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Erik Lensherr ([info]serene_rage) wrote in [info]undertherainbow,
@ 2011-07-22 16:31:00

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Entry tags:bb lebeau, damien thorn, dar prethan, erik lensherr

I don't suppose anyone can tell me what's going on here?

A few moments ago I was ... somewhere else, and if the dates on the newspapers are to be believed, almost fifty years in the past.


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[info]serene_rage
2011-07-23 06:28 pm UTC (link)
This is all sounding terribly familiar.

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[info]shiftlinggirl
2011-07-23 06:32 pm UTC (link)
It's the same where you come from?

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[info]serene_rage
2011-07-23 06:34 pm UTC (link)
More or less. Though most don't know we exist, or, didn't until a few days ago.

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[info]shiftlinggirl
2011-07-23 06:37 pm UTC (link)
That's something, at least. Everyone knows we exist. There's a whole order of warriors dedicated just to capturing us, and they're the military arm of my country's primary religion, which means they're everywhere. What happened a few days ago, to give you away?

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[info]serene_rage
2011-07-23 06:41 pm UTC (link)
Some of us were recruited to stop world war three.

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[info]shiftlinggirl
2011-07-23 07:46 pm UTC (link)
There were world wars? Here? Multiple countries versus other multiple countries? Three implies one and two...this happened twice?

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[info]serene_rage
2011-07-23 07:54 pm UTC (link)
Yes, I can't be sure they happened here, since this seems to be a completely different reality than the one I know, which is one of the strangest things I've ever admitted, but yes, it did.

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[info]shiftlinggirl
2011-07-23 08:01 pm UTC (link)
I...don't think I can imagine that. Surely if it'd happened here we'd know, there'd be scars left all over the world. It'd be mentioned. Wouldn't it? You said you're from 1964...how long ago were the other world wars, for you?

We had...something like that...happening where I left. Not country versus country, exactly. Remember I said mages were captured and imprisoned? They started breaking out of the prisons. The entire religious system exploded as a result--subjugation of mages was both a religious and a political stance there, though not one everyone subscribed to--and it was happening in every country. Though a bit differently in each.

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[info]serene_rage
2011-07-23 08:17 pm UTC (link)
The first one was also called the Great War, and it happened between 1914 and 1918, the second one just happened, it took longer, from 1939 to 1945. One would think that people would learn after one not to have another, but they don't.

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[info]shiftlinggirl
2011-07-23 08:34 pm UTC (link)
I don't understand war. I don't think I ever will. It's unnatural to me. Survival, that I understand. Mass destruction...that makes no sense. It accomplishes nothing. A war between two countries is bad enough. That one happened more than two, taking sides, and twice...that's madness.

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[info]serene_rage
2011-07-24 04:11 am UTC (link)
Mostly I think it comes down to one group thinking they have to fight to survive against another group, or fight because they want something that the other group has.

Or, in some cases, because they're superior to the second group and want to wipe them out.

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[info]shiftlinggirl
2011-07-26 01:14 pm UTC (link)
Fighting to survive as an individual I understand. Every creature does that. But this...it's as though all the rats gang up to try and destroy all the cats, or vice-versa. That's just madness, to my mind.

Can't understand the superiority idea, either. Everything, everyone is important. How could someone honestly believe that just because they think someone else is inferior, that gives them the right to destroy them? I don't believe anyone or anything is inferior or superior to anyone or anything else, but even if I did, why not just ignore them instead? That seems much easier. And if they were inferior, surely they wouldn't be worth my notice, right?

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[info]serene_rage
2011-07-26 02:04 pm UTC (link)
You're certainly more forward-thinking than most I've met. The very idea that it doesn't even make sense to you is ... refreshing.

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[info]shiftlinggirl
2011-07-26 02:13 pm UTC (link)
It worries me that you don't seem to have met many people who can see the bigger picture, then. I don't see it as forward-thinking so much as animal logic. If you wipe out an entire species, it affects all the other species in the food chain, surely. This is really considered logical, where you're from?

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[info]serene_rage
2011-07-26 02:54 pm UTC (link)
Humans aren't really the most logical of creatures, I don't believe they ever have been, really.

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[info]shiftlinggirl
2011-07-26 03:00 pm UTC (link)
No...we're not, I suppose. I've never been sure if it's fear that makes us more complicated, or the fact that we have interests and desires aside from just food, shelter, and survival. Probably there's no way to be sure.

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[info]serene_rage
2011-07-26 03:49 pm UTC (link)
I'd blame it on the intellect, personally. As great a boon as it is, that sort of awareness, that knowledge, it does complicate things.

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[info]shiftlinggirl
2011-07-26 06:24 pm UTC (link)
That makes this conversation rather ironic, don't you think?

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[info]serene_rage
2011-07-26 08:08 pm UTC (link)
It does, a bit, doesn't it?

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[info]shiftlinggirl
2011-07-26 08:33 pm UTC (link)
Just a little.

So what kind of something-like-magic can you do, if you don't mind my asking? ...hope you don't mind my asking. I'm pretty curious by nature and it's just gotten worse since I came here.

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[info]serene_rage
2011-07-26 11:02 pm UTC (link)
I don't mind, though it's odd to me to be able to say so. I control metal, I know where it is, I can move it.

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[info]shiftlinggirl
2011-07-27 12:40 pm UTC (link)
I've never heard of anything like that! That must be incredibly useful. Especially in this world, where nearly everything seems to be made of metal. It might not have been so useful where I come from, but here...there's metal everywhere.

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[info]serene_rage
2011-07-27 01:52 pm UTC (link)
This place is amazing that way. People in my time used a lot of metal, but this is above and beyond even that.

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[info]shiftlinggirl
2011-07-27 06:47 pm UTC (link)
Where are you, exactly? I'm somewhere called London, at least for now. I think everything's made of metal. I find it pretty uncomfortable, to be honest, but you might like it. I wouldn't have thought it was possible for there to be this much metal. Just thinking of how much time it must take for it to be mined, and forged, and shaped, and built...it's beyond me.

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[info]serene_rage
2011-07-27 08:01 pm UTC (link)
I'm in New York, seems that whatever power brought me here decided I needed something almost familiar.

I'd imagine that it's much the same in London as it is here. Buildings are taller than I remember, but it's just as busy as ever.

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