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samuraiprosecutor) wrote2008-09-30 06:27 pm
samuraiprosecutor) wrote2008-09-30 06:27 pm
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57: [Not posted] Social Experiment
The experiment, such as it was, came to a successful end. Naturally I expected to find delusions and I wasn’t disappointed. Some knew, of course, while others simply believed that they did. Inexperience was apparent in many—particularly the young—along with cowardice and...other misconceptions besides.
Still...the results weren't skewed in quite the manner I'd expected. The reality was represented in ways I hadn't anticipated, leaving me to question how accurate the sample could truly have been. This community, by its nature, seems to attract the unusual. Its members live lives beyond the norm--the worlds of so many are epic backdrops to quests on grand scales, while others...seem to draw a disproportionate level of attention from fate.
If the sample had a different source, would pain still have been such a prevalent response? Would so many understand what it is to sacrifice, selflessly and without reward?
Perhaps so.
At any rate, I posed my questions...and received the answer to another I'd never intended to ask.
...It would be simpler if I returned. Simpler if I continued the work he so rudely interrupted. It's been only a matter of months; hardly time to forget, let alone begin to long for. Though, I suppose it's to be expected, as the subject was quite inadvertently breached on several recent occasions, and Paris was only the first of many stops. There were other destinations--places where things have always been clearer.
But there are duties to perform, still. I'll content myself with visits and with...this. For now, it will be enough.
Another season's begun. Last week ended in a cold snap, with a slight chill to the dulled days and the first rain to fall in...months possibly. Today the heat returned--it burned away all traces of the crisp evenings, but it won't be this warm for much longer.
The holidays will arrive soon.
((OOC: Regarding this post. Typed up and saved on his computer, not posted to his journal.))
Still...the results weren't skewed in quite the manner I'd expected. The reality was represented in ways I hadn't anticipated, leaving me to question how accurate the sample could truly have been. This community, by its nature, seems to attract the unusual. Its members live lives beyond the norm--the worlds of so many are epic backdrops to quests on grand scales, while others...seem to draw a disproportionate level of attention from fate.
If the sample had a different source, would pain still have been such a prevalent response? Would so many understand what it is to sacrifice, selflessly and without reward?
Perhaps so.
At any rate, I posed my questions...and received the answer to another I'd never intended to ask.
...It would be simpler if I returned. Simpler if I continued the work he so rudely interrupted. It's been only a matter of months; hardly time to forget, let alone begin to long for. Though, I suppose it's to be expected, as the subject was quite inadvertently breached on several recent occasions, and Paris was only the first of many stops. There were other destinations--places where things have always been clearer.
But there are duties to perform, still. I'll content myself with visits and with...this. For now, it will be enough.
Another season's begun. Last week ended in a cold snap, with a slight chill to the dulled days and the first rain to fall in...months possibly. Today the heat returned--it burned away all traces of the crisp evenings, but it won't be this warm for much longer.
The holidays will arrive soon.
((OOC: Regarding this post. Typed up and saved on his computer, not posted to his journal.))
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Ten wouldn't really do much with it other than wonder why he was asking, and what Edgeworth was planning to do with any answers he got. And fff, I'm sure Ten could figure some things out, he's good at hints. XD I wouldn't be surprised if he ended up figuring out everyone's secrets from dropped hints and just keeping them all veeeeery quiet. >.>
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That...sounds like Ten all right. XD Hmm... Well there's always the possibility of conversations between Phoenix and Edgeworth getting kind of gay and tipping him off to Edgeworth's feelings, especially given some of anon's "in love with someone who doesn't return the feelings" answers. Would he do anything if he figured it out, or would he keep it to himelf and watch the situation? I don't know when, how, or even if Phoenix will admit on the comm that he's in love with Iris or planning to try it again.
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Ha ha, Ten would so, so, spot that. Um. He'd probably keep it to himself, except he wouldn't feel all to comfortable about it, and if he did carry on watching the situation it might end up frustrating him to the point where he just makes a post like "AAAAAARGH YOU HUMANS AND YOUR BLOODY RELATIONSHIPS ARE SO FRUSTRATING, FFFF." And he'd probably be his annoying self and keep dropping very vague comments into stuff that he says. Or if Ten felt like pushing his luck and Nick didn't actually announce said trying again, he might end up being a very vague, time-lord version of a matchmaker. XD It all depends on the circumstances and his mood, I guess.
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...So much for 'let's IM or email and plot!' XD
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...i can type, really.
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