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[impure_tale]

Thank you for the use of your room during the flood, Henry, and I apologize for leaving it so late. It is yours again, however.

Doctor Jackson, and to all others that have contributed, thank you for the reading recommendations.

And now that all those pithy formalities have been taken care of, I wish to put the question to anyone who wants to give it some serious thought beyond "The Admiral enjoys making us suffer" because this can already be assumed:

What purpose does having our personalities forcibly changed serve?

And is this not the intention from the start? Why does the Admiral not simply make us the way he thinks we should be, if the whole point of this experience is to change us?

(ooc: once the flood wore off, the Marquis came back to himself and promptly realized he was sleeping in a bed that smelled like West. It got him a bit agitated. So there's now some long, flowery, pissed off letter written on West's bedsheets -- likely to be posted later -- the details of it, at least)

Comments

[tadwizard.livejournal.com]

I guess it's to make people more functional in society and be able to live and function without harming others in some way, shape or form.

I don't think it would mean as much if he just made your personality change. It wouldn't really be you, then, and you'd never realize what you did was wrong. Even if he put that knowledge in your head, it wouldn't be the same as finally deciding to be different.

[kurt-bamf.livejournal.com]

I hardly think anyone's personality is being forced to change, my friend.

[impure-tale.livejournal.com]

Do you not know how to read? Or did you sleep through the last flood?

[kurt-bamf.livejournal.com]

I read quite well, thank you, in two languages. And yes, I'm well aware of the last flood. But that was a sudden thing, a rough patch. Not something that happens every day.

[impure-tale.livejournal.com]

It happens enough, without any seeming reason, which you should have realized was the point of my questions.

[kurt-bamf.livejournal.com]

True, it happens at an alarming rate. Not something I enjoy. But unless he appoints other people to drive, there is little we can do about it.

[impure-tale.livejournal.com]

We're having two entirely different conversations, mon ami.

West's too mad to make this private

[major-west.livejournal.com]

You owe me new bedsheets.

[impure-tale.livejournal.com]

And you'll get those out of me how, dumpling?

[major-west.livejournal.com]

Then you're washing each and every word out of them.

[impure-tale.livejournal.com]

I have no idea what you are talking about.

[major-west.livejournal.com]

Funny. You've made so much noise about how people should own up to their own behaviour before, and now you refuse to do so with me.

[impure-tale.livejournal.com]

Would you like to have this conversation in the open, persimmon? All the little details? Or shall we continue in private?

[major-west.livejournal.com]

I'm not talking about any details right now, I'm just--

Don't call me one of your condescending little pet names!

[impure-tale.livejournal.com]

You're just having a tantrum.

And I'm not calling you anything I don't normally call you.

West is PMSing hard right now :c

[major-west.livejournal.com]

When I'm trying to have a serious conversation with you, you undermine me by talking down to me like I'm some irrational woman.

[impure-tale.livejournal.com]

No.

I'm talking to you like a whining coward of a manchild who wouldn't say a word on the subject otherwise!

Private

[major-west.livejournal.com]

What subject?! It was just sex!

Private

[impure-tale.livejournal.com]

Of course.

When you do not need it anymore, it is.

Private - Oh West. IRONY.

[major-west.livejournal.com]

So, you expect me to hop into bed with you regardless of my feelings?

You know very well why I don't, and it has nothing to do with Billy!

Private

[impure-tale.livejournal.com]

I know it wasn't Billy, then.

That does not mean it sits well with me, now.

Private

[major-west.livejournal.com]

What doesn't? My temporary celibacy? It's my decision and nobody else's.

Private

[impure-tale.livejournal.com]

Your celibacy is not what I am talking about.

And temporary? Has the little buffoon cured you, then?

Private

[major-west.livejournal.com]

Then what?

Temporary because I don't intend to live like a monk for the rest of my time here. I haven't done anything with him or anybody else.

And don't call him that! He isn't a buffoon.

Private

[impure-tale.livejournal.com]

I'm not the one that raped you, Henry.

But I did mourn you when you were killed. And I avenged attacks on your person when I could.

I should have thought that would have earned me enough respect to warrant some notice that I was no longer needed nor wanted.