To Bowl like a Man

[hontobakabaka]

Who:  Ruri and Mordred
Where:  The bowling alley

[So she woke up in some bowl o ramma place, Ruri was used to weird things here.  The kind of fancy dress was a bit silly, but the place seemed empty despite being set up.  At least there was food to be found but the silence]

"Hello?  Is anyone here?"

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[sonthatdisappoints]

I hated humans for a long time because it seemed that they could never rise above their baser instincts.

[Pause, and it's a blow to his pride to admit this]

Well... that isn't completely true. I hated them for how I thought they would treat me. It's easier to be kind to those who are kind to me first. I dislike those who are not.

[hontobakabaka.livejournal.com]

Its only human to want to be with people who treat you well. Honestly though, I've known jerks that weren't nice and it was just easier to ignore them, dislike takes a certain emotional connection.

[sonthatdisappoints]

I wish I had Mother's ability to control her emotions... I can't help not feeling something with any person. I try to avoid those I dislike, but I cannot seem to ignore them.

[hontobakabaka.livejournal.com]

No. You don't want that. Most people who can do that do it more because they are afraid of what will happen if they let their emotions out. I know that I am.

[sonthatdisappoints]

Mother is the same... but I just... wanted her to love me. It's not fair that she had to become cold just because the people would not accept her unless they believed she was a man.

[hontobakabaka.livejournal.com]

[She puts her hand on his arm]

I'm sorry Mordred. I really am.

[sonthatdisappoints]

[He shakes his head and smiles]

It's still a little humiliating to think about it, but it's all right now. She has accepted me, that is all I had ever wanted, even more than the throne.

[hontobakabaka.livejournal.com]

Then just be happy for that.

[She nods a little]

[sonthatdisappoints]

I need little else than Mother and friends. Even with these confounded sorceries, I have all I want in this village.

[Oh wait, he did want to find out more about her, didn't he?]

But what about you, Ruri? What was your life like before you were summoned here?

[hontobakabaka.livejournal.com]

Oh. I was captain of a battleship, the Nadesico. We were hunting the last of the Jovian Masculine Assault Squad... Stupidest name ever for an insurrectionist movement. It was really either that, or go back to Peaceland and take up my duties there because Minato couldn't afford to raise every orphan of the Jovian wars from the ship.

[sonthatdisappoints]

[He does remember her talking about a ship before, but he didn't know she was the captain]

Command of a battleship... that is most impressive for someone of your age. Our own navy is small, and the captains are nearly always old men.

[hontobakabaka.livejournal.com]

Yes... I'm the youngest captain in the fleet. The fact that I was genetically engineered for the role helped a considerable amount though.

/crawls back from RL land

[sonthatdisappoints]

Not unlike why my creator made me... to take the place of the king. But I failed, and so even being made for a task is no guarantee of success.

[His failure still stings, but these days it's only just the failing itself rather than the burn of rejection. So there's progress]

How's the comic going?

[hontobakabaka.livejournal.com]

I didn't so much have a purpose in creation other than to be better than every one else. It was kind of silly and stupid. I think that's why the process was made illegal. That and the failure rate.

It's going x_x

[sonthatdisappoints]

That is what my creator said about my birth, but... she always pushed me to take the throne from the king. And so I think that is why she created me, though she said that I was better than humans.

There are other homunculi like me, but... their purpose is different, though few magi of the latter eras coin us. Certainly not like me.

[hontobakabaka.livejournal.com]

Well, the failure rate for the engineering project I was from was 95% so... It just was bad science.

I really don't know though.

[sonthatdisappoints]

Homunculi are imperfect, as well... apparently only one family is still capable of creating them well. I believe they use this 'science' to simulate True Magic.

[hontobakabaka.livejournal.com]

We're the products of humans, and humanity as a whole is imperfect I guess. Its not something I spend a lot of time thinking about though.

[sonthatdisappoints]

I've spent a good amount of time on it, but only because my creator refused to allow me to interact with them when I was younger. I was only told that to them, I am a monster.

[hontobakabaka.livejournal.com]

That was unfair of her, you're a very nice person Mordred.

[She nods]

[sonthatdisappoints]

Perhaps... some thought that way. I do not know for certain. Mother was unable to rule unless she pretended to be a man, and so I am inclined to believe that my creator spoke at least some measure of truth.

However, that has had no bearing here. No one has shunned me simply because of what I am.

[hontobakabaka.livejournal.com]

Well, a people, as a whole are only as intelligent as the stupidest one in the group. That is the danger of mob mentality, and there is almost always going to be one simple minded and intolerant idiot.

That being said a person is able to be so much more than that.

[sonthatdisappoints]

That is certainly true. I witnessed it frequently in each village.

[He looks a little surprised]

I had never thought of it that way.

[hontobakabaka.livejournal.com]

There are many historical accounts of it. Its just one of the dark sides of human nature.

[sonthatdisappoints]

I will admit I had never taken the time to study humans... I was told to simply keep my distance because they would revile me as a monster, so I thought they were monsters in turn. I never stopped wishing that I was one of them, though.