eternallywithoutfear | 2nd Suitor ❦ Video/Action for Rocket Goldenrod Base, then Anonymous Text ❦

[Justine still is pretty disoriented by the video function, so she tends to stick to audio when making public posts, like right now.]

As predicted, my transition into this new time is rocky at best. Is there anyone in Goldenrod kind enough to escort me through the shops and explain the various novelties invented within the last century and a half or so? I would be most grateful for the gesture.

Ah, and if possible, does anyone know where I might find books that are not dedicated to the animals here? I would quite like to catch up on literature. [And also designs for modern technology, but she's not saying that.

For someone else from the 1800's, this is pretty clearly a flirt, and simply expected of a woman. She's showing off vulnerability that she's actually capable of handling herself in order to play into the role she is used to being in.

Although the act isn't quite perfect. She doesn't sound like she's completely in over her head, and she forgot to throw something in there implying that she's just not smart enough to deal with all the books on animals, but that's just because the people of her time fill in those blanks themselves.]

[Anonymous Public Text, a few hours after the previous message]

But whether on the scaffold high,
Or in the battle's van,
The fittest place where man can die
Is where he dies for man.

Or so said a man long ago in 1844. I can't help but think he's optimistic if he thinks people will even try to die in their 'fittest place'. Of course you hear stories of brave men taking a bullet for a comrade in battle, but they become stories because of how rare it is. I don't think I've met anyone who would sacrifice themselves for another.

Would you?

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I try not to die in general

but to answer the question: yeah, I would.

Even if that 'another' were a complete stranger to you?

Edited 2013-02-18 03:26 (UTC)

if I had to and could choose I'd rather die for someone I know

but that's not what you're asking about so

depends on the circumstances? I wanna say yes but whatever I say here while lying on my damn comfy bed in my hotel room and eating snacks and mulling over your questions for however long I feel like doing is kinda different than if I was there and had to make decision right now without room for debate or doubt and knowing there's no turning back

[... Okay fuck that was probably needlessly dramatic.]

uh what I'm trying to say is

I guess it's one of those things you don't know until you experience them?

but I still think yes

would suck for me if whoever I sacrificed myself for turned out to be an ass later on though

If you don't know what you would do, then assume the worst. People tend to be more accurate that way.

Yet even so, would you like to find out for sure?

in that example either me or the other person die

it sucks either way. hard to say which is "the worst"

you mean find out before or after the fact?

Before or after. Either or both.

These things have a way of coming up.

knowing before would be nice since it'd help make the decision

after wouldn't really change anything, but I'd like to find out anyway, yeah

assuming I'm not the dead one by then obviously

In that case, I will see what I can do.

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