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Subj: The internet is still there, right? Posted: Sat Dec 03, 2016 at 03:15:28 pm EST (Viewed 3 times) | Reply Subj: I wish I had one this weekend. Posted: Fri Dec 02, 2016 at 11:28:24 pm EST (Viewed 916 times) | ||||||
Quote: I can't really think of anyone in that age range who might add sensibility to that group. Faite is still working on overcoming her apathy toward, well, everything. Liu Xi has the same problem as Ham-Boy, where she's part of the Lair Legion now and the Juniors would be jealous and angry that she didn't go through a training program at all. That's okay. I'm learning to work with the new dynamic. It actually help reflect the fact that the core cast are getting a bit older and therefore a bit more self-aware and responsible. Different Juniors get to be "the sensible one" at different times, a bit like in life. Quote: Quote: 1. The traditional lore and training that the one or two Caphans in a generation with this gift receive from Caphan spiritual elders are not available to her, since she's a female and her power therefore clearly comes from evil spirits. Quote: That may help to convince Chiaki, because she's a teacher at heart and would have an issue with someone being told that unless there were actual evil spirits involved.As far as we know, the traditional psychic prophecy gift that occasionally crops up in Caphans is genetic rather than supernatural. Nor is there anythin other than cultural reasons for it being wrong for a female to possess it. That said, for a couple of tghousand years or more Caphans have been taught that if a male can see the future he is blessed by the gods but a woman who does that is possessed by demons. Even in modern cosmopolitan Caph there's a fundamentalist core who hold to the "proper traditions". Quote: Quote: 2. Having spent so long supressing her power (for self-preservation), Vespiir holds back; maybe even she thinks its bad deep inside?Quote: Now that, Chiaki would understand. She holds back her own power because she either has a fear, or awareness (remains to be seen which), that if she didn't resist it, she would see things that weren't happening yet all the time. And society has some unkind words for that.I don't doubt that sooner of later, Visionary, Miiri, Yuki or somebody is going to point Chiaki in Vespiir's direction. She might even see it coming. Liu Xi's relationship with Vesp might be of a different nature. They are of similar age and have had some similar experiences of being men's property. Liu Xi is years ahead of Vespiir in getting past her conditioning though. Quote: Quote: Vespiir's training is further complicated because she's been brought up to treat everything a male in authority tells her as if it was true and to behave as if she believes it completely. So even if, say, Vinnie was to talk with her about her gifts, she would agree with him completely out of respect for him and a general duty of obedience even if she didn;t understand or believe what he said. Quote: Also because a gift like that is so abstract, Vinnie can only speak in theory on how it works. Chiaki can tell her what it feels like, what those feelings mean about how truthful and likely the vision is, and how far away it is.Cleone Swanmay might know, but she's a creature of fabulous myth, about as remote from Vespiir's experience as a robot. Quote: Quote: The same is probably true of the "high women" of her new Clan, especially Miiri and Hallie. Vespiir was a pleasure slave of a provincial clan, effectively "middle class" where Miiri and the Lost Treasures were all of noble strains. Miiri's birth-sister is literally royalty. Most of the LL females and associatesseem like very senior lemans (e.g. Yuki) or Earth's equivalent of slavemistresses, organising others after winning their way to secure maturity. Citizen Z terrifies her because she can "see" her link to Herringcapr Asylum.Quote: That might pose the same problem with Chiaki, though. While Chiaki was born to a middle class family, she worked her way to fairly high status...which may color Vespiir's impression of her. At the same time, though, she has experience as a teacher, and has a lot of patience, so she might be able to coax her way to helping her.Another Caphan "thing" is the career paths that women take. In addition to the elite pleasure slaves (present amongst all classes and of higher status than their class peers) there are the guildwomen who do the techncial jobs (everything from medicine to farming, the professionals), the lemans (practical specialist servants of lords, ranging from accountants to assassins, sometimes in the same person), the commons, and the drudges. Combat-capable Chiaki and many of the other heroic women on Earth most closely fit the leman role. Pleasure slaves and lemans are often wary of each other. Above all of these are slavemistresses, usually but not always retired pleasure slaves who "made it",elders responsible for the training and discipline of younger slaves. Several of the LL's female associates best fit that description in Vespiir's mind, which makes her respect and fear them. Chiaki, mentoring others like Anna, may seem to Vespiir to hold that role. Quote: Chiaki sees things like Citizen Z's true nature as well. She believes that everyone has secrets, though, and it's their current deeds that are more important.If anything, Chiaki is probably impressed at how Laurie manages to hold that madness at bay and harness it to good effect. | |||||||
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