[ help me i totally missed the neighbourhood locations update because i was just looking at the new ones on mobile while i watched my het toilet get installed so LET ME START OVER ]
[ teehee. yeah. but mostly also just that there's something very rewarding for him to plant his own food. he'll keep fiddling with various gardening things as he talks. ]
Based on what I've heard from Basilio, this seems a little out of the normal scope for your cities. [ a shame, really. ] I had a smaller version of this place at home, in my yard.
[ oh. huh. somehow he has not heard about any of this. ]
Ah, I see. [ mulls that over... ] I do know a little about the function of your world, at least. In that I know how you are treated.
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I assume this Count Louis sold you on a plan to fix that. [ he thinks both brothers wouldn't put their support behind a king unless that king aimed to make the world better for everybody, not just him. ]
[ that's fair, he guesses; louis is a sore point for both of them, but it's different for basilio as the one who's had to live with the aftermath.
he nods. ]
A world of equality where your birth don't matter, and people of all tribes have a chance to succeed based on their own merits. And it weren't just talk neither; he treated the paripus within his ranks with respect, even made the likes of us into his right hand men.
Ruthless against anyone who went against him, but time was, I saw that as a sellin' point rather than a downside. Didn't have to worry about him bending to anyone else's influence like the spineless king we had before.
I can see where you're coming from. A decisive man can be someone worth following. But - in my experience, a man who never allows anybody to disagree with him, who never sees other points of view? That's dangerous.
[ his tail swishes back and forth as he thinks about this. ]
It sounds like perhaps you and Basilio both experienced the downside firsthand.
Was bound to happen eventually. Turns out the man's just a bloody lunatic.
[ it's still conflicted, because louis did a lot of genuinely good things for them personally, and they really would have died a long time ago if he hadn't so drastically changed the trajectory of their lives. fidelio absolutely wants the bastard dead now, no question about that, but. it's complicated. ]
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he's busy planting something... ]
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You plannin' to grow somethin'?
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I am, yes. [ little ear flick, as he glances over at fidelio. ]
I'd like to have fresh vegetables. And a wider variety of peppers. Hello, Fidelio.
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[ that starts out as a joke but by the time he finishes saying it he's like no actually that probably is the reason, isn't it. ]
...Never really seen things growin' like this before. Not on such a big scale, anyway.
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[ teehee. yeah. but mostly also just that there's something very rewarding for him to plant his own food. he'll keep fiddling with various gardening things as he talks. ]
Based on what I've heard from Basilio, this seems a little out of the normal scope for your cities. [ a shame, really. ] I had a smaller version of this place at home, in my yard.
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[ imagine having a yard... even martira doesn't have yards ]
What sort of place was that? You in a village or somethin', or way out in the middle of nowhere?
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[ he likes dropping this on people ]
Or I did, anyway. The area I lived in specifically was modeled to look like a village, at least.
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So... Out there, off the planet? [ gestures at the sky ] Like the train?
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Did you have a permanent place to stay?
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[ huh. ]
We were officers in his army. He was aimin' to be the next king, and we were helpin' him get there, by whatever means necessary.
Realised a little too late that weren't actually a good idea. [ ... ] I realised it too late. Bas got there a while before I did.
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Ah, I see. [ mulls that over... ] I do know a little about the function of your world, at least. In that I know how you are treated.
[ ... ]
I assume this Count Louis sold you on a plan to fix that. [ he thinks both brothers wouldn't put their support behind a king unless that king aimed to make the world better for everybody, not just him. ]
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he nods. ]
A world of equality where your birth don't matter, and people of all tribes have a chance to succeed based on their own merits. And it weren't just talk neither; he treated the paripus within his ranks with respect, even made the likes of us into his right hand men.
Ruthless against anyone who went against him, but time was, I saw that as a sellin' point rather than a downside. Didn't have to worry about him bending to anyone else's influence like the spineless king we had before.
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[ his tail swishes back and forth as he thinks about this. ]
It sounds like perhaps you and Basilio both experienced the downside firsthand.
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... I'm sorry that he turned on you. [ his voice suggests that he thinks louis is a shit. ]
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[ it's still conflicted, because louis did a lot of genuinely good things for them personally, and they really would have died a long time ago if he hadn't so drastically changed the trajectory of their lives. fidelio absolutely wants the bastard dead now, no question about that, but. it's complicated. ]
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Basilio told me a little about the captain he hopes will rule instead. I liked his vision.
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