supercatty | [catch all for crow]

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.

Oh.

[she has learned something today!!]

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

... 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.

[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.

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. ]

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]

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?

[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."

... 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"?

[. . . 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.

…

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.

[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.

[ .... 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?

[. . .]

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

[ ... heh. ]

Sounds like someone I know. The whole... believing in the good in people part. Kinda overwhelming, right?

[immediately]

Extremely overwhelming. Especially when she rushes into things to be some kind of hero. It doesn't always have to be you, Adora!

And then, like... there's no asking for help. I mean, I prefer working alone, but when he's got something like over twenty people who would burn the earth if he asked them nicely and he still tries to go it alone for the good of everyone--

[ he waves his hands, frustratedly ]

There's altruism and then there's stupidity mixed with stubborness.

[ a cat and a bird rant about their spouses for two hours ]

[this is how they BOND]

Adora doesn't even like working alone. She's got, you know, her whole loser princess squad. And she still would rather barge into everything head-first without a plan and do all of the work on her own.

[HOW DID THEY GET HERE]

I mean, same? All of Class VII is right there and Rean's like "no, I will take this burden on myself and then wonder why I'm spiralling to a breakdown later on".

[ ... wait-- ]

Princess squad?

. .. you should ask her about it.

That's either the best name for a battle unit if you want to throw someone off, or she's really into cheerleading or something.

What's cheerleading?

[so it's not that one]

Some kind of crazy athletic sport where people are super strong and flexible and do stuff like defy gravity by doing fifteen backflips in a row and then holding seven of their friends on their shoulders.

[ what the fuck is exaggeration ]

[. . . . ???]

That doesn't sound too hard.

[you are speaking with a cat, Crow]

[ yeah she’s in her own category ]

For a lot of people it kinda is, Kitkat.

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