week 7

[airlockedmods]

[For the first time in several weeks there is no new memorial in the garden. No new body in the morgue, no bloody mess for the roombas to clean. Choromatsu is still in need of time to heal and constant vigilance but he's alive. They're all alive for once on a Sunday and, even with the terrible realizations their returning memories may bring, there's a sense of hope for the first time in a long time.

There is no new floor this week.

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[ooc: Don't forget to to turn in your activity for week 6, submit your memory regains and put in your threads for the Benefactors!]

Comments

[daughterofthemark]

I had not even considered words--!

[NO THAT'S NOT WHAT HE MEANT]

[misanthropicprinciple]

No no no, I mean what do you want it to mean. To you, to people who look at it.

1/2

[daughterofthemark]

[Okay yeah she can handle that a bit better.]

I meant for it to indicate that I intend to truly become a Champion Sovereign. That I will always stand for justice, and act as a light to those who are trapped in darkness.

2/2

[daughterofthemark]

...but that seems too complex a message.

[misanthropicprinciple]

I don't think so. I mean, hey, remember those bookmarks Yuuri made for us this week? If a couple flowers can say all that, I'm sure we can come up with an image that'll convey exactly that for you.

[He spreads her papers out, looking from one sketch to the next.]

Let's see... the key ideas are Sovereign, justice, and light, right? A beacon for us all. Which of these pictures make you think of those three things?

[daughterofthemark]

[Of course she remembers the bookmarks they're awesome and she still has to thank Rii-san for it.]

That was my consideration with the royal crest of Caledonia. [Oh, so that's what that abstract stuff is.] But I do not believe it holds that meaning for any other than myself.

[misanthropicprinciple]

Well, it's your body. You're the one who's gonna see it more than anyone else, right? As long as it reminds you to be the person who bears that crest, I think that'll shine through to everyone else.

[He looks at all the flowers in the pictures, though, and adds:]

We could also ask Yuuri if there's a flower or two that would mean those things. Justice, benevolent rule... and hope. Right?

[daughterofthemark]

[She gets what he's saying, but she still has her doubts, since she knows anything she puts on her body will be seen as a message others are supposed to understand.

At least, she does until that one proper noun comes in.]

Oh! Of course! She will have a perfect suggestion.

[Why didn't she think of that? Really she could have just skipped the brainstorming and asked Yuuri for ideas in the first place.]

[misanthropicprinciple]

[Yeah, Yuuri's the best.]

Whatever she comes up with, maybe you could arrange it to kind of look like your royal crest. Two birds, one stone.

[daughterofthemark]

[And so pretty, too!]

Just the sort of solution I would have expected from a detective.

[Sir Canaan seems offended by that expression, though, cooing his disapproval.]

[misanthropicprinciple]

Hey, Canaan, it's an expression. Chill out.

[Calm your Big Pecks, Pidove.]

Man, you and Ardyn--is being good at drawing part of being royalty?

[daughterofthemark]

[...okay fine but he still doesn't like it.]

Thank you, Sir Junpei. Perhaps it is. It could result from the skills we must practice.

[misanthropicprinciple]

Art, science, leadership, combat... Question: Is there anything you can't do?

[daughterofthemark]

...medicine.

[Aaaand there goes the mood.]

[misanthropicprinciple]

...That bothers you?

[daughterofthemark]

The people who have been killed here... a competent medic could have saved some of them.

[misanthropicprinciple]

I'm assuming you don't mean like Nari.

[Well, not that Nari's actually a medical professional.]

[daughterofthemark]

[She shakes her head.]

Dame Nari has been wonderful, but there are things she cannot do. Perhaps with additional training she could, but...

[misanthropicprinciple]

I guess we don't have anyone with real medical training. But, Arianna, we... Choromatsu's also the only one we ever found in time. Even Rhys was... it was too late.

[daughterofthemark]

No, if... if an experienced Medic from my world had been here, or a War Magus like Dame Chloe, then many of them could still have been saved. Sir Rhys, certainly.

[misanthropicprinciple]

But--okay, Rhys aside, everyone else we found was already...

[daughterofthemark]

Not for long. Some of them might have had too much damage to their bodies, but... I have been in worse condition than Dame Mikaela was.

[misanthropicprinciple]

...

What?

[daughterofthemark]

I am certain Dame Chloe could have revived her as well.

[misanthropicprinciple]

You've died?