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distressedude) wrote2012-11-17 06:41 pm
distressedude) wrote2012-11-17 06:41 pm
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026 ~ [Voice/Action] | Forward-dated to Sunday
[It's been two weeks since the incident with Arietta, and there was still no sign of Anise in the village. They never even had a chance to speak before she left for a mission, likely in an attempt to put some distance between herself and Ion after their argument. It's strange to think that the last time they went this long without speaking to each other by choice was around this same time last year, though for a very different reason. He's been so caught up in dealing with all of this that he actually let the anniversary of the day he first confessed his feelings for her pass by without a single thought!]
[It was strange to think so much time had already passed. He wasn't entirely sure how to feel about it really.]
[But sometime in the late afternoon, he opens his journal. There's no need to bother with a filter while Anise is still out of the village, and it isn't as though Arietta is the one he's trying to reason with here. Her anger is easier to understand and deal with. There's an uncharacteristic hint of exasperation in his voice when he speaks, having spent the last week and a half mulling over this without any obvious solution coming to mind.]
How do you stop two people who hate each other from continuing to hate each other? [Not a very eloquent way of asking, but it's the simplest way he can think of to explain the situation.]
Though this isn't the sort of problem I'm expecting an easy answer to, I was hoping someone might be able to offer some suggestions. Or perhaps if anyone's had any experience in dealing with a situation like this, it might be of some help.
[And regardless as to whether he's heard any solutions to this problem or not, he'll be spending the remainder of the evening in various places around town. He spends about an hour at the library, not quite able to concentrate on his reading. Giving that up, he goes for an aimless walk, lingering on the various bridges around town for a few minutes before moving on again. He probably looks more spaced out than he usually is, and the cold chill in the air probably isn't helping matters. By the time he arrives back home, it's been dark for awhile and he's shivering quite a bit. He probably should have worn his winter coat today.]
[It was strange to think so much time had already passed. He wasn't entirely sure how to feel about it really.]
[But sometime in the late afternoon, he opens his journal. There's no need to bother with a filter while Anise is still out of the village, and it isn't as though Arietta is the one he's trying to reason with here. Her anger is easier to understand and deal with. There's an uncharacteristic hint of exasperation in his voice when he speaks, having spent the last week and a half mulling over this without any obvious solution coming to mind.]
How do you stop two people who hate each other from continuing to hate each other? [Not a very eloquent way of asking, but it's the simplest way he can think of to explain the situation.]
Though this isn't the sort of problem I'm expecting an easy answer to, I was hoping someone might be able to offer some suggestions. Or perhaps if anyone's had any experience in dealing with a situation like this, it might be of some help.
[And regardless as to whether he's heard any solutions to this problem or not, he'll be spending the remainder of the evening in various places around town. He spends about an hour at the library, not quite able to concentrate on his reading. Giving that up, he goes for an aimless walk, lingering on the various bridges around town for a few minutes before moving on again. He probably looks more spaced out than he usually is, and the cold chill in the air probably isn't helping matters. By the time he arrives back home, it's been dark for awhile and he's shivering quite a bit. He probably should have worn his winter coat today.]
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Why do they "hate" each other?
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[At least, as far as Ion can tell. Without Van here, what reason did Arietta have to align against them?]
I don't expect them to ever be friends, but I'm afraid of what will happen if things continue to escalate between the two of them.
[Video]
There are several problems with that, eh. Sometimes there are things someone can never forgive. [Marco himself will never be able to forgive... a lot of people. He might not try to kill all of them if they were here, but his family would be hard-pressed to hold him back from trying. And indeed had to do just that sometimes.]
You were friends with both of them back home though?
[Video]
...it's complicated. [Understatement.] Regardless, I'd like to say I consider both to be my friends now. And it seems as though they hate each other more and more as time goes on...
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Like I said, some things are unforgivable, but others tend to be something more like a misunderstanding.
[Video] //filtered 10% NOW WITH MORE LOLI DRAMA~
[There's a brief pause while he tosses up a filter -- just enough to keep prying eyes away.]
Anise was my Fon Master Guardian back home. You can think of it like a bodyguard, but she was also my best friend.
["Best friend," all right. Marco may or may not remember her name from that one entry the two of them had back when they were still under the influence of a mallynap effect.]
