blood sweat tear

[imeanforever]

He's moving her to a different court to see if it'll improve her attitude. She's allowed to fly. It's been a long, long time since she was allowed to -

She is only allowed to fly to her destination, not anywhere else. She notices that she is not where she should be, that she cannot progress to where she was told to go, and she careens out of control when her wings won't flap anymore, and she crashes.

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with Miles (kappa)

with Minus (kappa)

Comments

[thisvorlunatic]

"It sounds pretty farcical to me. We'd have to redact the Emperor's name from the loyalty oath, assuming you could even take the loyalty oath since I doubt Eleven wants to let you in the same room with the Emperor long enough to say anything, and you couldn't ever learn what the vast majority of planets and interplanetary governing bodies in the galaxy are commonly called because any one of them probably shares syllables with a few billion people's names. For that matter I guess I'm taking your word for it that you're not analyzing everything I say for possible name contents. But even if you're being nice and not peeking, most political entities aren't named things that are otherwise words."

[imeanforever]

"I am not laboriously rendering your utterances into phonemes and juggling them into sequences that might theoretically sound nice to a human parent."

[thisvorlunatic]

"Good. Also, in case you were wondering, my professional analysis of how easily you could in fact conquer my planet is 'very quickly, but for at most a couple of weeks before the inevitable civil war started'. We have a galactic reputation for being a really bad idea to try to conquer for good reason."

[imeanforever]

"I have no reason to think your planet needs conquering, not that I'm basing this lack of impression on much information."

[thisvorlunatic]

"I wish you could meet my Emperor in some sort of minimally fraught social context. I like him. He's... the sort of person an Emperor should be."

[imeanforever]

"High praise. Is he the letter writing type?"

[thisvorlunatic]

"Oh, probably."

[imeanforever]

"Seems easy to redact."

[thisvorlunatic]

"You'd think that. And, well, it is, but... he's the Emperor. I get to be only mildly paranoid about how I interact with you, because I don't rule three planets. The Emperor can't take the risk that you might secretly be scamming us about how this whole system works. I don't think you are, he doesn't think you are, I'm not even sure Eleven actually thinks you are, but security is security and... the magical unilateral liege relationships are an especially upsetting possibility, I think."

[imeanforever]

"Not that I want you to be more paranoid, or anything, but it's more or less traditional to ask a new vassal for all the names they know anyway."

[thisvorlunatic]

"Which would save you two hours. Concealing the Emperor's name from you if you really want it is a lost cause; that's why everyone is so aggressively paranoid about making sure you can't communicate directly with him in any way. For similar reasons you're very unlikely to meet Eleven."

[imeanforever]

"...I think I won't extensively theorize about how I'd conquer the planet if I wanted to. It sounds much less hassle all around to just buy one."

[thisvorlunatic]

"Yes, I agree."

[imeanforever]