fiddlesticks 25, video from standard coach: open to all

[blitzcheer]

Sooooo, not being able to talk to most of the train that day sucked, huh? I don't know what to think about any of that, but since we can talk to each other now, I was thinking: How about we share where we're from, and see who's from worlds like ours?

And who speaks the same languages too! An actual list be better if that ever happens again, but for now, tell us about the kind of place you're from, what makes home home to you! You got kings or dragons? Machines? Portals to other worlds? Talking sea life? You just trying to get through school?

I'll go first to give you guys an idea, but share whatever you feel like!


( ooc: this is open to all, meaning feel free to put up a post and chat with other characters! )

Comments

[blitzcheer]

Hey, I didn't wanna start this goin' off on a history lesson, you know? I was trying to keep it short!

[ Give him a breeak. ]

But fine, fine. There was a big war a thousand years ago between a summoner city and a city that used machines. When it was turning out the summoner city was losing, they decided to create a giant summon that'd basically keep coming back a year after it was defeated, 'cause nobody really knew the right way to take it out. So you've got this big fiend going around destroying everything, and especially any big cities.

[ He sighs, disliking the explanation so far, but regardless. ] So because most of the world was getting destroyed by this thing, some people got together and made a religion saying that if you followed it, you stopped using machina and you repented, Sin--what they called the summon--would stop coming back.

So after a thousand years of dealing with a giant flying whale that'd attack your villages once in a while, and letting summoners go off to sacrifice themselves to take it down for a while, that's the way it ended up.

[theturksway]

[ ................. ]



[Man, his world had this shit easy. At least they were bouncing back and Sephiroth and WEAPON and all that shit were (mostly) gone and done with by now. They even still had cell phones!]



Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's the definition of insanity, ya know.

Why the hell didn't anyone think to try something different, yo!?

[blitzcheer]

'Cause anyone who did got disgraced. The Al Bhed, who found the airship and still used machina--they didn't believe in the teachings or the way people did things, and everyone treated them like outcasts for it.

Even people who came together to protect villages and tried to take on Sin with the Al Bhed got disgraced for trying. [ He frowns, shoulders slumping with a breath taken. ] No one knew the real deal behind Sin 'cept the ones at top. And even they didn't think there was any other way of taking down Sin.

[ He spreads his hands. ] On top of that... people dying in Spira makes them come back as fiends. And Sin's body was made from the dead too.

[ Tidus's sombre tone = the reason he didn't open up with this story. ]

[theturksway]

...a thousand years ago and no one thought 'hey, this religion is wonky, why the hell should we create it'?

You know what... people are idiots. I'm just gonna go with that, yo. People. Are. Idiots.

[But especially your people, Tidus. Spirans are fucking retarded.]

[blitzcheer]

[ It's not like Tidus can't really argue with nobody trying anything sooner, but. ]

Well, it's over now. Sin's gone, the truth got out, and the world's changing.

[theturksway]

...Eh. Good for them. Took 'em long enough.