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King ♛ Logan ([personal profile] decrees) wrote2012-12-09 05:17 pm

THIRD ORDER ♛ ANONYMOUS TEXT

[Logan has been the King of Albion for twelve years. His reign is at an end, however - his sister staged a coup and will take the throne as soon as he returns to Albion. Logan isn't upset with her - if anything, he's relieved that he no longer has to deal with everything. He's relieved that he doesn't have to face down the threat of incoming darkness - a threat he's known about for four years and hasn't been able to stop. He's confident that his sister can handle the throne, but it isn't a position he ever would have wanted to put her in. He does care about her in his own stunted way, after all.

It's been nearly eleven years since Logan's mother, the previous Queen, died. She was the one who united Albion under a monarchy and ruled for fifty years of peace and prosperity. Yes, there were issues - any country with 6.5 million people is bound to have them - but she handled them all as best she could and will most likely go down in history as a benevolent, wonderful monarch. She would be disappointed in him; Logan's positive of that much. He started his rule as a monarch dedicated to his people, but circumstances drove him to become a tyrant.

He's spent the day being far more subdued than usual, keeping to himself and occasionally examining the 'Gear, but it takes hours for Logan to finally get up the courage to actually post to the network, even anonymously. He's adapted to this world far better than he ever thought he would, and now that he has adapted, he's finding that he rather likes Johto. He doesn't have the same responsibilities and expectations placed on him. He's free. It's not something he ever would have thought he wanted back home, but it's something he's finding that he's desperately needed this entire time.]


How do you deal with failure? How do you deal with not living up to the expectations set for you?

I believe there are some monarchs or rulers here. How do you deal with the people of your nation despising you for what you've done, even if what you've done was for their own good?


[...He's kind of the most obvious anon. Just let him pretend, alright.]
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[personal profile] pretentions 2012-12-10 03:47 am (UTC)(link)
In which case, forgive me for speaking so bluntly - but there's nothing to be done but save what you can. Some may die, but if you continue to worry about saving everyone in a circumstance such as this, you will end up wasting time and resources.

At least, I believe such; again, ruling a country has never been my responsibility. However, I am in charge of protecting a certain population of people; this is what works as far as my experience extends.
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[personal profile] pretentions 2012-12-10 03:51 am (UTC)(link)
[...wait WHAT]

...what you've been doing has been resulting in the deaths of your countrymen before the threat has begun to attack the population?
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[personal profile] pretentions 2012-12-10 03:57 am (UTC)(link)
[...JUST...]

Dare I ask what you were even doing that led to such a revolt?
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[personal profile] pretentions 2012-12-10 04:04 am (UTC)(link)
[YOU

JUST

WHAT

YOU

OTL]


Is there a reason you couldn't train your countrymen to fight and instead felt that you had to fund some sort of personal militia, or am I misunderstanding the situation?
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[personal profile] pretentions 2012-12-10 04:11 am (UTC)(link)
[...that...weirdly gets him to calm down. He seriously has had no idea what you are looking at - seriously, man, you have been making it sound like everything is fine, but you know that the goddamn Fire Nation is going to attack.]

Is this threat you're referring to supernatural in origin? That changes things.

[If this is anything like Caster...]
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[personal profile] pretentions 2012-12-10 04:19 am (UTC)(link)
I have, yes. As I said, that changes things; part of my job is ensuring that the people in the area I'm designated to protect are kept both safe from harm and largely unaware of this sort of large-scale threat, due to the amount of disbelief in the best-case scenario, and large-scale panic and destruction in the worst.

Do you have anyone that can engage such a threat on its level - mages, exorcists, or others who are capable of harnessing the supernatural for themselves?
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[personal profile] pretentions 2012-12-10 04:25 am (UTC)(link)
[...oh wait just a minute]

...King Logan, I'm going to assume this is you that I'm speaking to...
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[personal profile] pretentions 2012-12-10 04:33 am (UTC)(link)
I'm not faulting you for that; again, I've been in a similar situation to what you're facing, from the sound of it. I wouldn't want anything like this getting to those from Fuyuki City, either.

What sort of supernatural threat are you facing? Have you any idea what it does?
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[personal profile] pretentions 2012-12-10 04:41 am (UTC)(link)
[So basically, it's Caster all over again...]

And do you know the source of its power? Any ideas what its vulnerabilities might be?
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[personal profile] pretentions 2012-12-10 04:49 am (UTC)(link)
I would continue strategizing with you if I felt that it would do you any good; however, as one that's been returned to my own world and brought back to Johto, I can tell you now that anything you do here won't be remembered back in Albion. Whatever advice you receive here can bring you temporary comfort while you remain here, nothing more.
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[personal profile] pretentions 2012-12-10 04:56 am (UTC)(link)
I wasn't even aware that any time had passed upon returning home; it was as though literally nothing had happened. I was there for what must have been less than a minute before being returned here. I remember seeing my daughter, and then suddenly I was here again, several months apparently having passed in that brief period back in the city.

It was a bit...bizarre, to say the least.
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[personal profile] pretentions 2012-12-10 05:00 am (UTC)(link)
Not immediately. Some of the conversations I had here have needed some reminders; those were mostly unpleasant conversations, however, that it would make sense that I would try to forget.

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