seventh wildling ➳ ( video ) ➳ backdated to the 21st

[freewoman]

[So here's the charming face of Ygritte. Except she doesn't look too pleased.]

So are you lot that thick to go off then? T'do their bidding and fight their wars? What's dead is dead, only we can't die. They've got us, and if you save a man, he'll just expect you t'save him again.

I feel for that world and them lands, I really do. [More than most, probably.]

But what are we t'them? Do they care what happens t'us? This United group, aye, they may be the ones t'exile'em and t'keep them down. But what are we but-- collateral damage? [See, look. This place is wearing off on her. She's actually learning.]

What cause have I? What cause do any of you have?

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[Video, if this was supposed to be mid-mission, pretend this reply is made afterward?]

[knightofcourage]

If they win in this world, the next thing the United Earth will do is go after ours. What happened to the other world...it'll happen again and again, if they get their way.

[Emil's got his own doubts about the way things are done in Exsilium, but there's one thing he's certain of.]

What I saw in that other world made me realize something. No place deserves to have that happen to it, no matter what the people in it do.

[Video] after works

[freewoman]

What y'deserve and what y'get are two different things. [Of course fighting to stop something like that happening is a valid reason. She can respect it.]

[Video]

[knightofcourage]

Yeah. They are. But...if we don't even try to change anything, nothing will change. That's what I've learned, anyway.

[immortal_smoke]

In a nutshell, it's because I don't have anything better to do.

[freewoman]

That's not a reason.

[immortal_smoke]

Boredom is a reason.

video; after the mission

[bloodyantivan]

[This one is an elf, dressed in soft grays, some comfortable clothing he has bought in this 'fine' city. It seems he's been playing messages on his tablet while he goes through his weapons: he is polishing a small throwing dagger.] Oh, I do not know. I find a little violence takes the edge off of all of the dull shopping and moving into new houses and rain of this place.

video;

[freewoman]

Violence is a commendable reason enough, aye. But for what sake though? Y'can go out and kill them poisonous beasts up north.

Re: video;

[bloodyantivan]

Beasts are fine enough for honing skill, but bore me too. I am best at hunting people, and there is a certain poetry in killing humans demonstrating such... particularly imperial behavior. [His eyes narrow there for a moment. That is an old history, a resentment, but then he chuckles. It's almost as if he could be talking about the weather:]

Even my kind, the finest assassins in Antiva, do not kill cruelly and indiscriminately. They deserved to die, and I was more than happy to kill them.

[ video ]

[hostage]

[This reply comes in the afternoon, maybe an hour or so after the explosion at the Hold. Jesse's still in the hospital for observation but at least he has his tablet back.]

It's clear now, ain't it? They're coming for us whether we like it or not.

[ video ]

[freewoman]

[She sits back.] So they've finally given us a reason, I suppose.

[hostage]

The Initiative warned us before. Just nobody believed 'em.

[video]

[weapabilities]

I suppose I do what I can because maybe it'll help everyone else get back where they belong.

[video]

[freewoman]

That's up to the Initiative, and they're not letting their army go.

[video]

[weapabilities]

Well...

I guess then. I guess there's also the fact that I don't really know how to be anything but a soldier. I wouldn't know what to do with myself if I wasn't.

[ That's probably more truthful than the first answer. ]

video

[fintastic]

But it isn't just their war now, it is ours too! Plus, this is home now! At least it is for some of us.

video

[freewoman]

It's not everyone's home.

video

[fintastic]

Maybe not! But you asked what cause some of us have, and that's it.

[breakin_ur_lore]

What cause? We can't just stand here and let them do those things.

[freewoman]

If y'want to be used.

[breakin_ur_lore]

I'll gladly be used, if it saves a whole planet from extinction! You just said that you felt for that world!

[audio]

[taijiya]

[Sango comes across this post after the battle.]

Does it matter if they care what happens to us? We're here, and the only thing we accomplish by sulking over it is allowing entire worlds to be destroyed without a fight.

If it was your world, and your home, wouldn't you want someone to help you protect it?

[audio]

[freewoman]

It has little to with sulkin'. I won't be their weapon.

[Except she's itching to fight.]

Difference is I don't have a home anymore.

[audio | post-war]

[heirwithouthope]

[Presuming that he left her after their conversation in front of the portals. Presuming he wasn't sure if she stayed behind or changed her mind and followed.]

Did you fight?

[audio | post-war]

[freewoman]

[Longest sigh, because why do you have to ask? Ugh.]

Of course I did.