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riverview2017-10-01 10:16 pm
realimperfect) wrote in riverview2017-10-01 10:16 pm
oo1. ( video - - early hours of october 2nd )
[ The video feed opens to a mostly dark room, a diffused light somewhere in the room providing enough light with which to see Re-L. It’s nearly 3 AM at the time of recording, and yet there she is, lounged on some piece of furniture in her apartment, a small throw rug over her feet, the soft patter of rain in the background.
She leans forward to settle the communicator on a table, pushing a stray piece of bang too short to make her ponytail behind her ear as she straightens again. Many things, of late, have had her thinking. Perhaps a little too much, but it wouldn’t be a day in Re-L’s world without a little over thinking and, perhaps, idle musing. Piling thoughts related to how, maybe, things could have been different in her home world had things aligned different, how exactly she may have landed herself here.. etcetera.
An abandoned book sits beside her, which seems to indicate she’s been up too late reading, thinking a little too much in the rain as a precipitant to this : ]
Does anyone else here ever wonder about how, maybe, things could have turned out differently if only you’d… done things differently? Behaved differently or been.. made a different person?
Perhaps listened to directives instead of blatantly disobeying and following your instincts.. asking fewer questions.. ?
[ Blue eyes narrow slightly as lightning streaks above her, a roll of thunder loud enough to hear over the communicator seeming to distract her for a moment. ]
That’s the problem with questions and finding their answers - - A lie is the truth until you recognize it as a lie, and by then, you can’t take back the question.
That’s the problem with my questions, really, I still haven’t quite figured out how to start taking them back -
[ Re-L stops before completing that thought, a small ‘mrrp!’ sounding as a little kitten with black and brown spots climbs his way up the couch to her, which.. seems to shock her for all of a second before she’s reaching to gently detach him from the sofa material with a tut, the other hand reaching to shut the device off since who knows how long this will take - ]
Atlas, can you not climb every damn thing in this apartment?
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[That word choice seems important, somehow. He'd like to clarify first before he starts offering any thoughts on the matter.]
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Yes... [ She pauses and trails off, scratching her kitten as if knowing this is going to be one of those discussions, if only because she's had them previous and they always turn in to something much more than she thought they needed to be. It's a fact of life for a fellow citizen, but she supposes outside of that environment it is a little strange - ]
Fellow citizens of Romdeau Dome are made to fit certain roles that are missing or have been left open by the death of a citizen. So personalities necessary for those roles are made to fill them, each person given a reason for being from the beginning...
[ A pale hand makes a spinning motion in the air, casual even while explaining such complicated and.. disturbing genetic game playing. ] Cog to the wheel, all of those things.
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Personalities are...created?
[It's obvious that this entire concept has gone over his head. He's from the middle of the 1800s okay, shhhh. He shakes his head, nonetheless.]
It's only natural to ask questions. That's part of what makes us humans what we are. Sometimes the answers are unpleasant, but that doesn't mean the questions weren't worth asking.
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Yes. I don't know the exact process, but fellow citizens of Romdeau Dome were made with specific temperaments in mind to assure that the Dome would and could continue to work in the best and .. least interrupted way possible. Since the population was so controlled and with the state of the world outside it was necessary. [ At least at first. By the time Re-L was born in to the Dome there's a good chance that the kind of eugenics they were using wasn't really necessary anymore, but there was no sign of stopping or even allowing the people inside the Dome to think of the outside. It's all a little much to share with him, in their first conversation, and anyway.. she doesn't want to lose him any further than she already has. ]
Yes.. I learned that the hard way not too long ago.. [ Her questions had led to... a lot. More than Re-L had ever expected. ] .. I still wonder, though, if maybe I could have asked more.. maybe more subtly and learned more before I had to go my own way.