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Toriel ([personal profile] totoriel) wrote in [community profile] pawnstorm 2016-03-01 04:05 am (UTC)

Humans, monsters, Toriel might debate that almost anyone can be prone to shortsightedness. She couldn't leave herself out of that claim. But as it is, the renewed whines and wiggles from AD as he tries to ply his doggie whiles further on Emil has her glancing down at her shameless Carrier. What a ham!

And what valid things to consider that this young man brings up.

"They ask for us to use the magic they refuse against those who embrace magic, no? It is a curious conundrum. We are safe because we are part of this philosophy of the divine with how we arrive." She looks skyward, reading out to place a hand on AD's wriggling rump. It stills the dog in Emil's lap, for the moment. "Yet they wish for us to fight, not to negotiate. It is understandable that there is fear and aggression that is feared from those in Noir. Yet they do not ask us to be a shield. They ask us to be Heroes."

She leaves those thoughts unfinished. They're complicated, similar to ones she's seen and lived through before, but not with herself as part of the focus. Leading? Yes, she's done that, and she's realised how she's failed that before, too. Not out of intention, but out of leaving it to her ex-husband when she could no longer broker with the stance he took after their son and adopted child died.

They all make mistakes. Which ones are Blanc and Noir making even now? "We do have ideas. Yet those are not asked for, I have found. Much as we are not asked, please, we will fight for them. Or if we have it in us to fight in the ways that we are warned we may need to, for a home that is not our own. Are we to kill to defend Blanc? Will we do so fighting at the side of their soldiers, or standing before them? These are not pleasant thoughts."

She shakes her head, lifting her paw off AD. She breathes out in a small huff of apologetic laughter. "I am sorry. This old woman should not bring such dark thoughts into such a bright day! We must look forward and act to ensure the worst does not come to pass. For us, for our wishes to return to where we belong, or even for the people of this country." She doesn't wish any of them harm in the long or short term. It's not in her nature to wish harm on much of anyone.

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