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caughtinanetwork2012-03-02 07:59 pm
withoutasign) wrote in caughtinanetwork2012-03-02 07:59 pm
Sermon Two
[Signless has chosen his location carefully; when he turns on the video function, there's a wall of water behind him, and a school of brightly colored tropical fish swimming past. He's very clearly in the bubble again.]
My friends, today I want to talk to you about fear.
[His voice is low and soothing, his story-telling voice.]
I have known great fear in my time. In my world, the color of my blood was a source of fear, something that drove me into hiding for a long time. Then, when I dreamed of the world that could be, rather than the world that was, I was afraid again... afraid that I would never see what I knew we were capable of come to pass. I was afraid to speak out, afraid to make a ripple in the still, stagnant waters of our society, and tried instead to live my meager little life underneath the notice of the highbloods.
But then I saw what my silence was doing, what those in similar positions were suffering, and I knew I could not stay silent. I could not sit idly by while our world rotted away from its very core, while its corruption bled away the talents and very lives of so many trolls who had done nothing beyond being hatched the wrong color. I could not wait for another to come along and demand change, or I would wait the rest of my life. I needed to cast aside my fear, to find a reserve of strength within me, and rise to what my world needed me to be.
[His voice falls, becoming hushed and soft, almost painfully honest, and he looks down, his cloak hiding his eyes.]
I was terrified. Casting off fear is one of the most difficult things I have ever done. Fear is something I knew, its cold comfort as familiar to me as my guardian's face. It would have been... easy to live my entire life in fear, I thought.
[He looks up then, and his eyes are burning, his voice strong once more.]
I thought that fear was a cloak to hide me, but it was a chain I wore around my neck. When the fear was gone, when I made the decision to cast it aside, I have never felt so free in my entire life. It was how I imagine it must feel to wake up one morning with wings, and look out the window into an endless sky. When the fear was gone, I could breathe a deep breath for the first time in my life, and look to the future not as an ominous, foreboding thing, but as a path bathed in light and redemption.
I am not afraid any longer, Vatheon. This is my home now, and it is worth fighting for. I will not be driven out of my home again. I will not let fear control me.
My friends, today I want to talk to you about fear.
[His voice is low and soothing, his story-telling voice.]
I have known great fear in my time. In my world, the color of my blood was a source of fear, something that drove me into hiding for a long time. Then, when I dreamed of the world that could be, rather than the world that was, I was afraid again... afraid that I would never see what I knew we were capable of come to pass. I was afraid to speak out, afraid to make a ripple in the still, stagnant waters of our society, and tried instead to live my meager little life underneath the notice of the highbloods.
But then I saw what my silence was doing, what those in similar positions were suffering, and I knew I could not stay silent. I could not sit idly by while our world rotted away from its very core, while its corruption bled away the talents and very lives of so many trolls who had done nothing beyond being hatched the wrong color. I could not wait for another to come along and demand change, or I would wait the rest of my life. I needed to cast aside my fear, to find a reserve of strength within me, and rise to what my world needed me to be.
[His voice falls, becoming hushed and soft, almost painfully honest, and he looks down, his cloak hiding his eyes.]
I was terrified. Casting off fear is one of the most difficult things I have ever done. Fear is something I knew, its cold comfort as familiar to me as my guardian's face. It would have been... easy to live my entire life in fear, I thought.
[He looks up then, and his eyes are burning, his voice strong once more.]
I thought that fear was a cloak to hide me, but it was a chain I wore around my neck. When the fear was gone, when I made the decision to cast it aside, I have never felt so free in my entire life. It was how I imagine it must feel to wake up one morning with wings, and look out the window into an endless sky. When the fear was gone, I could breathe a deep breath for the first time in my life, and look to the future not as an ominous, foreboding thing, but as a path bathed in light and redemption.
I am not afraid any longer, Vatheon. This is my home now, and it is worth fighting for. I will not be driven out of my home again. I will not let fear control me.
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nice try MINDFANG but noww isnt the time for stupid FLARPin so knock it the fuck off
seriously vvris god groww the fuck up wwill ya
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Well, sweet fins, you'd 8est 8e careful how you talk to me or you might end up missing that seadweller's pride.
You're the second person to call me 8y the wrong name and it's already getting 8oring.
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[Also fff she called him sweet fins, why the fuck is that making him somewhat flustered over here, god! It's Vriska's shitty ancestor, get yourself together, Eridan!]
oh wwell wwhatevver you both are equally obnoxious its hardly surprisin one wwould think ya to be her
regardless you can keep your shitty threats to yourself because no ones gonna take my pride from me not evven you
though i fully wwelcome ya to keep entertainin that dream landhag since its the only hope you got to bein able seein a sea dwweller wwithout their pride
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You're already stretching my p8tience thin.
I suggest you 8e careful.
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though ill admit youre provvin to be less annoyin than her if not a touch more arrogant
but then again considerin im awware a some a your accomplishments through your descendant embarrassinly emulatin you i cant say i blame ya
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I take it you're Dualscar's, then.
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but yeah im his descendant
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D --> I really do suggest you cease dealing with her.
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D --> I've heard quite a few trolls say that in regards to her
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besides wwhy the fuck are you concernin yourself wwith wwhat i do
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D --> But very well
D --> There are a few reasons
D --> Mostly
D --> We need to watch out for on another in this place
D --> Both from our own problems, such as the Grand Highblood
D --> And from those the city throws at us
D --> Besides
D --> You are connected by quadrants to two children whose livelihood I am interested in
D --> So even if you think I am nothing more than a 'coward' who does lowblooded work
D --> I do have a duty to make sure nothing too horrendous happens to you
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i dont need some blue blooded muscle bound idiot lookin out for me evven if its merely from associational reasons nor do i care if youre obvviously nookhurt from my declarin the truth about you an your wwork
just stay outta my business an just fawwn ovver the twwo children youvve apparently got a inappropriate interest in
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D --> An adverb.
D --> A negative used to express dissent, denial, or refusal, as in response to a question or request.
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wwhat the fuck are you sayin no TO
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