny in life is to be part of this team and fight in this glorious war and there is no other option"?

[supercatty]

[. . . HEAVES A DEEP SIGH, and she continues in a nonchalant tone, like it isn't that big of a deal]

I was born there, I guess. Grew up there. They lie a lot to their recruits to indoctrinate them with the Horde mentality. I always knew they were lying to us, manipulating us, but--

[. . .]

[sometimes, when you have nowhere else to belong. . .]

Anyway, I'm not a part of them anymore.

[chevaliered]

…

Sounds like some Ouroboros level shit, except I don’t think they indoctrinate their members. Actually, I have no idea how they work when they let members come and go in the way they do, but go off I guess.

[ … ]

That where you know Adora from? Or… did you run into her on a mission? She knows what she’s doing when it comes to fighting… and her profile mentions combat tactics so I assumed she’s been trained.

[supercatty]

[what's Ouroboros??? she doesn't ask, though. mostly because he swaps the subject to Adora]

She grew up with them, too. We've been-- friends since we were kids.

[why does she trip over the word friends!!]

. . . she was way more naive than I was about the Horde's true purpose, though.

[chevaliered]

[ .... cute. lesbians. ]

... Yeah, some people are either just naive or just really, really want to see the good in people so they end up a little blind, huh?

[supercatty]

[. . .]

Adora's the latter, though she has a little bit of both in her.