ooc; okay, so I figured the easiest way for me to do this was to set up the post and then set up two different threads: one for canon-alignment shifted Peony, one for AUDark!Peony, so...yes. :|b
Reason? [More like paranoia. Guy settles Saphir in his arms while the rappig tries to squirm away towards Peony.]
I'd say the situation isn't worse than it's been before. Probably better than it's been in years. If you weren't optimistic, we'd never even be in this situation to begin with. If you'll forgive my saying, Your Majesty, your council, Jade, even I, we're professional pessimists when we need to be. That's our job. Seeing everything that might go wrong and then preparing for it to like it's inevitable. But it's not pessimism that won us peace.
[It feels a little like talking to Luke, only Peony isn't a redheaded idiot.]
There's been peace before, and it always falls apart. Over and over and over. What if this peace is just a false sense of security? We can't be unprepared.
How long do you want it to last? I'd like peace forever, myself, but I don't think humans are that advanced. I think we can make it stick for a while, at least. I don't know how we can do more than that, but I'm up to brainstorming.
Short of asking Jade to fix things permanently? Take it a day at a time. And stay twenty steps ahead of the bastards that would ruin it for their own gain.
A lot of things. People are getting more worried about the state of things, and I hear those worries. It's made me start thinking that I might've been naive about things.
It's a weird situation. People worry more than normal, there Score isn't there to rely on. People don't know how to deal with that, it makes them more accountable, and responsibility is stressful.
Your decisions have always been what you thought were the correct actions, right?
I can't dispute that. But if you're thinking about it, doesn't that make you already different than they were? It's not inherently bad to stick to your ideals, as long as you can look at things from the other perspective as well.
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[laughs] Would you believe even an old man like me can still manage to see reason after all these years?
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I'd say the situation isn't worse than it's been before. Probably better than it's been in years. If you weren't optimistic, we'd never even be in this situation to begin with. If you'll forgive my saying, Your Majesty, your council, Jade, even I, we're professional pessimists when we need to be. That's our job. Seeing everything that might go wrong and then preparing for it to like it's inevitable. But it's not pessimism that won us peace.
[It feels a little like talking to Luke, only Peony isn't a redheaded idiot.]
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[his tone is joking]
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[But more seriously he glances at Peony.]
Is there anything that put this on your mind?
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Your decisions have always been what you thought were the correct actions, right?
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