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foolishmortals2017-06-18 12:24 pm
grimgrinningghosts) wrote in foolishmortals2017-06-18 12:24 pm
WEEK 2
[One week. One week spent in the Haunted Mansion, and nothing seems to have changed. The hinges still creak in doorless chambers, strange and frightening sounds still echo through and you still occasionally catch a flicker of candlelight out of the corner of your eye. You might be slowly becoming familiar with the mundanity of this communal life, and we've recognized that possibility.
Something has to give.]
[SUNDAY MONDAY TUESDAY WEDNESDAY THURSDAY]
{ooc: Don't forget to turn in your week 1/intro AC! As per murdergame tradition, this begins our new weekly schedule - Tuesday and onwards are locked for the motive. Everybody's just working for the weekend.
Additionally, a few people this week are going to get tagged by...something. If you'd like to opt out of this, please let us know.}
Something has to give.]
{ooc: Don't forget to turn in your week 1/intro AC! As per murdergame tradition, this begins our new weekly schedule - Tuesday and onwards are locked for the motive. Everybody's just working for the weekend.
Additionally, a few people this week are going to get tagged by...something. If you'd like to opt out of this, please let us know.}
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Sure. I was just a soldier, but I hope I can answer.
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What...er...what does your country think about women serving in the military?
[Totally asking for a friend. yep.]
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[He takes a minute to assess "his" body language, to tell how much he should say, whether he'll set France up for mockery for being less progressive than wherever she's from.]
I never met a woman while I was serving, but France doesn't conscript people, either. Most women probably choose to stay home, you know, to uh, raise babies and take care of the town.
But hundreds of years ago, the stories say that all of France was saved by a woman who led the army.
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That sounds way more lenient than where I'm from. Women are banned from the military, even in times of war like this. And if a woman were to pretend to be a man to go fight, she would be executed if she were found out.
[She's getting dangerously close to the truth, but she wants Lefou to understand why she was asking.
Well. Without understanding why it's so important to her specifically. Speaking of which, she better assert that she is Totally A Man.]
I, uh. I was only wondering, because it seems silly, you know? If we're already fighting for our lives, then maybe banning women from serving doesn't help.
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[Holy shit. He's pretty sure women aren't allowed in the military back home, but at worst they'd just get. Sent home, and their marriage prospects would, you know, be nonexistent.]
Yeah, that's... Excessive. You know, make allowances for like mothers with young children but I'm sure there's plenty of women who can fight just as hard as men can. Not just a big hero every few centuries.
[He thinks, specifically, of Belle, of the fire in her eyes and the rage flushing her cheeks, beautiful and righteous like a summer thunderstorm as she rode right through the castle doors in nothing but her chemise. She wasn't defending her country, but she was defending her friend. Her home.
And, you know, the prince, as it turned out.]
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It's...been on my mind a bit, that's why I was wondering. I think you are the only other military person here besides me, so it seemed like the best idea to ask you.
I...I know a lot of women who could beat me in a fight. And if they would take me, then they should take them too, I think.
[Nevermind that Mulan is lying through her teeth about her gender. DETAILS]
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So do I. Not that it's much of an achievement, beating me.
At the very least, they shouldn't kill them for trying. They just want to defend their homes.
...Actually, it feels good to talk about it with someone. Back in the village I'm from, there's not really much room for women with, uh, "manly" interests.
[Or for men with womanly ones.]
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I understand completely. I don't exactly fit in back home either.
[From an entirely different angle than Lefou, but she doesn't even think to specify that.]
Right after I turned 16, I went to the matchmaker, just like every wo- everyone where I come from does. I made such a horrible mess of things that she threw me out in the middle of it. The first time in ages something like that has happened, even.
[It's not exactly a happy memory, that much is pretty clear, but it's easier to talk about with someone who understands.]
It's probably for the best anyway. I...probably wouldn't have been happy with whoever the matchmaker picked for me to marry.
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I don't even want to know what a matchmaker would do with me. I've been a, uh, confirmed bachelor since I was of marrying age.
[It feels good to confess that without risk of being locked in an asylum. Dare he hope that maybe he's found someone else like him?]
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It's quite that far for me, I don't think. I mean, I'm still young and figuring things out, but I think I would like to get married someday. It will just take a very special person I suppose.
[She's never actually admitted that to anyone before, though. As terrible as things went with the matchmaker, she does still like the idea of getting married. A good, healthy marriage, like what her father and mother have.]
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Her words make him think about Belle, about how she rejected Gaston again and again, because she could see what he was, maybe. But he thinks about the ball that followed her wedding, about orbiting the newlyweds on the dance floor and stealing glances at how utterly adoringly they looked at each other.]
Yeah, don't- don't settle. Take your time, if you're going to find someone I think fate has a way of dropping the right person into your path.
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[Honestly she is not really thinking of marriage anytime soon, it's more of a 'someday that would be nice' thing. She's fine with waiting.
Plus, pretending to be a guy kind of makes it hard to find someone to be her husband.]
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That was one good thing about always being in the shadow of the strongest, toughest, most handsome guy in town. The girls were too busy chasing him.
I probably could have picked up his castoffs, but I like to think that I still have some dignity.
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Though good luck getting that explanation from her.]
I would like to think that you are kinder than that too. Both for your own sake and for theirs.
I do get what you mean by being in someone's shadow, though. My commanding officer is a lot like that: strong, tough, handsome. Everyone else in our unit is...well, not all of that at once, to put it kindly.
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[Kinder is a strong word. Uninterested is more likely.]
...Captain Gaston was my commanding officer. [The same one he served as ordonnance in the army, the same one he joined the army for.] Since we were boys, he was always the center of attention. I always... counted myself lucky that he saw something worth protecting in someone like me.
[Small. Soft. Weak.]
I was never jealous of the attention that he received, but it was hard to not feel like I wasn't doing enough when he started paying attention to others.
[Lefou that's g- ...never mind]
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Maybe he sees someone with a lot of inner-strength who just needs the right situation to prove how good of a person he is. Or maybe he sees someone who has a lot of potential for greatness. Heros are rarely born that way, most are made with years of discipline and training.
[Don't worry she gets that feeling too, impressing Shang is important to her as well. Though it's slightly less gay in her situation whoops]
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Instead he manages a half-nervous, half-sad chuckle.]
I guess I'm still waiting for the right situation, then, heh.
It sounds like that's what your commanding officer sees in you, though. I'd believe it.