/takes the huntress out back and buries it (jan mingle pt. II)

[scrubscrub]

Who: Anyone on the SS Huntress! Crew and visitors.
Broadcast: N/A
Action: SS Huntress
When: More of January! We got three new crew mates and it will be messy.

IT'S ANOTHER MINGLE FOR OUR EVER-EXPANDING SHIP.

Also, we need an update on how well Koala is doing at pinball.

God, help this ship.

Comments

[eyeforaneye]

We can't maintain a conversation if I don't offer my opinion on your words, unless you want me to ignore the topic and pick a new one.

If I derailed from something important to you so suddenly then you'd probably internalize it a little, find it offensive that I was dismissive after dragging you into an honest conversation, and then think about it later. I was sparing you that. [ Yeah. They're similar. ]

1/2

[honorbends]

[ well when you put it that way ]

[honorbends]

[ . . . sigh. ]

My father took the throne from his older brother, my uncle. He's responsible for the disappearance of my mother, and my sister is locked away because she's not safe left to her own devices. He tried to strip me from my birthright for speaking out of turn at a meeting, because I didn't want to send our soldiers to certain death as a diversion during a battle.

[ which is, clearly, what happened to his face. ]

I have no intention of becoming as much of a coward as someone who decides to challenge a thirteen year old to a fight to the death, because of injured pride and a need to prove himself. That isn't who I am, and that isn't the legacy I'm going to leave my family with. I'll abdicate the throne to someone else before I allow that to happen.

[eyeforaneye]

[ Speaking out against his father at that age? There's a courage that Sasuke had never had as a child, or at least that he'd never had the opportunity to show. Self-reflection has become such a huge part of his life and still he feels like he's unable to properly put the pieces of his past together to form all the 'what-ifs' that'd likely cause nothing but pain anyway. ]

... the struggle of that kind of upbringing makes a few common pitfalls more obvious to you. [ Sasuke's thought that for a while now, however, that the best kind of leader is one that's not only experienced the suffering of his people but that has also gained a full respect for avoiding the mistakes of his predecessors. ]

It's important to give those situations and circumstances that would've seemed better if they were changed their own sense of worth. It makes them easier to swallow.