Arietta used to be a Fon Master Guardian, for the previous Fon Master... who she was led to believe was the same person as myself. [A pause, as though he's going to say more on that, but decides against it.] She had always blamed Anise for "replacing" her as my guardian, but only because she wasn't supposed to know that the boy she had originally been guarding wasn't there anymore.
But before I arrived in Luceti... something else happened that Arietta blames Anise for. And I guess in turn, the resentment Arietta always held for Anise made Anise hate Arietta as well.
[Video] //filtered 70% HURRAY // He's just gonna bump that filter up
If not, then you're facing the toughest part. You could ask them both to act as your body guard and best friend, and as such, ask them to find a way to work with each other peaceably. However, that puts you in the position of risking your friendship with either, or even both of them, as either one might feel you're taking the other's side. It has the greatest risk, but possibly the greatest reward. If you trust them to both value their friendship with you that much, and to be reasonable enough to put that ahead of their enmity and jealousy with each other, then it could work. But like I said, it has a great risk.
[Video] //filtered 70%
Actually, I've already tried talking to Anise about all of this. When she kept insisting she was in the right, I lost my temper with her... that was two weeks ago now, and we haven't spoken to each other since.
But even if it would mean risking my continued friendship with either of them, I'd rather they be angry at me than bring harm to one another. I know they're both more than capable of doing what they've threatened... I don't want to see them get hurt.
[Or worse.]
[Video] //filtered 70%
Mah, I guess at this point then your best bet would be ask them both to find a way to work together for your sake, eh. At some point all three of you could wind up on a draft or mission together, and if Anise doesn't want to help protect you if Arietta is still at it, then just tell her you're both missing out on a chance for something good here.
Does Arietta still think you're the same boy you were supposed to be or something?
[Video] //filtered 70%
Not entirely. Although I explained to her the truth of what happened after she arrived in Luceti, I don't think she fully understands that I'm a different person... we have the same name and face.
[Which is a whole 'nother can of worms that he's not sure he wants to just spill out to someone he doesn't know very well. Especially when it's someone he isn't sure will understand...]
[Video] //filtered 70%
[Video] //filtered 70%
Even if it had been feasible to go on letting her believe I was someone else, I don't think I would have been able to continue lying to her. It's... too painful.
Perhaps even just as much for me as it for her.
[Video] //filtered 70%
So now that Arietta is aware that you're a different person, she has less qualms about that, or does she still not like that Anise seemingly replaced her?
[Video] //filtered 70%
As for Arietta... her hatred for Anise almost seems to be beyond that. Sometimes I wonder if either side is even aware of why they hate each other so much anymore.
[Video] // filtered 70%
Ah.
I have... a few of my own old rivalries a little similar to that, I think. Not enough to want to kill the rival. [Otherwise you know, he'd just kill them. Or at least try. Unless he just wants to leave them alive to humiliate them... which he's been known to do.] But enough to find them incredibly irritating in a way that seems impossible to describe. My little brother though, he's very close to one such... rival. [One day Marco will find the right word to describe Shanks. One day...] On the one hand, that's even more annoying because it gives Shanks a reason to hang around, the damn bastard. [And maybe Marco gets a little jealous of the way Ace likes Shanks... maybe!] But on the other hand...
Shanks worked hard to help protect my brother and save my family. And for that, I can forgive a lot.
It's a little different though, because Shanks never hated me. [He rubs the back of his neck.] He picked a fight with my Pops though, but he worked with my old man to help protect my little brothers in the end. And the only reason he picked the fight in the first place... was because he wanted to protect the little brother of mine that he's close to. [And Shanks was an arrogant idiot who thought he understood a situation he didn't have the first clue about, and an enemy that the whole world couldn't afford to trust, much less face -- in Marco's opinion, that is. Ah well, it was all too late now, anyway.]
So I think it comes down to what Anise and Arietta consider more important: hating each other, or being your nakama.
And when it comes to protecting nakama... I know in my case even someone I hate enough to kill, I'll put it aside in order to protect the ones important to me. Even someone like Crocodile who tried to kill my nakama before. He just hated a mutual enemy of ours both even more than us, so we had a momentary truce in order to stop that mutual enemy.
If they need someone to hate, there's plenty to find around here. Between the Malnosso or Third Party. I guess it depends on their true ambitions.