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[It's such a nice day out that Okita has decided to take the House 50 pets for a walk. Around mid-morning after he finishes his training, Okita can be found wandering around the village with the yellow chocobo Tammy in tow. And on her back? A disgruntled Saizou, wishing he could be down from the heathen bird. Tammy doesn't seem to care since Okita keeps plying her with treats to ensure she follows.
As he walks, he'll open the journal and turn on the video, showing him and the bird in the background.]
It's such a nice day out~
I wonder if everyone's in school or if they're on break~?
Are all the New Feathers settled in? If anyone would like a tour around town today, I'll be out with Saizou and Tammy~ Dog, unfortunately, can't take walks. Poor thing. But! That's okay~ He's happy at home. Come say hello! I really want to meet all of you.
As he walks, he'll open the journal and turn on the video, showing him and the bird in the background.]
It's such a nice day out~
I wonder if everyone's in school or if they're on break~?
Are all the New Feathers settled in? If anyone would like a tour around town today, I'll be out with Saizou and Tammy~ Dog, unfortunately, can't take walks. Poor thing. But! That's okay~ He's happy at home. Come say hello! I really want to meet all of you.
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Just as there are reasons you do like it.
[He looks up at Tammy, keeping a smile on his face as he strokes her neck. But, talking about this isn't any fun so he'll spin back around and keep walking, looking back at Homura.]
Do you always keep to such heavy topics? I swear, it's like you don't know how to have fun at all.
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[Homura grins as he poses the question. Okita is evasive, but also clever. It will be interesting to see how he replies. And of course, unwilling to let the conversation simply end, Homura falls into step a few paces behind Okita.]
Perhaps. Just as you keep avoiding such heavy topics. We both seem to be creatures of routine.
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Aaaas for the reasons? Mm~ Well, you don't have to do anything you don't want to do. It's a bit freeing, isn't it?
[Falling into step, Okita seems rather content to go back to his walk even if he's still thinking about what Homura said earlier.]
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[So far as Homura's definition of the word goes, at least.]
Anything beyond what the Malnosso manipulate the populace into doing for the sake of their studies, or whatever reasons they have. The parallels between this place and my own world are both too many and too thick for me to consider this freedom--the bars are quite real, even if they can't be seen.
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And if you want to look at it that way, yes. But what is it to be truly free?
[He looks up at Tammy.]
She was free before this. Left out in the wild. And she chose to find a master and a home with us. Now she's penned in most of the time and must wait to get her meals.
[Tammy warks and nudges the side of Okita's head affectionately.]
But she prefers this, I think. For whatever reason, some people look for their gilded cages and choose to live in them rather than return.
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[Homura in turn watches Okita, and how Tammy responds to him. Of course Okita's point is valid, but not as a counter to Homura's position.]
You said it yourself--that people choose. Which of us has chosen this world, or to be subjected to the whims of the Malnosso? If a servant takes that role of his own volition, then so be it--I've never rejected my own followers, after all.
But a person has the right to decide his path for himself, and the responsibility to do what he must to walk upon that path, even without hope of success.
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[And it goes for both things. He might not have chosen this world, but he has adopted it as best he can. It wasn't his choice to come here, but it is his choice to stay as long as he still has friends here. Going home, he knows what waits for them all and until he finds a way to change it, he can't leave.]
The last experiment is still sitting poorly with you, I take it?
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They all do. It reminds me far too much of the world I was in, except worse for the greater effectiveness of the Malnosso.
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Which means... It's the Malnosso that are the problem. The loss of control... If there was a way to get Homura free of their grip... Okita pauses in his walk and leans down, picking up a good sized rock. He turns it over in his hands, then drops it into his sleeve.]
Between a rock and a hard place then, is it? Unless you try to overthrow the Malnosso.