"According to practically everyone you have to be polite and respectful to the emperor because if you're not and he let you live he looks weak or some spit like that." She actually did turn her face from him to spit on the ground. "And apparently even my ocean walled thoughts are loud. And you're not allowed to put your ocean walled hands over your ear if he roars, not that it help, but it is still an ocean walled reflex. Can't slouch or crack a joke or speak anything other than High Barrani. There are reasons I'm never sent out on cases where I have to speak to rich people or powerful people. Pretty ocean walled sure the Emperor is the most of either of those.
It wasn't fully true anymore, that she was never sent to talk to powerful or rich people, but it was something that had changed so gradually that she really didn't realize it unless she actively stopped to think about it. Partially because in her mind once she got to know someone she saw them as them before she saw their money or power. She'd even lived in the palace for a while, though she had hated every moment of it and had moved out as soon as she could...
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Re: Sephiroth | OTA
Date: 2025-05-08 08:10 am (UTC)It wasn't fully true anymore, that she was never sent to talk to powerful or rich people, but it was something that had changed so gradually that she really didn't realize it unless she actively stopped to think about it. Partially because in her mind once she got to know someone she saw them as them before she saw their money or power. She'd even lived in the palace for a while, though she had hated every moment of it and had moved out as soon as she could...