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[steeledskin]

Who: Sansa Stark, and you!
Broadcast: Fleetwide; Anonymous
Action: Blue Fish, Iskaulit
When: Afternoon to late evening

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What should you do if someone you have never met -- never in your life -- hates you? What should you do if they are rude and horrible and ill-mannered and they won't tell you why?

I have done bad things. I know I have. But nothing to deserve this.

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[ when she isn't indulging in her very self-centered sort of misery, sansa is aboard the blue fish. she has finally decided to make a brave attempt to decorate the door to her room, and so far has only managed to paint the bone-white bark of what will eventually be a tree.

and then -- well after the hour when she ought to have been in bed -- sansa does something unanticipated. unexpected. she takes a shuttle all by herself! and she lets it pilot her back to the iskaulit, where she walks the halls with slow and careful purpose until she arrives at the garden. she makes a seat for herself far from the door, and she breathes in the smell of soil and plant-life. already, and despite its bewitching magicks, she misses the well-wooded planet so recently departed. ]

Comments

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[beardstrokes]

Hatred is rarely logical. If they do hate you, you can either choose to subvert their opinions by showing them how you are or ignore it.

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[steeledskin]

Mayhaps I should ignore it, then. I would not know how to do the former.

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[ino]

I guess that would be kind of annoying to deal with - but if you don't even know who they are, does their opinion really matter all that much? It's their own fault if you've been nice and they still can't see your good points.

[takingkarabusiness]

Live your life. You don't need that kind of negativity.

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[steeledskin]

[ has she been nice? no -- she's been polite, but she hasn't been nice. sansa knows that much about herself. ]

It isn't an opinion I worry about. What if he [ after a moment she adds ] or she intends to act upon their hatred?

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[beardstrokes]

Constant interactions could change a person's opinion, if you are determined enough to try it.

In the end, though, there's no pleasing everyone.

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[ino]

Oh, so it's like that? Do you think they'd try to hurt you?

[steeledskin]

How do you live your life with someone glaring at you?

[ to be fair, he'd been staring. and to be fairer, he'd promised to stop. and yet she remains concerned. ]

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[steeledskin]

[ -- but she'll try all the same. at least outwardly. hollowly. ]

Doesn't that also risk enraging them further?

[takingkarabusiness]

I thought you said you never met them?

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[steeledskin]

I couldn't say. [ a pause. ] I know not the content of their character. They could be a good person. Or they could be wretched.

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[beardstrokes]

Of course. There's always some risk inherent in any interactions we have. There's no guarantee of success or even forging a relationship.

But there is the guarantee that nothing will change if you don't try.

[steeledskin]

Not before the Fleet. And yet they disliked me from the first moment. I would swear to it.

[takingkarabusiness]

Just don't let it get to you. Find yourself in places away from them. They're not on your ship, are they?

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[steeledskin]

I don't want to forge anything. I want only... [ to be safe. ]

I want only to mean as little to them as they mean to me.

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[reconstitution]

You can't control what people feel. Fuck their reasons, and fuck them. You have better things to do than worry about one person.

[steeledskin]

No.

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[beardstrokes]

Then avoidance would seem key to that.

Is he dangerous?

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[steeledskin]

[ but if experience has taught her anything, it's that she must worry about every person: their motives, their intentions, and their secrets.

abruptly: ] But I need to know.

[ is it something she can control? something she can change? something she can use to her advantage if only she understood the reasoning? ]

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[brainiest]

[ Hm. Hermione wonders who this could possibly be - she has an inkling, but that only comes because she's already spoken to Gendry and she knows Sansa a little better than the other woman believes she does, at least for now. ]

Maybe they're confused? I know that I've had mixed feelings about people that didn't deserve it, and it took me a long time to come to terms with how I felt.

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[noprophecies]

if they are too cowardly to say why they hate you, then they do not deserve you worrying about it

avoid them or tell them to go fuck themselves

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[ino]

[ Hmm ... this is a toughie. If it were her, it'd be easy not to care, since she can defend herself from most threats. But that might not be the case for this person.

Either way ... ]

Maybe if that person has other friends, you could try talking to them to see what their deal is? Maybe they were in a bad mood when they saw you, or you look like someone they know or something like that.

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[steeledskin]

Could be. [ she is so careful in her words. ] Big enough to be dangerous.

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[steeledskin]

They didn't act as a confused person acts.

[ or, more accurately, she couldn't adequately assess that confusion over the roaring deafening noise of her own confusion. ]

[takingkarabusiness]

It's hard, but you have to be the bigger person. They're the ones spending their energy on this. Your attention is valuable, and it seems like they're not doing much to earn it.

Unless you did do something to apologize for, but it seems like you haven't?