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driftfleet2015-05-26 07:01 pm
serpentis) wrote in driftfleet2015-05-26 07:01 pm
007 // blink and you'll miss a revolution
Who: Dorian!
Broadcast: Fleet-wide!
Action: On the Three Twins
When: 5/26, night
Well, now that we've all gotten our fill of rampant debauchery, I thought I might pose a little question to you, Fleet. A more...somber question.
[Dorian looks considering for a moment, and when he speaks, he talks with his hands as much as his mouth. It seems like a subject he's certainly into, that's for sure.]
What would you do if, for example, you disagreed with the politics of your home? What measures would you go to? At what cost would you ensure that things were righted, were changed for the better?
[He raises a brow.]
Would you kill for it? Would you bring about chaos and disarray because the end would justify those means, as it were? How many deaths can be justified by a revolutionary change? 10? 100? Thousands? If it were for the greater good, how many lives could you sacrifice?
[He brings the hand back to his chin, thinking.]
Color me curious. What are your politics there?
Broadcast: Fleet-wide!
Action: On the Three Twins
When: 5/26, night
Well, now that we've all gotten our fill of rampant debauchery, I thought I might pose a little question to you, Fleet. A more...somber question.
[Dorian looks considering for a moment, and when he speaks, he talks with his hands as much as his mouth. It seems like a subject he's certainly into, that's for sure.]
What would you do if, for example, you disagreed with the politics of your home? What measures would you go to? At what cost would you ensure that things were righted, were changed for the better?
[He raises a brow.]
Would you kill for it? Would you bring about chaos and disarray because the end would justify those means, as it were? How many deaths can be justified by a revolutionary change? 10? 100? Thousands? If it were for the greater good, how many lives could you sacrifice?
[He brings the hand back to his chin, thinking.]
Color me curious. What are your politics there?
no subject
[Dorian is right, though, for the most part: Anders doesn't care. Or, at least, the rationale he gives himself is that it's a fight he has no stake in and isn't affected by, so the only thing caring about it will do is wear him out. Even fights that he does have stake in wear him out for all the good that caring about them does— which is to say, nothing.
There's something to be said for idealism, maybe, even if most of those things are said in self-aggrandizing history books and children's stories. He's reminded of Justice, incidentally, though he imagines every Thedosian on this fleet would be appalled by the comparison, save maybe for Hawke, who might just laugh.
You have seen oppression, and are now free. You must act to free those who remain oppressed.
Anders ignored that too, or tried to. The fact that he still thinks about it even now may be more revealing than anything else.]
What is it exactly you're trying to do with all this, if that's what it's about? Drum up support? Get some intergalactic aid against the magisters?
[What he's hearing is just a lot of words, more or less. The reality is, things don't change, no matter how many speeches you give. This different version of himself Hawke mentions on occasion, the one who tried, the one who cared— Anders doesn't see that in himself. Months later, he still isn't sure it all hasn't been a massive misunderstanding.]