Solf J Kimblee (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
explosivecombat) wrote2014-04-08 08:35 pm
explosivecombat) wrote2014-04-08 08:35 pm
Entry tags:
- !ic,
- *text,
- @bertholdt fubar: sweet summer child,
- @carmen sandiego (here she is),
- @greed's poor life choices,
- @walter,
- admittedly kind of asking for it,
- being you guys is suffering,
- but is everyone mad about genocide,
- engaging in heresy,
- god is dead and my tl;dr has killed him,
- hell are you even,
- how edgy of you,
- i used to be hardcore,
- just thought he'd ask,
- kimblee please stop helping,
- like a brick to the face,
- look at your life; look at your choices,
- my social skills are flawless,
- professor of fauxlosophy,
- slacking off like hell,
- surprisingly not plotting anyone's death,
- texting into the void,
- that may have been a bit insensitive,
- that wasn't morbid at all,
- this is gonna suck,
- this is really stupid,
- today we are tranquil for once,
- well that's needlessly sinister,
- why we can't have nice things,
- with apologies to carmen sandiego
032. [Text]
[...and it seems it's time for another round of Horribly Inappropriate Questions, with your host: This Asshole.]
You know, a while ago I posited to the network that this world is based around battle culture – admittedly a softer, watered-down version of it, but battle culture nonetheless. One's power is assumed based on the strength of their personal army; one's social status is determined by how many gym leaders they've managed to defeat, or how easily they can crush those who stand in the way of what they want. It's interesting to me that such a society should likewise be based around a message of love, peace and tolerance; one would think that for the sheer amount of destruction that everyone's carrying around within arm's distance, this place would have dissolved into anarchy long ago.
Equally interesting is the stance on war that most seem to have taken here; even the locals seem opposed to it, overall. I have to wonder why – what it is about this place in particular that makes the idea of war and conflict so abhorrent to all within it.
Ah, but it's entirely likely that it's a matter of points of view, isn't it? I'm from a militaristic society, personally, so war and conflict seem to be the natural state of things – are most nations generally pacifistic like this? Or is this abnormal even by your standards as one of the..."foreigners", I believe they like to call us?
I'm interested in answers, though I can take or leave identities; answer anonymously if you wish, but even if you don't, you know what they say about glass houses.
[...You know, there are some things that never change. Yes, Kimblee, everyone here probably does get mad about genocide; either way, happy birthday, you crazy son of a bitch. If this is how you're going to spend this evening, you are more than welcome to do so.]
You know, a while ago I posited to the network that this world is based around battle culture – admittedly a softer, watered-down version of it, but battle culture nonetheless. One's power is assumed based on the strength of their personal army; one's social status is determined by how many gym leaders they've managed to defeat, or how easily they can crush those who stand in the way of what they want. It's interesting to me that such a society should likewise be based around a message of love, peace and tolerance; one would think that for the sheer amount of destruction that everyone's carrying around within arm's distance, this place would have dissolved into anarchy long ago.
Equally interesting is the stance on war that most seem to have taken here; even the locals seem opposed to it, overall. I have to wonder why – what it is about this place in particular that makes the idea of war and conflict so abhorrent to all within it.
Ah, but it's entirely likely that it's a matter of points of view, isn't it? I'm from a militaristic society, personally, so war and conflict seem to be the natural state of things – are most nations generally pacifistic like this? Or is this abnormal even by your standards as one of the..."foreigners", I believe they like to call us?
I'm interested in answers, though I can take or leave identities; answer anonymously if you wish, but even if you don't, you know what they say about glass houses.
[...You know, there are some things that never change. Yes, Kimblee, everyone here probably does get mad about genocide; either way, happy birthday, you crazy son of a bitch. If this is how you're going to spend this evening, you are more than welcome to do so.]
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So that "Solf" the girl said wasn't me mishearing.
I'll kill the bastard if I ever see him again, but you're not him.
[Goddamn it universe. There was a perfectly reasonable, intelligent Kimbley out there and he had to get the one who's as dumb as a box of hammers. It fucking figures.]
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[so can we talk shit about him now, or]
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Some deity out there is playing some fantastic prank on you because the one I know is a stupid bastard who can barely spell his own name, let alone wax philosophy.
[Someone's bitter.]
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Speaking of, your dislike sounds rather personal.
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[Mostly because the wheels are turning in his head and he's not sure if he likes where he thinks this is headed.]
I'll be honest, I think the only reason he's still alive is that he was in prison for a decade. He has the survival instincts of a dead fish and is likely to hurt himself if he isn't under constant supervision.
How he came to be in the military in the first place I don't know. Seems like an obvious bad move to me.
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I was released after seven, personally.
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There was a laboratory connected to Second. You know, the doesn't officially exist kind. The other homunculi had a half-finished Stone in the basement and needed more material.
So they used the prisoners. Who even knows why Pride kept him alive in the first place, but that doesn't really matter. He blasted his way out of the holding cell because it was entirely made of red water.
By the time I arrived on scene it was about to be him versus a lot of well armed soldiers. I don't care how good his alchemy is because odds like that are suicide.
So we took care of the soldiers and he left with me.
