It's important to be able to keep yourself like a pillar in times of duress. Otherwise, those who look up to you for guidance won't feel a sense of security under your leadership.
[Inner strength is something that Piety seems to take quite seriously.]
Yes, that's correct. On our own, each of us may have made a set of laws more direct, but because we've had twelve differing thoughts on the issue of this contest, everything's become...much more conditional, if that makes sense. There are so many contradicting ways of thinking in place, after all. That's why we need everyone to be a united front under the voice of a single ruler.
Like a pillar... You must have come from chaotic times.
[Said the robot to the mask. It's debatable whether either of them have really changed expression since the start of this conversation........]
From chaos may come order, is that right? You've placed quite the task before a group of people who are largely strangers to each other. This is about how you all expected this to go, isn't it? [it's not accusing, just matter-of-fact, because that's how Merriment presented it] But you seem to want something more from it.
Yes. Where I came from, I was born and ruled in a period of unrest--war between two kingdoms. I was the head of a neutral territory, tasked to attempt to find peace between them. So...I suppose you can say I have a bit of experience in this.
[Not exactly what's happening, but something similar, at least.]
What I want...aside from all of us to come to an agreement with one another, is to learn more about ourselves and each other. I know I'm already learning...I hope they are, as well.
My position was not one that I asked for, but since it was one that I had, I wanted to rise to it. I wanted to be...more than just someone with an obligation. So I found reasons worth acting for, and I did everything in my power to live up to it.
[There are many ways in which that wasn't an answer to her question, but she accepts it regardless.
She didn't ask in hopes of getting an answer, anyway.]
To simply do what you are given, be it duty or command, is to be an automaton. Perhaps that's funny, coming from a robot. [a little smile, vague] But we were all created for a purpose. It is simply that some are given purpose and meaning after, while others find meaning before purpose.
Will you see them again? Those who gave you meaning.
[She'll file that away for later. They're still mostly in the dark about how the gods came to be and how they came to be here -- what their future will be like beyond the end of this contest.
It's something to consider, alongside everything else. Her answer to the question, though, is unhesitating.]
Eternity.
The beauty of living things freed from time, and death, and all other constraints that may dim their light. The beauty of infinite possibility.
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[Inner strength is something that Piety seems to take quite seriously.]
Yes, that's correct. On our own, each of us may have made a set of laws more direct, but because we've had twelve differing thoughts on the issue of this contest, everything's become...much more conditional, if that makes sense. There are so many contradicting ways of thinking in place, after all. That's why we need everyone to be a united front under the voice of a single ruler.
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[Said the robot to the mask. It's debatable whether either of them have really changed expression since the start of this conversation........]
From chaos may come order, is that right? You've placed quite the task before a group of people who are largely strangers to each other. This is about how you all expected this to go, isn't it? [it's not accusing, just matter-of-fact, because that's how Merriment presented it] But you seem to want something more from it.
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[Not exactly what's happening, but something similar, at least.]
What I want...aside from all of us to come to an agreement with one another, is to learn more about ourselves and each other. I know I'm already learning...I hope they are, as well.
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[There's something quiet and resonant in the question, though she doesn't move from where she's seated.
It's barely louder than the babbling of the water feature near them.]
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[It's the truth.]
My position was not one that I asked for, but since it was one that I had, I wanted to rise to it. I wanted to be...more than just someone with an obligation. So I found reasons worth acting for, and I did everything in my power to live up to it.
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[There are many ways in which that wasn't an answer to her question, but she accepts it regardless.
She didn't ask in hopes of getting an answer, anyway.]
To simply do what you are given, be it duty or command, is to be an automaton. Perhaps that's funny, coming from a robot. [a little smile, vague] But we were all created for a purpose. It is simply that some are given purpose and meaning after, while others find meaning before purpose.
Will you see them again? Those who gave you meaning.
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[...]
What do you believe in, Luna, if I may ask?
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It's something to consider, alongside everything else. Her answer to the question, though, is unhesitating.]
Eternity.
The beauty of living things freed from time, and death, and all other constraints that may dim their light. The beauty of infinite possibility.