Sounds fun. What kind of job is that? Or are you not at liberty to say?
[Bringing up war does give him pause. His region, despite its current peacefulness, had many wars in its history. There were still soldiers stationed in Kanto even now... he wasn't old enough to have experienced any of it, but war colours the older generation's perception and their approach to things.
That was passed onto him, in subtler ways, to believe nonviolence was naive foolishness, that cruelty and violence were both inevitable and necessary in conflict. A warlike mentality, shockingly ill-suited for peacetime.]
So I'm beginning to understand... it'd be a very powerful thing to wield, words that change reality by changing perceptions. I think that must be a kind of strength. [Something very vital to him.]
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[Bringing up war does give him pause. His region, despite its current peacefulness, had many wars in its history. There were still soldiers stationed in Kanto even now... he wasn't old enough to have experienced any of it, but war colours the older generation's perception and their approach to things.
That was passed onto him, in subtler ways, to believe nonviolence was naive foolishness, that cruelty and violence were both inevitable and necessary in conflict. A warlike mentality, shockingly ill-suited for peacetime.]
So I'm beginning to understand... it'd be a very powerful thing to wield, words that change reality by changing perceptions. I think that must be a kind of strength. [Something very vital to him.]