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Aiden KluYaAiden KluYa is a Lunarian Crystal Master who has spent his lifetime on the Blue Planet. Once cursed to a prison on the Summit of Mt. Ordeals, he has now been released and resides at the Cottage in the Borderlands. Here, he is reconnecting with his long lost family and friends. Underneath his gentle and mild mannered personality, he harbors a deep secret. Comics: 44 |
Leona PollendinaLeona Pollendina is the daughter of Master Engineer, Cid. She claims to be a young ace pilot… however her crash record seems to indicate otherwise. She finds simple pleasure in cutting finishing school, playing pranks and annoying the stuffy royal family. She has just recently found herself mixed up in the company of the Master Wizard, Benjamin Ya. Comics: 34 |
Professor KoryProfessor Kory is a travelling scholar who just happened to have close encounters of the weird kind. His main focus of study was the Red Moon… before it left the Blue Planet’s orbit. Down on his luck with women, he turned his attention towards freeing his long time friend, Aiden KluYa, from the curse of Mt. Ordeals. What he ended up getting, however… was more than he bargained for. Comics: 54 |
Kory: Weren’t you a servant of the Arweinydd before?
KY: Shhh, Kory! *whispers* He still is.
Tai: |: / If it’s between the two of them and their freedom… and me… then I’ll go. They have family. And I… *looks away* It doesn’t matter.
Leona: Oh…
Bad Tai.
I knew it.
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Tai, you may not like rules, but you definitely are being VERY paladin-ish here.
Inspiring! I shall sleep well tonight. There still ARE heroes and heroic ideals.
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I have to disagree. A Paladin sacrifices himself because he’s selfless. Tai’s not being selfless here, he’s denying that he has any worth as a person at all.
He’s trying to make up for his sins and that’s not what Paladins do.
Paladins recognize they’ve been forgiven and I don’t think Tai understands that yet.
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And, more importantly, he hasn’t forgiven himself.
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While he hasn’t forgiven himself, I disagree that he’s denying he has any worth (at least, that’s not how I wrote this).
He mourns the loss of his family deeply. He sees AsaHi and Miran as mothers with husbands and children who want them home safely — and knows what it feels like to have lost loved ones.
He, on the other hand, does not have a family. Therefore, he feels that it would be terribly selfish NOT to give himself if that would reunite these two families. He sees this as his duty. That doesn’t mean he’s not sad about his own family, though.
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So then… he is being very heroic. Go tai. *Cheers*
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Lots of people struggle to forgive themselves. That doesn’t mean they feel they don’t have self-worth.
My issues during that time weren’t that I didn’t have self-worth (I knew I could kick butt), but rather, I didn’t see my purpose in the new world I was adjusting to. I didn’t have something to fight for.
I’d lost everything I wanted to protect and had to start all over again. I wasn’t sure I wanted to do that… since it all ended so badly the first time. It was hard to believe that life had anything good waiting for me.
I’m glad I was wrong. For once. Just once, though.
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*hugs Tai* But you get so much fan love. ;_; *shares a mango with him* A mango a day gives purpose to life?
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I know how you feel, Tai. I feel that way too right now.
Sorry. I guess it was late at night and I was feeling angsty. Thanks for clearing up your motivations for me, it helps a lot.
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It’s not a problem, Rose. I’m not very good at communicating what I really want to say. I suppose ego gets in the way.
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And thanks for the mango, Kimi. *munches*
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The difference is that a paladin is a stuck up Lawful Good, while Tai is a bad-ass Neutral Good. : P
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Paladins don’t *have* to be stuck-up. Ever read the Paksenarrion books?
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Lawful good? Someone hasn’t met my *cough* oh-so Paladinly *cough-cough* boss who tends to bend the rules.
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Isn’t he the king and therefore makes the rules?
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I agree. Once you get his holy-swordness to lighten up, Cecil’s pretty cool to hang around with. He just has a rather… different… sense of humor.
Of course, he has to do a lot of bendy rules on my behalf. I’m always breaking or challenging them.
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Dear Junior, the definition of ‘lawful’ is that you bend the rules, rather than break them.
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Junior, how’s the statue coming?
((See? Paladins have a sense of humor
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And Thari is wise to point out the difference between breaking and bending. Some paladins openly admit that higher laws require the bending of “lower” ones. As Klu Ya once said “some fight for law; some fight for justice”, meaning that there is something higher than just codes of social order. Cecil is not at all breaking any of the laws his dad is implying, and those are the ones in which he holds closest.
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Neutral good? Is that how I’m classified? I like that.
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Now now! There are plenty of fun-loving paladins out there!
Besides, “lawful good” has as much to do with community vs. individual as it does for laws…and also for the amount of laws or how “codified” they are. Chaotic Good elves have laws and love their communities, but their laws tend to be very simple and tend to emphasize the individual’s importance.
Not to mention what is law to one isn’t law to another. There is also the idea of “higher laws”, going into the realm of philosophy, religion, and logic.
So a Lawful Good paladin doesn’t need to be a stuffy goody-two-shoes. Some have a great sense of humor and deal very eloquently and humbly when disagreements arise.
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Bah he just realized he’ll have a potetnial chance to scythe Chaos itself.
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That’s true, too. XD
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While singing the nefolian anthem, too!
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nah. He can’t do it while singing the anthem.
While singing it, he must have one hand glued to his head and the other tied behind his back. It’s very hard to hold a scythe like that, especially while hanging upside down from the ceiling.
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Maybe the nefolian anthem is so atrocious, that singing it backwards causes brain death or people to purposefully knock themselves unconscious.
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Touché…
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It isn’t that I am saying that your singing is bad Tai. Just living in a country with a national anthem that is a bit bad, which is then normally converted to agonizing pain for sports games and the like, I know that they exist. I don’t even want to know how the US national anthem sounds backwards. Though I suppose if you really wanted to enhance the death wishes, you could sing it in your marked form.
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@@;; what anthem is this?!
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US or Nefolian? Nefolian is in reference to a previous Tai comment. US is in reference to the national anthem that is normally drawn out and is an extremely difficult song.
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