Do you think there's someone like that here among us?
[Clara isn't so sure. There was a time when she would've leapt at the chance to do it. But she questions her choices so often now that it feels like she isn't trusted by others. and she isn't certain she's capable of the sort of humility it takes to address the growing rift.]
I suppose it wouldn't hurt to just let things happen as they naturally might. The rift would grow. But at least then we'd know for sure where everyone truly stands.
[because he's right. very few people there are able to look past themselves and set aside their own feelings. most of them act on pride and a need to fulfill something within themselves. she isn't sure if there's someone capable of acting as a unifier. which is a depressing thought, really.]
Finn, Jim Kirk. Yourself — although I understand that there may be individuals here less likely to listen to a woman.
๏ผ kunoichi are not inherently lesser, but he can think of only a handful throughout history that have really left their mark. women like tsunade senju and konan are rare, as most turn to childminding. the detriment of a population that is constantly being reduced by war, and requires replenishment. ๏ผ
If people are disruptive enough, however, especially at cost to the majority of our cohort, I believe they will be returned to their respective worlds.
[The fact he thinks highly enough of her to put herself in that list makes her take pause. And the fact that he recognizes the misogyny that can come along with being a woman in that position makes her smile.]
I'm hoping I won't have to pull out my teacher voice to give a big lecture. But if it comes down to it, I'll do whatever needs to be done.
๏ผ she has a good heart. a willingness to help others, to serve. she would have been a fearsome shinobi, if given power enough to stand in defense of her ideals. she does it anyway — even limited as she is by human frailty. she is quick and brave and clever, and he has not once doubted that she would die for a stranger.
his opinion on civilians has always been that they are a thing to be protected, and apart from. yet, clara is a rarified sort — he does not expect to have missed out on others like her, with his avoidance — but he does wonder what else he has been blind to.
he looked at his life like a road that lead him to its inevitable end. he was satisfied with how death came to him — an act engineered to the smallest detail, and asked of sasuke. it is only now, five months out, that he has turned his mind to other possible paths. things he once saw as inevitable, or necessary, or correct... he has begun to question. anything but absolute obedience is dangerous, in a shinobi. yet he has been dangerous for other reasons for a long, long time. ๏ผ
Of this I have no doubt. ๏ผ he pauses faintly. then: ๏ผ I have business to attend elsewhere, Clara-san — we will speak later.
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[Clara isn't so sure. There was a time when she would've leapt at the chance to do it. But she questions her choices so often now that it feels like she isn't trusted by others. and she isn't certain she's capable of the sort of humility it takes to address the growing rift.]
I suppose it wouldn't hurt to just let things happen as they naturally might. The rift would grow. But at least then we'd know for sure where everyone truly stands.
[because he's right. very few people there are able to look past themselves and set aside their own feelings. most of them act on pride and a need to fulfill something within themselves. she isn't sure if there's someone capable of acting as a unifier. which is a depressing thought, really.]
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๏ผ kunoichi are not inherently lesser, but he can think of only a handful throughout history that have really left their mark. women like tsunade senju and konan are rare, as most turn to childminding. the detriment of a population that is constantly being reduced by war, and requires replenishment. ๏ผ
If people are disruptive enough, however, especially at cost to the majority of our cohort, I believe they will be returned to their respective worlds.
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I'm hoping I won't have to pull out my teacher voice to give a big lecture. But if it comes down to it, I'll do whatever needs to be done.
exactly 209 words of introspection u are welcome
his opinion on civilians has always been that they are a thing to be protected, and apart from. yet, clara is a rarified sort — he does not expect to have missed out on others like her, with his avoidance — but he does wonder what else he has been blind to.
he looked at his life like a road that lead him to its inevitable end. he was satisfied with how death came to him — an act engineered to the smallest detail, and asked of sasuke. it is only now, five months out, that he has turned his mind to other possible paths. things he once saw as inevitable, or necessary, or correct... he has begun to question. anything but absolute obedience is dangerous, in a shinobi. yet he has been dangerous for other reasons for a long, long time. ๏ผ
Of this I have no doubt. ๏ผ he pauses faintly. then: ๏ผ I have business to attend elsewhere, Clara-san — we will speak later.