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Who: Kaneis Major
Broadcast: Video
Action: SS. Wonderduck
When: February 27th

[Action or Video Broadcast: Filtered to the crew of the Wonderduck]

Hey, we'll probably be leaving in a few days. So is there anything else you guys want from these moons? I can keep an eye out for it.

I mean, unless it's meat. I'm sick of grabbing that stuff, so you're on your own there.

[Public Network Encryption: Public]

[Oh look, maybe he's actually going to be social for once. From the background, it looks like he's hanging out in his ship's quarters. Near him, there looks like there's a tree coming out of the hull. Ah, life with a fairy nature. Also, his hair is short]

So...I've been wondering this for awhile- but is it normal for worlds not to have monsters? Because I've noticed a pretty big lack of them everywhere we go.

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[You know at this point, he doesn't even notice the hair color changes anymore. Whatever, it'll turn back to...something soon. What was her natural color again?]

What's interesting?

That...doesn't make sense. I know that world's pretty low on magic- but how could Earth still be alive if they had it but lost it all? [HE'S PRETTY SURE YOU NEED THAT. A LOT OF HIS FAMILY DID DIE FOR THAT YOU KNOW]

[Mysteries.]

I dunno, surprise me. It's my birthday in a couple of days.

[She smiles at that, a little. It sure would be nice to do something at least a little neat. She's so restless, right now.

Meanwhile her plant just wriggles out of its flower pot and skitters off somewhere. She waves it off before turning back to the feed.]

I'm guessing worlds where you're from sustain themselves on magical energy? Not all of them do, strange as it may sound. Though it should be said that my Earth did fall into different sorts of strife for different reasons because of the lack of magic.

It is?

[This is new information!]

Sorta. Life comes from the same energy that happens to be used for magic too. [Something like that] What kind of strife?

March first, the first day of Spring in a lot of places.

[She's only mentioning it now because she sure is lacking some inhibitions.]

But wars, incredible amounts of pollution, crimes. The Terrestial Fairies kept the balance of the world, but they'd been gone for centuries. Humans stopped believing in magic as a result of their absence, and everything declined. It could have been a lot worse, there are still a lot of things to like about Earth as it was, but people there were also...disconnected. It was pretty difficult to get them to start believing in magic, again.

That is coming up. Happy Birthday.

[gifts are protocol for that right? He'll have to see what to do]

...You know, that sort of stuff still happens even with magic around, Flora. That's more just part of humanity. [And if they stopped believing because some fairies ditched them? He's not really surprised- he would've stopped believing too]

[She looks so genuinely happy in hearing it and holds her face in her hands.]

Thank you!

That isn't just humans it's more often just...people. I was actually in the middle of working to either prevent or prepare to fight in one before all this happened. [She waves a hand. All this being Exsilium, now Drift Fleet, all of it.] I wouldn't be what I am if I didn't know that. But it's possible to remedy ignorance, knowing malice not so much.

I'm a being of nature, I'll be the first to tell you that sometimes conflict and chaos are actually very necessary, sometimes. Balance doesn't mean perfection. [Perfection is synonymous with stagnation, after all.] The problem here was that things were greatly exacerbated on different fronts, and the wrong beings benefited from it. [Her voice darkens and hardens a shade.]

Hmm...I guess that's true. The other races on my world aren't exactly peaceful. [Except maybe Katz. As far as he knew anyway. Not that any humans knew much about those guys]

[But he considers what she says]

I see...so the problem was forces that didn't use magic had way too much of the control and did a lot of bad with it. So your plan was to just...balance that out? Give the other side an edge?

No, they had magic, too. That was also part of the problem. They being evil wizards. [She takes a breath, considering.] On Earth, humans and fairies used to live together in harmony and magic was plentiful, but the Wizards of the Black Circle hunted them all, either killing or capturing them to add to their power. Fairies became myths and the stuff of, well, fairy tales over time because of it. The wizards also fed off discord and strife, and often sowed it around the world, but sometimes they didn't have to. Humans were giving them power, and they didn't even know it.

[She's faced a lot of enemies, but the wizards were an especially nasty piece of work.]

The plan was to get humans believing in magic again to restore balance, and to find and free the fairies.

[He listens, frowning. There's really, only one thing you can say to a story like that] Jeez... What a bunch of assholes.

Did the plan work? Tell me it did.

Pretty much. [Flora doesn't swear, of course, but the sentiment is there.]

It did! [She smiles genuinely but then her voice goes a bit light, affecting nonchalance in that this-is-definitely-a-bigger-deal-than-I-want-you-to-think-it-is sort of way.] I mean when we freed the earth fairies they were kind of very...upset and wanted revenge on the wizards, as well as humans for forgetting them, but they came around!

Oh, that's good then.

Except- wait. You didn't let them have revenge on the wizards that imprisoned and killed their friends? What happened to the wizards then?

[What happened to the wizards, indeed. She inhales and makes a thoughtful noise. It's been a bit of a while, now, and she can talk about it, but there had been lessons to learn there.]

Well, they'd said they'd regretted what they'd done and were to stand trial, but, it was a ploy to try and capture them all all over again. They failed, though thanks to a friend. [Her voice tempers just a little sadly. It wasn't without cost.]

In the end, it came down to my friends and them, and they lost. They're frozen alive in one of the worst prisons in the entire dimension.

[The Omega Dimension is a great, fun place.]

[....]

Wow. And people here say having prisoners fight in Meltokio's Coliseum is cruel. [WHAT THE ACTUAL SHIT.] You guys don't mess around when you get pissed off, huh.

The Omega Dimension is not a nice place, it's where the worst of the absolute worst end up--that, or Oblivion. They either go straight there or end up there when they refuse to work with rehabilitation. The wizards fled there, and even though my friends and I could have been the ones stuck if we lost, nobody argued against the wizards being there when we won, either. It was as much survival as it was a sentence.

[SHE SHOULDN'T THROW STONES AT GLASS HOUSES BUT NO MAKING PEOPLE FIGHT IS REALLY MESSED UP.]

That really happens, though?

...Sounds like it's a place they deserve then, all the crap they pulled.

[Still. Frozen for all eternity. Dat's rough]

Hm? You mean the Coliseum?

Edited 2015-02-28 08:55 (UTC)

Most definitely. And it means so many more people--and the world itself, in some ways--can have a fresh start.

[Flora's not losing sleep over it, that's for sure.]

Yeah, the Coliseum. I'm having a hard time wrapping my head around it. [She's trying to picture her own enemies fighting one another and--okay, actually, in some cases, it actually wouldn't be so farfetched, but for an audience?] Where's the justice in that? And how does anyone get them to comply?

[.........]

...Hold up. You just described sending your enemies into a prison where they are frozen alive for eternity, and you're wondering about ethics of my people's justice system?

[I mean, he knows damn well Tethe'alla's justice system has serious flaws but COME ON EVEN THEY WOULDN'T FREEZE THEIR ENEMIES ALIVE FOREVER]

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