[STOP YEAH.... he can't wink so he'll flash her a cheeky grin]
Monks are way more impressive than Bookman. They got that far with their faith and dedication alone. If I didn't have a photographic memory, then Gramps wouldn't have looked at me twice.
History's "messes" usually mean wars. Lives lost, families torn apart. Though, yes, the best literature in my personal opinion comes from war eras... I find it because they're easier to relate to.
[ Modernism, and tragedies. Though perhaps not the kind that revolve so deeply around familial things as these three tragedies do. ]
No. Ghoul lifespans aren't known to be any longer than humans...
If anything, with the rate that ghouls are often killed, the lifespan is shorter on average, in a sense.
Historians... there must be some out there who seek it. In the 24th Ward, there are secret pockets of ghouls that remain isolated from the surface world, driven under there by necessity -- they're close to what could be considered "traditional".
But I've not known any ghoul historians, aside from the occasional somewhat insane human with a vested interest.
Well, if you're obsessing yourself with a subspecies of human who are genetically engineered to eat humans, it does ask for some level of insanity, right?
It isn't as if society exactly paints ghouls nicely to begin with.
[ Oh sorry WRONG WORD CHOICE I MEANT BIOLOGICALLY. But honestly both ways are actually true. ]
-- Biologically, I meant, for the most part. Though genetic engineering has been a thing as well. The wonders a mad scientist can do when given the appropriate access and tools.
It would've been unthinkable, up until about a year or two ago. These days, the CCG have approved a method of purposefully surgically inputting ghoul kagune into young investigators.
Inputting... [not these dgm parallels] And if they're investigators, they're gonna want to do their best no matter what.
[it's a neat trap, and one that feels familiar... he shakes his head, he shouldn't assume if he doesn't know their choices. He barely knows anything about Eto's world, and how fraught the tension might be.]
The Church has that too. They're running a program to make humans half-Akuma, that way they can make more soldiers.
They really will condemn and kill what they fear on sight, which is already awful as it is -- but then to use their own corpses against their own kind...
It's always been a thing. It was called a "quinque", weapons made out of the kakuhou harvested from hunted ghouls. These new investigators, the "quinx", are essentially just human weapons.
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The product of years and years of practicing! I won't say that I don't have a natural talent for it though.
[he has unfortunately remembered the little of the fault in our stars he was forced to read]
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[ Yaywon... cursed by Hazel Grace forevermore... ]
Or is it truly just a product of training? I know Buddhist monks practice for years and years to be able to recite the sutras from memory alone.
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Monks are way more impressive than Bookman. They got that far with their faith and dedication alone. If I didn't have a photographic memory, then Gramps wouldn't have looked at me twice.
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[ Accidentally losing cr points by happening to choose three Greek tragedies revolving around lineage and parentage... ]
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Yeah? What's your take then?
[look he can't read brackets but she clearly did not look enthused?]
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Photographic memory isn't really a choice, is it?
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But it's just picking up what other people put down. If they don't wanna remember them, then I will.
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I don't like to pick up after the messes that others cause.
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I don't either.
[weird, how eto's words just summoned the feelings Lavi always keeps so carefully suppressed. he tries to follow it up with something light, stops]
But that's what history's full of. Messes.
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[ Modernism, and tragedies. Though perhaps not the kind that revolve so deeply around familial things as these three tragedies do. ]
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...Because of the ghouls and humans in your world?
[he remembers her mentioning revolution in her book, though he's not sure how much of that is just fiction, or inspiration]
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Anyone can die, any day, and often with unnecessary cruelty from both sides.
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How'd it start? Has it been like that since the beginning?
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For as long as I've known, for certain, and my father, and my father's father.
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If anything, with the rate that ghouls are often killed, the lifespan is shorter on average, in a sense.
Historians... there must be some out there who seek it. In the 24th Ward, there are secret pockets of ghouls that remain isolated from the surface world, driven under there by necessity -- they're close to what could be considered "traditional".
But I've not known any ghoul historians, aside from the occasional somewhat insane human with a vested interest.
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[. . . . . .]
How insane is 'somewhat'?
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It isn't as if society exactly paints ghouls nicely to begin with.
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[SCIENCE DID THIS?]
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-- Biologically, I meant, for the most part. Though genetic engineering has been a thing as well. The wonders a mad scientist can do when given the appropriate access and tools.
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Lavi's expression immediately looks so tired at the mention of 'mad scientist', then grows serious.]
'Access', huh... I'm guessing that it's not all voluntary either.
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...
[ God. ]
It would've been unthinkable, up until about a year or two ago. These days, the CCG have approved a method of purposefully surgically inputting ghoul kagune into young investigators.
So, I suppose it is also voluntary now.
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Inputting... [not these dgm parallels] And if they're investigators, they're gonna want to do their best no matter what.
[it's a neat trap, and one that feels familiar... he shakes his head, he shouldn't assume if he doesn't know their choices. He barely knows anything about Eto's world, and how fraught the tension might be.]
The Church has that too. They're running a program to make humans half-Akuma, that way they can make more soldiers.
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They really will condemn and kill what they fear on sight, which is already awful as it is -- but then to use their own corpses against their own kind...
It's always been a thing. It was called a "quinque", weapons made out of the kakuhou harvested from hunted ghouls. These new investigators, the "quinx", are essentially just human weapons.
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