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In the version of Amestris I know, the Fuhrer is Wrath, not Pride; Pride is someone else entirely, one of those I mentioned working closely with before. Envy is the other, though ultimately most of my orders came from Wrath. He kept me off of death row because I was useful; I wasn't aware of this...business with the prisoners being used to create Stones until I came here, but it answered a fair amount of questions - I was often asked by the guards what I did to keep myself off from being executed, and I never really had an answer, though I had a rather good time answering them anyway with whatever I could think of, just to see how much they were willing to believe.
I was granted a pardon eventually - not an exoneration, unfortunately, so rejoining the military properly was out of the question, but in a way that worked out in my favor given the lack of red tape that would have to be cut through before I could do anything as a proper soldier. I've been serving the Homunculi since then.
[...well, as long as you don't count the last, like...two minutes his soul was still conscious - but what's 120 seconds between acquaintances, anyway.]
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I'd be more offended but the pointy bastard he ran off with will only get bit harder the moment he tries to control him. I know how the military works; I wouldn't be surprised if he's Kimbley's next victim.
Now that's, interesting, see. Our worlds are close but not quite the same. Wrath is a child in mine. A very special child, mind, but he's still a kid.
Are you aware of the leader, then? Because it certainly sounds like a completely different person than the one I know. As I said, the one would never work with humans.
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...fortunately, a question has been posed.]
I'm rather aware of the leader, yes. I knew him personally, though I didn't speak to him often; he was an interesting one, really, I learned a fair amount from him.
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"He" you say.
And that's evidence there on how different our versions of Amestris are. I'm going to hazard a guess that Envy never told you much about our version.
I could tell you, if you'd like. But first I have one question. Does your version of the country have that story about the country that fell in a single night where Central now stands?
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We have the story, and I'm aware of what caused the country's demise in my world, but from the sound of it the reasons are likely entirely different.
Envy hasn't told me much, but then, I haven't exactly asked; he's seemed curious about the version I came from, and I've been willing to provide him with information because it really matters very little here.
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It happened 400 years ago, I believe. A century or so before I was born, though it could possibly have been longer, there was a great civilization. I couldn't tell you the name and honestly it hardly matters.
What matters is that two people were experimenting in secret there-- a man and a woman. Whatever they were after was important enough to start sacrificing the lives of hundreds of people and then later thousands but it still wasn't enough. What they were after would take outright genocide to be successful.
It was the first time the two of them created the Philosopher's Stone, but it wouldn't be the last. The city was shoved underground and left to become a mere afterthought. A legend, even, because how can an entire country vanish in a single night? Such a thing should be impossible.
The man went on to become infamous in his own right, if only because of the eventual feud with the woman.
And the woman? Well. She fancied herself rather important and went on to create a host of servants for herself.
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You know, this is the first time in a very, very long time that I've been reduced to saying that there really aren't any words.
Well, outside of maybe asserting that I have yet to hear about even one good decision that's come out of whatever version of Amestris you came from.
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That's because there probably hasn't ever been, really. We're talking about a place where a city-state outright vanishing isn't met with horrified panicking but instead falls into "legend" in a matter of centuries.
Of course, there's a significant plothole in my story. Human lifespans do not last for hundreds of years.
I told you before she keeps young women around her and she certainly doesn't do that for their alchemy.
I'm going to hope for the sake of this story that certain things still apply. A soul has a tendency to reject a form that is unlike its body. Of course, in the version of Amestris I know, things like this are rather easy to bypass if you know how.
[Let's see if you follow that train of thought because yeah.]
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Just. Oh, wow.
Either you are fucking with him in the most gloriously idiotic manner possible or your world really is exactly this much of a shitshow, and given that your world produced Archer and all of his questionable decision-making skills...
...
okay look just give him a moment to stop laughing because this is one of those things that he suspects really should not be funny because you are talking about body-stealing
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BUT YOU ARE TALKING ABOUT BODY-STEALING, though, like that is a thing that happens
this woman just takes teenaged girls and
steals
their bodies
after she just up and buried a country somehow
and no one gave a shit that this woman just kind of buried a country
how the fuck do you even bury a country
and then just build a city over it like THIS MAKES TOTAL SENSE NEVER MIND THE INTEGRITY OF THE GROUND IT'LL BE FINE
and now that this city is built there's just some woman happily shoving her soul into teenagers' bodies
you know
as you do
seriously his suspension of disbelief has just gone flying right the fuck out the window and he isn't sure if he wants to call you out on such obvious bullshit but right now he is like the fucking x-files with the degree to which he wants to believe]
This is simultaneously the greatest and the stupidest thing I've ever heard, you know. Well done.
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And even if I did I'd try and weave a story that didn't paint an entire country like absolute lunatics.
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I'll tell you more information, if you'd like, but first I have one question for you.
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Go on.
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[Good job telling a homunculus that information, Winry. A+
And added very quickly, just so there isn't a misunderstanding:]
You have my word that I won't raise a finger against him.
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That would only prove to make things very ugly and cause unnecessary tension.
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But since I'm not going to lay a hand on him and you answered my question, you're free to ask me more of my world. If I know the answer, I'll be happy to explain.
There's only one subject that's off limits but we'll cross that when we get to it.