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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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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?

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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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