Open mingle for the First Breath

[treasureling]

Who: Everyone on the First Breath! Including newbs, if any are assigned today
Broadcast: Maybe?!
Action: First Breath
When: 2/7-2/14? About the next week

[ Mingle post for the First Breath (& guests)! ]

Comments

[proteusmoon]

Have you had a lot of experience with seventeen-year-olds?

[sensationate]

I was a seventeen year old with a lot of other seventeen year olds. I remember what they're like.

[proteusmoon]

I don't think I was a typical seventeen-year-old.

I didn't personally know many others, at least.

[sensationate]

Typicality has nothing to do with it. Were you home schooled or just a recluse?

[proteusmoon]

Hmmmm... I'm not sure what you mean by "home-schooled".

[ What other kind of schooling is there? ]

I was trained from an early age for knighthood.

[sensationate]

Schooled at home. [ He squints. ] As opposed to public schooling.

Literal and actual knighthood?

[proteusmoon]

[ She kind of squints back. She's not understanding what the difference between these two concepts is. ]

Literal and actual knighthood.

[ She nods in affirmation. ]

I'm afraid I don't have some sort of identification to prove it.

[sensationate]

I'd believe it, considering how they take everything of ours when we arrive here. [ Yes, he still misses his stuff. How dare they. ] But it's not like having proof would grant you any authority here anyway, so I don't really care. What is it you do here?

[proteusmoon]

What does my knighthood have to do with authority anywhere?

[sensationate]

Knights are generally on orders from their queen or king and act like the officials in disputes, don't they? Some kind of royal power decreed to them.

[ no he doesn't actually know, shut up ]

[proteusmoon]

[ In his defense, he's not too far from the truth. Just... well, Cecil hasn't done the whole "follow the monarch's orders" in over a year now, in part because... er, she is the aforementioned queen now. But she's not telling most people that. ]

The queen mandates a small force of the country's citizens with the authority to settle inner disputes and intervene should matters get out of hand. The royal guard protects the queen and the orders of knights protect the country's interests outside the main city both within and outside the limits of the kingdom.

So, no, not really. Most knights are merely instruments utilized by those around them. A knight is a servant-- not a ruler.

[sensationate]

Yeah, but that's like trying to say the police don't have any power over the public. They do, even if they're ruled by the state who's ruled by the country. They definitely have authority.

[proteusmoon]

Who?

[ She's never heard of police. ]

[sensationate]

The police? The state? The country?

[ At this rate, he's willing to believe she's not heard of any of them. He's generous like that. ]

[proteusmoon]

[ It's a good thing he's new and she's making a conscious effort to get along with all of her crew now in spite of their differences, because otherwise, he probably would have gotten at least a smack upside the head. ]

The police. I used the word "country" myself just moments ago.

[sensationate]

Lots of people use words they don't know.

Police, though. They're like... officiators sponsored by the local governments to be a source of authority and peacemaking as recognized by the public. They deal with crimes issues of safety and the like.

[proteusmoon]

As I said, those are the mandated groups of individuals. We call them peacekeepers. Does your world have military forces?

[sensationate]

Yes, it does. Multiple different types of forces.

[proteusmoon]

The orders of knights are a branch of the nation's military. I served as captain of our air fleet myself.

[sensationate]

Oh, so you're the equivalent of the Air Force. Okay. You seem rather chill for military, if I do say so myself.

[proteusmoon]

Er, I seem... cold?

[ She's never heard someone use that phrase before. Okay, maybe the "generosity" wasn't completely unwarranted. ]

[sensationate]

[ Yeah, he's on the right wavelength in assuming total unfamiliarity with regular modern human things for sure. Jordan laughs at the comment. ]

Chill. Relaxed or otherwise nonchalant.

[proteusmoon]

[ This is going to get so confusing when the whole Lunarian thing comes into play-- but for now! ]

Oh. I see. My mistake. I haven't heard anyone describe it that way.

[ It makes sense though and she seems really appreciative of this new turn of words she's just learned. ]